Toronto L-Tower | 204.82m | 58s | Cityzen | Daniel Libeskind

Hydrogen said:
...(This) building ... (is) akin to a giant white boot from a 1960's Russ Meyer movie. ....
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Earlier I saw this tower's boot-like shape as homage to 1970s disco, now we have the latest: this time to a 1960s boot, perhaps a “go-go†boot, via the filmic reference to Russ Meyer.

Hydrogen - I have to give this one to you as one of the most creative variations yet on the boot imagery. It has become difficult for me to rid that image whenever I think of this tower. Much like a tune you cannot remove from your head. Fascinating what each of us sees in this Alien skyscraper shape, in order to make sense of it.
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I guess most have heard this or saw this by now, the Humming Bird Centre is now called Sony Centre. Another corporate takeover adding their corporate name. Remember when Rogers Centre was called Skydome?
 
Ed007Toronto said:
Considering O'Keefe and Hummingbird were also corporate names what difference does it make?
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There was some CFRB commentator on the weekend that devoted an entire segment of the show to this renaming issue, pretty much echoing rp07's complaint and railing against City Hall for selling the city out for a cheap buck (I think they might have mentioned a 'socialist mayor' as well). I thought about phoning in, but decided it wasn't worth the effort.
 
rp07 said:
I guess most have heard this or saw this by now, the Humming Bird Centre is now called Sony Centre. Another corporate takeover adding their corporate name. Remember when Rogers Centre was called Skydome?
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It's always had a corporate name. O'Keefe and Hummingbird were both surrendered their corporate naming rights to someone else.

EDIT: Didn't see Ed had already mentioned it.
 
I'm not certain how seeing Sankai Juku at the Sony Centre will make it any less rewarding than seeing them at the Hummingbird Centre. I go there to see what's happening inside, not what's happening on the exterior signage.
 
I admit that when I first heard the name, O'Keefe Centre, I thought it was named for the famous painter Georgia O'Keefe.

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This made more sense to me at the time than being named after a beer company.

Bill
 
Mongo said:
I admit that when I first heard the name, O'Keefe Centre, I thought it was named for the famous painter Georgia O'Keefe.


This made more sense to me at the time than being named after a beer company.

Bill
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The O'Keefe Centre's naming rights were not sold to O'Keefe. The O'Keefe Brewing company built the centre with their own money. It was known as the House that beer built. I believe the City took over ownership in the late 60s.
 
And the O'Keefe name lives on as O'Keefe Lane behind Metropolis. That's where the brewery was located up to some time in the 60's.
 
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