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The Daily Photoist: November 9, 2009
Every so often (mostly when we get lazy, or leave our cameras at home), Torontoist will exploit the hard work of the talented photographers in our Flickr Pool and feature some of their photos of an event here on Torontoist. For now, we're calling it In The Pool, but we reserve the right to change the name later.
Photo of the Don Valley Brickworks (550 Bayview Avenue) by marty_pinker from the Torontoist Flickr Pool.
This past weekend's Doors Open was all but designed for our city's photographers: building after building, normally either entirely off-limits altogether, accessible only to its members or followers, or simply ridiculously expensive to see, simply...well...opening their doors and letting everyone in.
So far, dozens of photos have been submitted to Torontoist's Flickr pool, and shots continue to steadily come in. Since not all of us could make it out this weekend, we decided to feature some of the cooler shots here. We'll continue to update this thread with our favourites as they are submitted; photographers need only submit their photos to the pool, wait, and cross their fingers, or, if they're not on Flickr, e-mail the shots to us at tips@torontoist.com.
And, as if you needed a reason to get excited about next year's event, we have it on good word that the theme for 2008 will be places of worship. Sweet!
Carlu (444 Yonge Street)
By lightplay.ca.
Casa Loma (1 Austin Terrace)
By MissV110.
CBC Atrium (250 Front Street West)
By James Boston.
City Hall (100 Queen Street West)
By Iamkevin.
By sevenine.
Commerce Court (25 King Street West)
By mcgormit.
Distillery District Malt Kilns Tunnel (55 Mill Street)
By fotograf.416.
Elgin & Winter Garden Theatre (189 Yonge Street)
Photos by sevennine.
Fairmont Royal York (100 Front Street West)
Photo by inventor_77.
Horse Palace (140 Princes Boulevard)
By MonkeyfacedRatfink.
Lower Bay Station
By TerraS.
By terayakidonut.
Redpath Sugar Refinery (95 Queens Quay East)
By fotograf.416.
South Central Letter Processing Plant (969 Eastern Avenue)
By Squeakyrat.
St. Michael's Cathedral (65 Bond Street)
By Ride My Pony.
Toronto-Dominion Centre, 54th Floor (66 Wellington Street West)
Shots of First Canadian Place, Scotia Plaza, and the CN Tower by yoyoeq.
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uhh... commerce court, isn't industry spelled with a u?
Commerce Court is using the Roman alphabet, I believe; V's and U's were both used as U's, V's were also used for V's, I's were used for I's and J's, etc. You can find the same spellings in older English texts, like Quarto editions of Shakespeare's plays.
It's hard to carve curves into stone with a chisel, so they were minimized where possible -- Us become Vs, etc.
I'm always so underwhelmed by the CBC's atrium. The scale is great, but what they actually do at floor level just squanders the rest of the space. Any sort of structured seating/tables would be better than a handful of cheap plastic folding chairs and a mismatch of collapsable tables.
I figured it was also tradition and prestige ... great ancient Roman monuments also used Vs and no Us, since they didn't have that letter in their alphabet, so copying that practise gave them the same grand airs.