I have a weekly client meeting at the Oval Tower and decided to use it as an oportunity to do some shopping at the Mediamarkt and take some photos to share. Photos of the WTC would take effort but maybe one day. :) The Oval Tower has weird elevators. At the bottom, you select from a number...

I thought I would share some photos showing how the Dutch handle the office park. There is, of course, a mixed bag of some good buildings and some boring crap. In that sense, I think it's the same as North America. It seems like there is always an effort to do something creative to the...

I wanted to post this in the Gayest Car thread but it got locked due to silliness.

i'm assuming these are rhetorical questions.

Thanks AP.

Stump question: when they shut down construction originally, was there anything already built beyond the stump that was then removed? Had any of the steel skeleton been installed already and then torn down when construction stopped?

I smelled more pot on the street in Toronto than Amsterdam. In Amsterdam, it is largely confined to the coffee shops which are well ventilated - and the coffee shops are filled with tourists. Sorry to derail this thread.

If you live in Toronto, you already do.

I've always been a little confused about where exactly the West Don Lands, East Bayfront and the Portlands developments were and how they fit together so this rendering is very helpful. I would have liked to see the master plans for each site attempt to create self-contained car-free...

I hadn't even mentioned my plans for Toronto's red light district.

If you want to attract Americans, you need to offer them something that they'll never be able to get at home. My suggestion is Legalized Pot.

Photos from today's Pride Parade. Parade route: I'm pretty open minded but some things are just wrong: Some floats are less...

If the PATH is going to make it to the ACC and Maple Leaf Square, maybe this would be a good opportunity to tunnel it under Lakeshore and the Gardiner. I can't see any other buildings it could attach to now but one day all those parking lots will be gone. For now they could just have a...

They should pump fake steam out of vents to create a Blade Runner sort of feel. I hope they have more success installing the ticker here than they did at the torch.

irish people are scary looking. actually they look like drawings by Chester Brown.

I've walked by a thousand times but I've never actually been in that greenhouse. Anybody? Is it the sort of place you could sit and read or is it a - go in, walk in a circle, leave - type of place? Nice photos by the way. The park can be quite busy at lunch but once it's dark it's...

I come here to get a break from the Dutch!! ;) Toronto Honolulu Tokyo

then of course, there's the Christmas parade and before you know it, it's too cold to put up signs - let's wait for spring. we've seen how these people operate. :)

Umbra seems to be quite popular here in unconservative Amsterdam. Most of the hip (middle-end) furniture and accessory stores that I've been into carry it quite extensively.

When I was younger, a friend and I once bought a bag of chocolate covered coffee beans and fed them to the squirrels. That was fun. These days, I would probably consider it cruel to get a bunch of squirrels all hepped up on caffeine and sugar but back then it was fun. Last summer, a...