Interesting... and a bit scary!

You know what makes this entire shot for me?
Two things: The reflection with the tree; and that little yellow pipe. I don't know why, it just does. Beautiful capture (as always)

such a great out view, bust really scary to be inside!

beautiful shot.

it really makes me wish the reflection was in the other window, instead of those bricks. the image feels unfinished, i guess.

great detail.

Out of interest, did Toronto also have a window tax at some point? Or is Mock Georgian a Toronto staple?

For those of you not in the know, in the UK, many Georgian-era buildings (1750ish to 1850ish, coinciding with the reign of Mad King George III and George IV) had windows bricked up due to a rather draconian measure the governemnt of the itme introduced which was a way of calculating tax on houses based on the number of windows the house had.

Since then, many houses built in a so-called "mock-georgian" style have literally had fake bricked-up windows installed, that is they build the external window decoratiosn (such as, in this case, the arch and sill, and have an indentation where the window was *supposed* to be.

Of course, this could genuinely be a bricked-up window, but that wouldn't let me wax on about dead kings.

No window tax here...the city's not that old! This is a rather decayed industrial area that is now being fixed up...somewhat!

Alice

A little aside to Alice -- the 44 buildings that make up the Distillery District date from 1832 through 1850 -- so they are indeed Georgian!
It is obvious the window was bricked up because of internal needs, as the buildings were in use by Gooderham and Worts up to about 1996.

Great shot Sam. I love the texture effect of the different kinds, and colours, of the bricks used, with the yellow pipe accent!

This building is winking at me. Very anthropomorphic.

the longer i look at this pic the more i like it. the 4 different types of brick and stone really appeals to me. and i can't find a single thing to make fun of! grrrrrrr.... you make my life so tough, sam.

I know a lot of windows used to be broken in this area as the buildings are abandoned/no longer in use. If they boarded up the windows, people could easily get inside and take up residence. That's my guess.

wow! beautiful

Great picture! Very interesting and it does seem unfinished.

oh! a brick window! kewl..

Thanks Moof, for tt bit on window tax. tt's reallie interesting. fancy tt! calculating tax based on the no. of windows!

I love stories.. and Sam's works always makes me wonder abt the stories behind the subject

This is fantastic... Love the different brick types, and the contrast between the two windows.

Two windows: Two worlds.

Vision Contrast..freedom ..when light is reflected and when is not!
Nice
Amir