aljuarez
November 22nd, 2011, 05:06 PM
Canada’s largest city is among the world’s most cosmopolitan. Although lacking the scenic beauty and sense of place of other large Canadian cities, it’s a fascinating place to walk around.
These images are and will be mostly of touristy places, and some of them are already a few years old, so maybe we could say this isn’t a thread for Torontonians!
Anyway, let’s get started with a few photos of the “Distillery”, a renovated area which has probably gone too far with its renovations and is threatened by the encroaching and not very sympathetic condo architecture around it. I’ve heard it dismissed as just a pretentious, glorified mall, too. I really liked it, though!
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These images are and will be mostly of touristy places, and some of them are already a few years old, so maybe we could say this isn’t a thread for Torontonians!
Anyway, let’s get started with a few photos of the “Distillery”, a renovated area which has probably gone too far with its renovations and is threatened by the encroaching and not very sympathetic condo architecture around it. I’ve heard it dismissed as just a pretentious, glorified mall, too. I really liked it, though!
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/162/374470564_48635b8062_b.jpg ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/43547009@N00/374470564/in/set-72157594508497622/)
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