Sunday 21 June 2009

The Big Cover-up

The Hudson's Bay building (c.1895) at the corner of Yonge and Queen is undergoing a facelift.
But what you see here isn't the actual building.

It took me a while to realise that the whole building facade is a giant suspended image of what the building will look like when the renovations are finished, and that the actual work is going on behind the curtain.

9 comments:

  1. Wow this is very interesting. I've never seen such a thing :)

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  2. A good idea, hope it looks the same when they take it down!!

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  3. That's pretty neat. I've not seen any construction sites before that "advertise" what they're gonna look like when they're done. I love that idea. Thanks for showing it to us.

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  4. This is now the fashion also here in Paris! Nice, espcially when the reconstruction takes long time!

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  5. Trompe L'oeil. It's one of my favorite styles. That is a clever way to maintain a city's beautiful facade, while doing the less appealing, but necessary industrial things underneath.

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  6. That's cool. It's time I spent a day in the city again.

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  7. That's an amazing thing they have done---I've never seen that before---Very Very Clever.

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  8. That's fantastic. A huge piece of art.

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