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Showing posts with label Sky Dome. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sky Dome. Show all posts
Monday, February 14, 2011
Toronto Photo Walks: Entertainment District II
After the fire station we wandered south. Down to the Skydome area, I hate calling it the "Rogers Center", and back up to Queen street. Buildings, sculptures, and other things to see.
Next stop, lunch at The Rex with Dan Marks entertaining.
Next stop, lunch at The Rex with Dan Marks entertaining.
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Public Sculpture: Sky Dome and Environs Part 2
Well since there's enough stuff to talk about with just one more post I will get it over and done with today. After all I still have tons of stuff to show off. Especially everything from this fair city. Well, some areas are fair. Anyway onwards we go.
Not far from the Sky Dome, within a stone throw, is a memorial. It's a fair sized one and quite detailed. It commemorates all the Chinese rail workers, actually the name of it is "Memorial to Commemorate the Chinese Railway Workers in Canada". like I said it's just west of the sky dome and it's south of what's left of the rail lines that come into Toronto. Years ago the whole area between Front street and Lakeshore were rail lines for all the traffic going through Toronto. So the location is very suitable. Especially when you actually see the memorial.
I walked around the south west corner of the Sky Dome towards the east side. When I arrived at the space between the Dome and the CN Tower there was a wonderful sight awaiting my camera.
A large fountain with cut outs of fish in the basin and "ascending" the fall of water from the top. The title of the fountain is "Salmon run". It's a good set up with benches, seating at the bottom and trees around the area to provide shade. I found it to be a very nice place to relax for a bit along my way.
Finally I made my way towards the south side of the Metro Toronto Convention Center. There were two pieces here that I needed to capture for my trek to be complete for the day. The first one is rather appropriate, if not really simple. The piece is actually two pieces, both the same look flanking the entrance to the MTCC. The name of the work is "Snom'n". Yep, they are what the name sounds like, done in bronze so it will take a major catastrophe to melt these suckers. No more needs to be said about them except show pictures.
Behind the "Snowm'n" in the last picture you can see the final sculpture I was looking for. This one was done by the same sculptor of the snow men and is titled "Woodpecker Column". Yeah, he knows how to come up with original names for his work. At least you don't have to guess what he's trying to do with it. The name says it all, except you have to realize the scale. Each woodpecker is big, bigger then I am in fact, and there's three of them on this column designed to look like an insect infested trunk. Good details on the birds though. I will have to return with the proper camera to really document the detail on them. Later though.
Well that's it for this area, I think. I may have to double check some of my resources. If I have to return to the area no problem. Lots of stuff to see there when you are walking.
Paladin Phil
Not far from the Sky Dome, within a stone throw, is a memorial. It's a fair sized one and quite detailed. It commemorates all the Chinese rail workers, actually the name of it is "Memorial to Commemorate the Chinese Railway Workers in Canada". like I said it's just west of the sky dome and it's south of what's left of the rail lines that come into Toronto. Years ago the whole area between Front street and Lakeshore were rail lines for all the traffic going through Toronto. So the location is very suitable. Especially when you actually see the memorial.
I walked around the south west corner of the Sky Dome towards the east side. When I arrived at the space between the Dome and the CN Tower there was a wonderful sight awaiting my camera.
A large fountain with cut outs of fish in the basin and "ascending" the fall of water from the top. The title of the fountain is "Salmon run". It's a good set up with benches, seating at the bottom and trees around the area to provide shade. I found it to be a very nice place to relax for a bit along my way.
Finally I made my way towards the south side of the Metro Toronto Convention Center. There were two pieces here that I needed to capture for my trek to be complete for the day. The first one is rather appropriate, if not really simple. The piece is actually two pieces, both the same look flanking the entrance to the MTCC. The name of the work is "Snom'n". Yep, they are what the name sounds like, done in bronze so it will take a major catastrophe to melt these suckers. No more needs to be said about them except show pictures.
