Downtown on a cold November evening

[wyliepoon]

Lots of photos, plus a few "video postcards" of Downtown Toronto...

Church Street

Ryerson Student Centre, O'Keefe House

Nasty Ryerson Library

Not-so-nasty Ryerson Continuing Education Building

Yonge Street and Gould Street...

Yonge Street and Gerrard Street...

Christmas decoration inside College Park

Yonge Street and College/Carlton Street...

Dundas Square...

Christmas decorations at the Eaton Centre...

Crossing Queen Street to see The Bay's window displays...

Then head down Bay Street...

Back to Dundas Square...

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Videoclips! (I suggest you open them in a new window or a new tab (Firefox))

Yonge and College 1

Yonge and College 2

Yonge and Gould

Streetcar crossing Yonge and Dundas

Yonge and Dundas 2

Dundas Square panorama

Eaton Centre interior

Eaton Centre interior 2

Eaton Centre interior 3

Eaton Centre interior 4

Christmas windows at The Bay Queen Street

Bay and King

Bay and King 2

 

[ceytie]

purdy pics...all they need is a little snow

 

[ganjavih]

Great pics, wylie. I see this stuff every day but it's still fun to see the photo tours. A couple of very pleasant surprises, the Ryerson Continuing Ed building and the new Yonge St. facade of the Atrium on Bay:

Very nice! I was unsure about that copper cladding at first but it seems to work well against that charcoal background.

Huge improvement to the Yonge St. facade, including the backlit advertisements and the new brightly lit retail space at the corner of Yonge and Edward which was dead space before. The Atrium on Bay is slowly learning to respect the street.

 

[Copper1212]

^ whoa, when did that happen?? Works very well in that area. Simple things can be so satisfying.

 

[CanadianNational]

Great pictures, thanks for posting them!

 

[officedweller]

Great pics - thanks!

Aren't there offices behind those banners at Atrium on Bay?

 

[gbelan]

i love this time of the year with all of the holiday decorations

 

[TO Tower Fan]

Thanks for the cool pics Wylie. How do you guys like the decorations on Yonge compared to last year? I really like this year's version a lot more as it complements the decorations at dundas square much better. Toronto has definitely moved things up a notch in the christmas decorations when compared to last year....I just hope they improved on the decorations on University because they are usually quite pitiful for our grand avenue.


This year:

Last year:

 

[Chuck100]

I love the winter so much. One of my favourite things to do is go skating at NPS, then walk home along University Avenue during a light snowfall.

 

[EnviroTO]

Thanks for the cool pics Wylie. How do you guys like the decorations on Yonge compared to last year? I really like this year's version a lot more as it complements the decorations at dundas square much better.

I'm not sure if that is sarcasm saying that the decorations match the Dundas Square ones which are equally unimpressive or not. When I first saw the decorations I figured it was a cost saving measure by leasing out July 4 holiday decorations for the winter months. I understand a blue and white snowflake... but what are the red lights doing and what are the box shapes? At least last year's decorations made sense.

 

[Ed007Toronto]

I was at a function at the Carlu when you took those pics of College Park.

 

[Christopher DeWolf]

i like the two photos ganjavih pointed out for the same reasons. the new ryerson building is really striking. i wonder how it will look when the copper oxidizes, though.

 

[TO Tower Fan]

I'm not sure if that is sarcasm saying that the decorations match the Dundas Square ones which are equally unimpressive or not. When I first saw the decorations I figured it was a cost saving measure by leasing out July 4 holiday decorations for the winter months. I understand a blue and white snowflake... but what are the red lights doing and what are the box shapes? At least last year's decorations made sense.

I don't think they're boxes, but it symbolizes rays of light coming out from the stars. And they always look like boxes either:

 

[simply Dan]

Great pics! The big neon LG ad at Dundas Square hasn't been lit for weeks now! I wonder what's going on with that...