WINNIPEG: A Comprehensively Captured Core

[BrickJunkie]

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[BrickJunkie]

Thanks again for checking this jazz out. Here's some more from the core.

The refurbished Metropolitan theatre:
[IMG]042 by Brick Junkie, on Flickr[/IMG]

This sign is more interesting than the Mel Gibson flick:
[IMG]041 by Brick Junkie, on Flickr[/IMG]

Roofs on Main:
[IMG]040 by Brick Junkie, on Flickr[/IMG]

Yep:
[IMG]039 by Brick Junkie, on Flickr[/IMG]

Windows:
[IMG]036 by Brick Junkie, on Flickr[/IMG]

Lookin' west-ish:
[IMG]034 by Brick Junkie, on Flickr[/IMG]

Ellice Avenue, on the northern fringe of downtown:
[IMG]032 by Brick Junkie, on Flickr[/IMG]

The Exchange:
[IMG]030 by Brick Junkie, on Flickr[/IMG]

More Exchange:
[IMG]027 by Brick Junkie, on Flickr[/IMG]

I like to call this shot "Not Albuquerque:"
[IMG]025 by Brick Junkie, on Flickr[/IMG]

Lookin' east towards the ball park, or le parc de ball, as it's known nowhere:
[IMG]024 by Brick Junkie, on Flickr[/IMG]

This is also a thing that exists. Here I am again, shamelessly catering to my lamp fetish fans:
[IMG]023 by Brick Junkie, on Flickr[/IMG]

I hope this isn't getting redundant. Believe me, if we had more tall buildings in the core I'd post 'em:
[IMG]022 by Brick Junkie, on Flickr[/IMG]

A slightly different angle! And you thought I didn't have it in me:
[IMG]021 by Brick Junkie, on Flickr[/IMG]

I'm thinking about removing the flags from outside my foyer because they're looking a bit tacky. I'll probably replace them with zebra print banners and maybe a couple flags of bikini chicks on motorcycles:
[IMG]020 by Brick Junkie, on Flickr[/IMG]

The Alt Hotel is coming along, and the site roughly where the smaller red crane is situated is where a second highrise, a condo project called Glasshouse, will soon rise:
[IMG]017 by Brick Junkie, on Flickr[/IMG]

Looking north away from the core:
[IMG]016 by Brick Junkie, on Flickr[/IMG]

This was once described by Oprah as "a building:"
[IMG]014 by Brick Junkie, on Flickr[/IMG]

Groovy. Filled to the absolute brim with groove:
[IMG]011 by Brick Junkie, on Flickr[/IMG]

I like the cut of their jib:
[IMG]010 by Brick Junkie, on Flickr[/IMG]

This is also a structure:
[IMG]009 by Brick Junkie, on Flickr[/IMG]

True story:
[IMG]008 by Brick Junkie, on Flickr[/IMG]

Reprezentin' tha West End, yo:
[IMG]007 by Brick Junkie, on Flickr[/IMG]

Awww shucks:
[IMG]006 by Brick Junkie, on Flickr[/IMG]

I still have yet to meet a racist zebra:
[IMG]005 by Brick Junkie, on Flickr[/IMG]

It was on this strip that I first learned the hard way that BYOB does NOT mean "bring your own ball gags." Golly, was I red in the face:
[IMG]004 by Brick Junkie, on Flickr[/IMG]

Typical West End housing:
[IMG]003 by Brick Junkie, on Flickr[/IMG]

My 'hood:
[IMG]002 by Brick Junkie, on Flickr[/IMG]

This is about half a block away from my home, which is in a bit of a transitional area of the West End, and can sometimes be sketchy in the summer after dark. Having the mosque around is nice because they offer late services and have a lot of people going in and out at night, which creates a safer environment when one wishes to make a spontaneous jaunt to 7-11 because one is stoned and experiencing a severe pretzel deficit:
[IMG]001 by Brick Junkie, on Flickr[/IMG]

Thanks again for looking. You are, in the words of Thomas De Quincey, pretty fly for a Caucasian male. Unless you're not one, in which case you're still remarkably fly.

[DLLB]

Love the comments, and the pics are great as well.

[trebor204]

"Y'all might like to know that Winnipeg is the first (and to my knowledge still the only) Canadian city to have a 45 degree angle option on Google Maps. So if you're a geek like me and want to roam around the core a bit, I recommend clicking your way around Google. I realise this has nothing to do with the photo:"

Vancouver, Edmonton and Ottawa also have 45 degree angles on Street View.

[BrickJunkie]

Oh, cool. I was unaware of that! I'll have to check them out.

[Jeff]

love it and I want more!!

[gatt]

a very complete thread.