Telephone Box Story
The fact that something is missing, as in this case, always suggests to me that that’s a story to be told. It’s like when you see someone missing a front tooth. Perhaps the tooth was knocked out in a bar brawl with two suitors fighting to decide which of them secured the heart of a woman they both loved.
Deceptive Imagery
The installation is known as the “curtain wall” mural or the “Flatiron” mural and is actually mounted on a huge steel armature fixed to the rear of the building.Many people mistakenly believe that the Toronto version of the Flatiron is a copy of the iconic New York Flatiron building which is located at 175 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. The truth is the Toronto building was completed first, in 1892, a full ten years before its Big Apple counterpart.
Ancient and Modern
For me, a building is never “just a building”. I love the way architecture evolves, and we can see evidence of that evolution all around us – we only have to look up! I just love the way this photograph perfectly encapsulates two buildings that stand at either end of an architectural time-line.
Illusion in Covent Garden
This is something that you don’t come across very often – a golden man sitting seemingly suspended in mid air. When I saw him at first there were so many people surrounding him I wondered …