Conserving the Past

Conserving the Past

Originally uploaded by Leo Laporte.

BCE Place in Toronto.

This is with my camera phone so the quality isn’t great – but I couldn’t resist the juxtaposition of this old building embedded inside a modern atrium.

To me this is the epitome of modern Toronto.

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