There goes the neighborhood, as they say…

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.