2013 ColDay Series:

 

Part 1: Florida

Part 2: Savannah & Toronto

Part 3: 2007 Throwback

Part 4: Cincinnati

Part 5: Montreal & NYC

Part 6: Boston

Part 7: Los Angeles & Las Vegas

Part 8: Columbus

Part 9: Appalachia

Part 10: Chicago & Cleveland

 

 

Savannah

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Toronto

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Goodbye, from Detroit

 

These are excellent photographs ColDayMan!

Very nice! Nice contrast between humidity and...cold humidity :)

Darn...when I clicked on this I thought it said Sylvania and Toledo.

These made me miss living in Savannah. I lived there for four months while on co-op and wish I could go back. It's not a place I'd want to live permanently, but I really loved it there. Thanks for these great pictures.

Love those Chinatown pics at the end.

 

savannah is quite a contrast to blandronto lol!

 

savannah is quite a contrast to blandronto lol!

 

Savannah is different than most cities. But Toronto is not bland. They have some great architecture. I'm not sure if you have ever been there but go check out Queens West, Kings West, Yorkville, Kensington Market, Bloor Street, St Lawrence Market neighborhood, and Yonge Street. Miles and miles of historic buildings in active neighborhoods with unique uses. Throw in streetcars and subways and it's an amazing city.  They also have had recent building booms adding large new glassy residential towers which compliment the existing architecture. For buildings that can't be saved, you often see the full facade integrated into the design which provide for some cool places.

actually much of downtown Toronto is kind of bland-ish. Toronto grew so quickly over the past few decades and much of its history was demolished and replaced by boring, generic towers that sprouted like dandelions; and though it's undeniably a lively, bustling cosmopolitan city there's also a sort of middle class sameness which seems to permeate so many aspects of life there. (sadly this seems to be happening now in New York too :-P)

Savannah has that historic southern charm to it, which I like! Like that last shot you got of the RenCen! Great pictures of Savannah and Detroit!

actually much of downtown Toronto is kind of bland-ish. Toronto grew so quickly over the past few decades and much of its history was demolished and replaced by boring, generic towers that sprouted like dandelions; and though it's undeniably a lively, bustling cosmopolitan city there's also a sort of middle class sameness which seems to permeate so many aspects of life there. (sadly this seems to be happening now in New York too :-P)

 

I'm not sure how much you explored the neighborhoods, but from my experience of going all throughout the city, I don't find that to be true. They have countless distinct neighborhoods all with different vibes and income levels. All active.

actually much of downtown Toronto is kind of bland-ish. Toronto grew so quickly over the past few decades and much of its history was demolished and replaced by boring, generic towers that sprouted like dandelions; and though it's undeniably a lively, bustling cosmopolitan city there's also a sort of middle class sameness which seems to permeate so many aspects of life there. (sadly this seems to be happening now in New York too :-P)

 

I'm not sure how much you explored the neighborhoods, but from my experience of going all throughout the city, I don't find that to be true. They have countless distinct neighborhoods all with different vibes and income levels. All active.

 

you're probably right. I guess I was really focusing on how downtown looked. I used to visit family members in the Beaches area in the 60's when I was child (before it was trendy!). Lately I go to suburban areas and malls. The area around the Art Gallery of Ontario is interesting. But again, so many of the newer buildings look bland.  They leveled a lot of old structures to build Eaton Centre--including, sadly, the original Eaton's Department store (I guess you have be old to even remember that), which ended up going out of business anyway.

Is this "June" in FedEX's 2013 calendar:

 

of course there are many exceptions, the shard, etc., but generally speaking the modern canadian and other british empire bldgs are pretty unmemorably dull. and they like it that way. i just prefer the look of other booming cities like around asia and elsewhere. the look of the torontos, sydneys and their generic condos, fakey dundas squares and stamford,conn-on-the-docklands and all just dont do much for me. naturally, when you get down into the neighborhood level its a lot more appealing. maybe if they built a few supertalls like everybody else it would stick with me more.