pausation

a collection of things
that make sharon pause.

this is where i archive
items i find, like, and make
me think.

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archimaps: The O’Keefe Centre in the 1960s, Toronto aka the humingbird centre, aka the sony centre for the performing arts, aka the l tower podium. so that’s what it looks like originally…
♥ 53 13th June 2012
R.C. Harris Water Treatment Plant, Toronto - Arthur Goss via
♥ 58 18th January 2012
acidadebranca: Black & White Illustrations [732] betonbabe: SEVEN PHASES IN THE EVOLUTION OF THE OLD LONDON BRIDGE, 1209-1831
♥ 80 15th January 2012
Happy Christmas! High Park, Toronto 1910 via 
♥ 7 25th December 2011
oieouio: archiveofaffinities: Mies van der Rohe, Group of Three Court Houses, Project, 1938 
♥ 105 22nd December 2011
archiveofaffinities: Buckminster Fuller, Manhattan Island Dome, ca. 1959 
♥ 332 7th December 2011
Toronto City Hall, Viljo Revell, 1965 looking through a property data map at the office from the 1980s and found this drawing on the front of the data map index.
♥ 25 7th December 2011
digging again in the toronto city archives website.. Fire insurance plan showing extent of fire, Charles Edwin Goad, 1904, MT 799
♥ 24 7th December 2011
wandering around the city of toronto archives… city of toronto survey 1950 key map
♥ 11 6th December 2011
exploratorio: Reality Properties: Fake Estates, Little Alley Block 2497, Lot 42, 1974 gordon matta-clark
♥ 10 25th May 2011
urban topographies: cuts and patches via omnibus It’s archaeology without physical excavation: the cuts and patches register different eras of construction and settlement, the movement of water, the movement of pedestrians. For a long time, in research and practice, I have been focusing on what I call constructed ground. This focus enables inclusion of living systems in my research and design work without segregating them into an exclusive domain of “nature.” The idea of constructed ground registers the fact that the ground of any site is not background; it isn’t flat; it isn’t a tabula rasa — it is always already constructed. Some of the specific thinking behind these images emerged in 2004, when I was fortunate to be in Rome as a Fellow at the American Academy. My project, which initially focused on individual palazzos and villas, had to do with interrelationships of geometry and topography in architecture. I also began to look at these interrelationships at a more granular scale, focusing on infrastructure rather than buildings. I took hundreds of photographs of the remarkable drains and channels in streets and courtyards, which speak to the role stormwater can play in shaping urban space. -linda pollack
♥ 10 3rd May 2011
unreal. 107 years ago today. looks like a collage.
♥ 1 19th April 2011
one year ago today… At 8:04 p.m. on April 19th, 1904 (107 years ago today) a police constable on patrol in downtown Toronto reported the sight of flames shooting skyward from the Currie Building, which was located at 58 Wellington (near where the current TD Centre now sits). Spreading rapidly, by 4:00 a.m. an area of approximately 20 acres was destroyed by flames. To put that into some perspective, Ground Zero, the site of the former World Trade Centre in New York City, is about 16 acres. via blogto
19th April 2011
 

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