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Thursday, December 13, 2007





















Royal Bank Building 2 King Street East
1913 1915 Ross & MacDonald
This firm also did Maple Leaf Gardens, College Park, The Royal York Hotel, Union Station and the Hotel Fort Gary in Winnepeg to name a few. This building was the largest in the Britsih Empire when built (20 Stories). They are oh so serious in the sheer monumentality of this building . It is the wonderful eccentricities I find very cool. Whats up with cow skulls nestled between the cornacopias and Corinthian collumns? The top floors appear to be disigned to be viewed from the same level. Some kind of a nod to the movers and shakers who would be looking at each other from twenty stories.


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