[PHOTO] Under the Sharp Centre for Design

The Sharp Centre for Design, a 2004 expansion of OCAD University further south on McCaul Street between Dundas Street West and Queen Street West, is one of the most striking buildings in Toronto. The Sharp Centre consists of a box four storeys off the ground, supported by a series of differently-coloured pillars positioned at different angles to the Earth. The tabletop analogy provided by Wikipedia works as well as any. This way, OCAD has more space while vital park and pedestrian space is kept.

[NEWS] Some Sunday links

• The Globe and Mail profiles the growing political tensions within Thailand, increasingly polarized between populist rural areas and conservative urbanites.


• io9 suggests that Russia is continuing to prepare for a long-range mission to Jupiter's moon Ganymede, to be launched in a decade's time.


• Open Democracy's Jamie Mackay describes how, in Venice, racism--especially anti-Asian racism--distracts and is used to distract Venetians from their city's decline as an actual inhabited areas.


• The photos heavy metal cowboys of Botswana must be seen.


• The Atlantic Cities has noted Facebook's utility in tracking global migration trends.


• Shanghaist observes that the Shanghai metro system is offering announcements in Shanghainese as well as in standard Chinese.


• The conclusion of a National Post columnist that Thor bests Superman--perhaps, by extension, Marvel besting DC--by virtue of having fun relatable characters is difficult to escape.


• Also in The Globe and Mail, the evolution of a bar in Bloordale--Bloor West and Lansdowne, just to my west--from a neighbourhood joint to something ore hipsterish is interesting.


• Should the abundance of vintage cars in Cuba, a guest writer at The Guardian writes, be seen merely as cute or rather as symptom of corrosive totalitarianism? (I say yes.)
  

[META] Any blogs you'd like to suggest adding?

I eagerly solicit suggestions.