Recently I got a chance to go to Toronto on a short trip. Thanks to Usefilm and Orzechowski's photo series on the BCE Place, I could learn of this beautiful architecture. The photo was taken on a cloudy day (there was even frost outside). So the lights or colours in the photo are hardly satisfying or comparable to those in Orzechowski's photos. The red strip in the lower left hand corner is also distracting. However, apart from resizing and a bit of sharpening, I haven't tweaked the photo because I want to show the performance of modern "idiotic" compact digital cameras here.
BCE stands for Bell Canada Enterprises (Inc.), a Canadian telecommunications company that developed the BCE Place. See the following press release for reference:
The BCE Place consists of two towers connected by a glass atrium. Interestingly, the two towers are named the Canada Trust Tower and the Bay Wellington Tower, which have B and C as their names' first letters. Also, part of the first tower all of the second one are now owned by the Brookfield Commercial Properties, which also have B and C in its name.
The BCE Place is my second most favourite aritecture in Toronto (the first is the City Hall, which is captured in my other photo "Bird" (http://www.usefilm.com/Image.asp?ID=1088712). I like it not only because of the beautiful steel-glass structure of its atrium, but also of the architecture underneath. Just walk into the glass atrium to take a look. You will be pleasantly surprised.
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{K:37420} 4/19/2006
