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Picasso, untitled
Art tourists come to Chicago to visit the city's best-known museum, the renowned Art Institute. But the architecture tourists have their own gallery. In between the grandeur of the many modernisms that make up Chicago's great buildings can be found gems like this untitled sculpture by Pablo Picasso, at Murphy, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill's 1965 Richard J. Daley Center.
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island in the strait
One of the smaller of many small islands in the Georgia Strait, which lies between Vancouver Island and the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. Even the largest of the car ferries that ply the waters of the Straight of Georgia give grand views of the small islands that dot it.
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crossing the Strait of Georgia on the Vancouver Island ferry
One of the easiest ways to see the Strait of Georgia is from one of the many car ferries that cross it, this one between Nanaimo, on Vancouver Island, and Horseshoe Bay, near Vancouver. Carless passengers are welcomed on board as well.
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West Queen West clothing boutiques
Toronto's West Queen West -- a stretch of Queen Street from about Bathurst Street west to Dufferin -- is home to many clothing boutiques, many featuring Canadian designers.
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gates to Trinity-Bellwoods Park
Where Trinity-Bellwoods Park is today, near one end of Toronto's West Queen West neighbourhood, was the original site of Trinity College. Today Trinity College is part of the University of Toronto to the northeast, but its original gates still stand along Queen Street.
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Victorian storefronts along Toronto's West Queen West
Most of these three-storey buildings along Queen Street West in Toronto function as they have since they were built in the late 19th century: with a store on the main floor and apartments or, occasionally, small offices on the second and third floors.
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The Gladstone Hotel
Toronto's Gladstone Hotel was built in 1889 and has been a functioning hotel ever since. Today the renovated hotel offered artist-designed rooms and a full floor of exhibition space, as well as hosting renowned karaoke nights and welcoming former residents at the bar.
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an evening date at the Strand Bookstore
The Strand Bookstore is a New York City must-do for book lovers from all over.
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Fort York, as rebuilt after the War of 1812
The Fort York officers' quarters (1826) and, in the distance, one of two 1813 blockhouses.
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the gates of Fort York
The gates of Fort York, in what is now Toronto. Fort York was largely destroyed in the War of 1812 and was immediately rebuilt.
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Stephanie Fysh has been a member since 5 January 2008 and goes by StephanieFysh.
Currently in Toronto, Canada.
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I am a Toronto-based editor and photographer with a thing about the erotics of the built world, of our selves, and of the photograph. And I am going to see the whole world before I die.
You can also find Stephanie at htpp://www.stephaniefysh.com.
