Every weekday...

[moon_custafer]

...my commute takes me past the head office of Enbridge Gas at 500 Consumers’ Road, and it’s really quite an attractive piece of late-‘60s architecture, but I can hardly find anything about it online (even the photo below came from an article that was about the neighbourhood in general).

You’d think fans of Brutalist concrete buildings would be all over something like this:

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[dewline]

A lot of buildings go unappreciated until they're demolished. This is still sad truth.

[sovay]

You’d think fans of Brutalist concrete buildings would be all over something like this

The colors of the concrete combined with the color of the company logo makes it look like that Geocities throwback generator that was circling the internet about a month ago.

[sabotabby]

Hah, I was about to pay them monies.

[notasupervillain]

That building is something. I don't know what, exactly. But something.

[moon_custafer]

I actually rather like the building, but it’s not the best photo.

Meanwhile, I realized this week that something about the (modern) architecture of the church across the street from my workplace throws off my sense of scale— I perceive it as smaller and closer to the curb than it really is. I realized this because some work was being done on the facade, and I kept thinking “Wow, that guy’s really tiny!”