Doors open, was nice this past weekend.
I’ll cover some I the sites I got to visit later in the week. Today, however are a few shots of Windsor taken from the 14th floors of the CIBC building, home to the Windsor Club.
Excuse the glare on some of the photos, those are from the chairs in the restaurant…
Dieppe Park and the Bistro by the river, home of the fug beacon.
Who knew our pals at the Daimler Chrysler Chrysler, LLC tower had an outdoor deck in the sky…
Looking southeast over City Hall and the Barn…
Someone needs to get on the roof of the Travelodge and trim the bush…
Looking east along Riverside Dr. Look at all the paved area. It’s kind of sad so much land has been given over to cement and blacktop.
Looking west.
Looking down at the old railroad barge lifts. You can see the Spirit of Windsor Train, is wrapped up and undergoing renovation.
A panorama view looking south.
A view of the site of the new TD bank. You can see the Petretta Construction signs on the old Royal Bank building. A view from above gives you a good idea of the footprint of new building.
As I said above, stay tuned for more Doors Open sites later this week.
great shots Andrew!!
that’s one helluva veiw, nice! the city looks great from up there. dispite all that pavement our river front really is something to be proud of. once detroit finishes their side this will be some fantastic shoreline to see, especially if you were a visitor arriving by ship….er….no, people don’t do that here anymore. which is a shame we can’t set up excursion ferry services with the hundreds of ports in our immediate vicinity alone. that big ol festival plaza would be the perfect spot to build a ferry dock too…sigh.
that shot looking east instanly had me picturing that whole area alive with steam engines, tracks, smoke, wood, hundreds of ships in the river………
Great pictures, Andrew.
I think it’s nifty that the barge slips are still there. Reminds people that it was a working waterfront at one time. Those would have been the N&W slips, right? Memory says the CN/GTW slip was up river a bit.
Great pictures Andrew!
Wouldn’t be great if there was some viewing structure tower on the riverfront so all citizens and visitors could get great breath and scope of the riverfront and the river, not quite the CN Tower but tall enough for the view to have an impact.
I’m old enough to remember the working train ferries on the river and always thought that being able to watch them was an attraction of the river! Also the Canada Cement company, were the Plywood Palace use to be before it was the Holiday Inn.
There is nothing festival about the Festival plaza, nothing more than a gloried parking lot acting as a huge heat sump making the riverfront hotter than it actually is or needs to be. All that parking down there leads to great discomfort at night heating the air and making it unpleasant at best.
That one shot of the Royal Bank and Patrick O’Rayon’s, the future TDCanadaTrust building, I’m wondering if that includes the parking lot to the left plus the other buildings to the left of that as the new foot print for the TD building? And that is why a feeler email to purchase the parking lot was sent to city hall. Connect the parking to the new building and you have convenience plus!
Your readers might be interested in this article from the Globe and Mail Vancouver on what is happening with public spaces in that city.
THE CITY: A BIWEEKLY LOOK AT LIFE IN VANCOUVER
Maybe we need a horseshoe, not a square
TIMOTHY TAYLOR
ttaylor@globeandmail.com
September 29, 2008
There was a packed house on Tuesday last week as the Vancouver Public Space Network launched its new design competition, Where’s the Square? Open to both professionals and the public, the competition solicits designs for something Vancouver presently lacks: a prominent, popular, public square.
And: “And, judging from crowd response last week, it seems clear that a lot of Vancouverites are dissatisfied with how their city contributes to this aspect of public life. In fact, if a single conviction united the audience, it was probably captured by urbanist Lance Berelowitz, who said that such a public space in Vancouver should be considered “a necessity, not an amenity.”
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080929.LTAYLOR29/TPStory/TPEntertainment/BritishColumbia/
Charles Clark Square must be the loneliness place in Windsor besides the downtown.
I wonder if the new TD bank will also be pedestrian friendly IE: Doors on both Pitt and Chatham Streets for walkability? Will we continue to see large city blocks that have no access like some of the other banks (RBC)?
Would like to see pics of inside the Windsor Club itself. Always wondered about it.
Shawn, the Windsor Club isn’t that spectacular inside. It’s nice, but not “OMG, so awesome.” It’s rather dated, actually. Sone mice pictures hanging on the walls, however. And the creepy wall of past presidents, of course.
The new bank is really nice, but my biggest gripe, is still no USD bank machines! WTH?
I miss Patrick O’Ryan’s :'(