Toronto Skyscraper Photography | Modern Downtown Architecture
Looking Straight Up Through Toronto's Financial District Towers
Sometimes the most interesting view of a city is directly overhead.
I made this photograph in downtown Toronto's financial district, standing among some of the city's largest office towers and pointing the camera almost straight upward. From that position, the buildings stop behaving like individual skyscrapers. They become lines, angles and repeating grids pushing inward from every edge of the frame.
The open blue sky was essential. It creates an enormous central space while the towers surround it without ever completely closing it off. Each building has a different architectural rhythm—rows of square windows, reflective glass, pale stone, darker facades—and the extreme viewpoint exaggerates those differences.
I photographed the scene in 2014, but what interested me was less the identity of any particular tower than the geometry created by having so many of them concentrated in one part of Toronto. Several belong to Canada's major banks, making this cluster inseparable from the character of the city's financial core.
Looking upward also changes the sense of scale. At street level these buildings are part of a busy downtown environment. From directly below, they become almost abstract.
That transformation is what I wanted to capture. The photograph is recognizably Toronto, yet it is equally about modern architecture itself—the repetition, height, glass, steel and sharp perspective of a city built vertically around a small opening of sky.
© Dan Kosmayer, 2014
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