To this I would add Chinatown which is on Spadina south of College. If you get off at the Queen's Park subway station and walk west towards Spadina you can also walk around UofT's St George Campus which has some interesting older buildings, which can be entered and explored. The campus is on the north side of College, hard to miss (I work there). So pm me if you want to visit and chat. I can give you a quick tour of the campus.
Chinatown borders Kensington market which is slightly West by a block. Kensington market is kind of funky and colorful. If in that area I recommend eating at Pho Hung just north of Dundas on Spadina. Great Vietnamese food and relatively cheap.
The downtown core has some pretty significant larger buildings including 5 designed by Mies van der Rohe. There is cocktail lounge at the top of one of them which is attached to the restaurant Canoe. The prices for a cocktail can be high ($16 or so) but the view of the skyline is quite interesting as the sun sets. You look south over the Lake and the islands. I go there once a year when I want to spill drinks accidentally over the Toronto elite (ok only happened once and the guy laughed about it. He owns the Argonauts, our local football team).
Toronto Harbor has some art exhibits which are also worth checking out. Most of the exhibits allow photography and the staff are students. Really lovely people.
Also the Art Gallery of Toronto has some interesting stuff including photography so good for a rainy day. The building itself looks like a glass blimp and kind of neat for capturing reflections of the traffic or the sky. It is just south of the St George campus on McCaul. Further south is the odd OCAD structure (looks like a pencil box propped up in the air by, er, pencils). And further south is Queen street which is quite vibrant and worth a trot along for street photography.
Polson Pier is great for sunsets. You will need to take a cab probably because it is hard to get to by public transit although there are some buses. No much else around there to be honest so I would plan that for the sunrise only. It is quite popular.
ray5 said:
Hi,
Visiting Toronto this summer. Any recommendations:
-What points of interest to photograph there?
- Best places to get the skyline? I see that Toronto Islands are nice to do that but which one? I will be staying in the city so how do I get there for dawn shots? Is there any transportation at that time to go from one island to the other?
Thanks,
Ray
