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  • Thread starter billy corgan19982
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Good old-fashioned steps work well too!
 
April 24, 2008

The still-messy subway station entrance from above.
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Looking from the interior of Dundas Station towards the new entrance to TLS. Urp!
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Looking from TLS toward the new Dundas station entrance. Oh my. Very Atrium-On-Bay for the new millenium.
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Exposed infrastructure carried to a non-aesthetic extreme.
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Same look - Everywhere! - One level below street level. Quite Brazil.
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Still unfinished - escalator down to two levels below street.
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Up the escalator to the first level above the street (FutureShop), then up another level to arrive at this...a very foodcourt area. Much continued greyness and exposed whatnot.
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Riding up la escalator from two levels above the street to three...
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Going up to the theatre level. Lordy. More demi-industrial drear. At this point, I wasn't sure if we had wandered into Toronto Life Square or The Don Jail Cinema.
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Happily, right behind us, the theatre lobby looked fanatastic. Spacious, elegant, colourful, clear, fun and comparatively civilized.
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Heading back down the escalator: Escher meets Piranesi at the mall.
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I like the Brazil reference. Ducts, ducts, everywhere ducts.

(What a horror show this building is.)
 
MetroMan said:
I was going to create a topic to discuss Dundas Station but I don't see the point since the "Metropolis" topic seems to be a catch all for retail and transportation in the Y&D area...
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Ryerson does plan to add a new entrance to Dundas Station at Gould when it redevelops the Sam The Record Man site - AFAIR - so in half a dozen years that pinched-off entrance at TLS will be less busy.


Thanks for the photo-tour CN!

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syn said:
The carpeting in the theatre looks pretty bad.
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I wonder if it's intentionally bad and busy. I remember hearing somewhere that in casinos they purposely use fussy designs to stop people from looking down. Instead you're supposed to be looking at all the exciting ways to lose your money. And in this case, you're supposed to be looking at all of the 10 dollar add-ons (water/popcorn, etc.) to go with your movie.

Except for that lobby, the rest of the place is quite a let down.
 
casaguy said:
I wonder if it's intentionally bad and busy. I remember hearing somewhere that in casinos they purposely use fussy designs to stop people from looking down. Instead you're supposed to be looking at all the exciting ways to lose your money. And in this case, you're supposed to be looking at all of the 10 dollar add-ons (water/popcorn, etc.) to go with your movie.

Except for that lobby, the rest of the place is quite a let down.
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If that's the case why would the carpet be busy? That means you end up looking at it for no reason.
 
syn said:
If that's the case why would the carpet be busy? That means you end up looking at it for no reason.
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The point is that you don't look at it. They make it purposefully busy (i.e. offensive to the eyes) so that you're not inclined to look down.
 
grey said:
The point is that you don't look at it. They make it purposefully busy (i.e. offensive to the eyes) so that you're not inclined to look down.
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I don't see how that makes sense. If you want people to look at the other clutter (advertisements, etc.) why would you introduce even more clutter?

I suppose I can see that they don't want people looking down to not look at advertising, but it seems that they're creating unnecessary competition with more clutter.

I've been to theatres with fairly minimalist carpeting and looking down hasn't seemed to be a problem.
 
Busy carpet in movie theatres helps to hide fallen popcorn, pop spills and tissues that people drag out on their feet from the theatre, or bathroom
 
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