Behind the "Snowm'n" in the last picture you can see the final sculpture I was looking for. This one was done by the same sculptor of the snow men and is titled "Woodpecker Column". Yeah, he knows how to come up with original names for his work. At least you don't have to guess what he's trying to do with it. The name says it all, except you have to realize the scale. Each woodpecker is big, bigger then I am in fact, and there's three of them on this column designed to look like an insect infested trunk. Good details on the birds though. I will have to return with the proper camera to really document the detail on them. Later though.
Well that's it for this area, I think. I may have to double check some of my resources. If I have to return to the area no problem. Lots of stuff to see there when you are walking.
Paladin Phil
Monday, December 7, 2009
Public Sculpture: Sky Dome and Environs
Well it's the start of a new week and it's time for me to rouse out my muse and see what I can do this time. I am sorry about last week, for some reason I could not write a thing. Staring at the computer screen just wasn't prying any words out of me. Any way as I mentioned sometime last week or the week before, public art seems to be clustered at times in certain areas. The Sky Dome and Metro Toronto Convention Center is another area that it happens. Okay, it's not called the Sky Dome anymore, it's now The Rogers Center. It will always be the Sky dome to me, but that's beside the point.
Walking around the MTCC and Sky Dome there's quite a few pieces. One piece that is on Front street in front(?) of the MTCC is "Eloges de Fontenelle". It's two rather large piece made of steel and rusted, or is the correct term oxidized? One curves outward to the street, and one curves inward to the building. I can't say too much more than that and just go to the pictures.
The Sky Dome itself is a work of art and engineering. I have been inside it once or twice, and it has become rather iconic as well. Being based near the bottom of the CN Tower was a good choice in one sense, and been great fodder for comedians for a few reasons....
The Sky Dome itself has two parts or pieces on the north face. One on the north east corner called Audience, and the north west corner called Audience 2. Huge pieces made of fiberglass and painted bronze. They are what you would call typical people you would find in the stands at any sporting event. First the north east piece:
(I get a kick out of that third photo for some reason)
And now the north west piece:
There's a hotel in the Sky Dome and the entrance on the north side has a fountain in front of the main entrance. The it's more then a fountain though. The title of the piece is "Spiral Fountain". I know, real original, at least it looked more than a spiral at the least. A fair sized work in bronze, there was a smallish fountain as a part of it, but there were mostly plants and shrubs incorporated into the area around it.
Well, it looks like I have done a fair bit of writing for today. I will come back to this area, probably tomorrow, and show off some more pictures of this area. Still more to come. When all else fails and you have lost more muse, go walking. You may recover her along the way.
Paladin Phil
Walking around the MTCC and Sky Dome there's quite a few pieces. One piece that is on Front street in front(?) of the MTCC is "Eloges de Fontenelle". It's two rather large piece made of steel and rusted, or is the correct term oxidized? One curves outward to the street, and one curves inward to the building. I can't say too much more than that and just go to the pictures.
The Sky Dome itself is a work of art and engineering. I have been inside it once or twice, and it has become rather iconic as well. Being based near the bottom of the CN Tower was a good choice in one sense, and been great fodder for comedians for a few reasons....
The Sky Dome itself has two parts or pieces on the north face. One on the north east corner called Audience, and the north west corner called Audience 2. Huge pieces made of fiberglass and painted bronze. They are what you would call typical people you would find in the stands at any sporting event. First the north east piece:
(I get a kick out of that third photo for some reason)
And now the north west piece:
There's a hotel in the Sky Dome and the entrance on the north side has a fountain in front of the main entrance. The it's more then a fountain though. The title of the piece is "Spiral Fountain". I know, real original, at least it looked more than a spiral at the least. A fair sized work in bronze, there was a smallish fountain as a part of it, but there were mostly plants and shrubs incorporated into the area around it.
Well, it looks like I have done a fair bit of writing for today. I will come back to this area, probably tomorrow, and show off some more pictures of this area. Still more to come. When all else fails and you have lost more muse, go walking. You may recover her along the way.
Paladin Phil
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