In 1970s Toronto the architectural style was brutalist, a mix of intimidating concrete boxes and drab gray fortresses. The high/low point of the style is Robarts library, a soul-crushing monster with split-level windows patterned after a medieval castle. It seems to me that the building in my photo, recently completed in the new Library District on lower Bathurst, is a modern steel and glass interpretation of brutalist architecture, and in particular of Robarts unequally-sized conjoined forms.
Month: October 2013
Goat
It’s Friday. So here’s a picture of a goat scratching itself. Taken recently at a farm in Uxbridge, Ontario.
Amanita Hiaku
Three Amanitas
Glisten on a dewy morn
Warts licked off by rain
Urban wilderness
The city has its own kind of wilderness. Not the parks or trails. These are trimmed and manicured spaces, no more natural than a bonsai tree (or kitten, remember those?). The city’s wild spaces are the product of decay and neglect, where entropy rules and anarchy prevails.
Blue Man Down
In this memorial, each column represents one member of Toronto’s tragically ill-fated Blue Man group.
Amanitaville
Young Fly Agaric pokes up out of the moss.
Woods here and there
Sometimes, if I wander outside into the woods of Muskoka, I can imagine that I’m really back in the Pacific Northwest. Especially in the fall, on a cool wet day, when the moss on the ground is damp and the forest is filled with fungus of all kinds and the smell of rich earth.
Lower Bathurst
Construction near lower Bathurst.
Things you should not be doing
Words of wisdom on a bright fall day.