ontario college of art and design
Originally uploaded by minhi.

i took these pictures on my visit to Toronto in june. goto my flickr site to see the rest. before my trip i remember seeing a picture of this in a design magazine, i think it was dwell (dwellmag.com, great modern design magazine), and i really wanted to find it. I didn’t remember the name, but the location was ‘near’ the CN Tower. This was my first mistake, I started by heading towards the CN Tower, wandering around a lot and never found it. I walked back to Chinatown where we were having dinner. There is a park a few blocks from Chinatown, as I sat down and looked up–there’s the building.

As i took these pictures i heard people say either: “Wow, that’s the coolest building!” or “That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen!” It’s polar for sure. I love how they built on top of the existing building instead of tearing it down or another building nearby.

Oh and it was freaking hot in Toronto that weekend, close to 100F, in Canada of all places, it was cooler in Virginia at the time!