*miserychick is actually happy

Actually, there isn’t much to reminisce about this neighborhood or this building, as I haven’t really known it for that long, and it already seem to have lost all old-style charms to modernity a while ago. From the time I moved into the ‘hood (of upscale restaurants, real estate and ads agencies, and fancy “loft-living” condos), this building had always been a sales center for the new condo coming up in its place. It had a rather obnoxious larger-than-you-need billboard that was half an eye-sore and half typography experiment; it looked like this (from another angle):

(from Flickr)

Yeah.. I mean, nothing to be missed, really.

The so-called housing market downturn that’s effecting the U.S. has certainly not reached Canada, or at least not Toronto, where luxury/trendy condos are being built like they’re going out of style. The same developer is busy building 3 more high rises in my 1-city-block vicinity. All along this street is probably 30 or 40 more buildings.

Today I watched the tractor pulled down big pieces of cement from a building floor, tearing apart this huge thing like it was play-dough. There’s something mesmerizing about demolition, maybe because it’s a way of saying how these brick and mortar, these things we use for shelter and work place, are just as temporary as anything else.

Posted on Tuesday, 19 August 2008 at 23:22 PDT