[PHOTO] Hanging out at the Galleria
Visiting the Galleria Shopping Mall at Dupont and Dufferin last night to pick up some groceries, I snapped this picture as an addenum to the set I posted already. The main hall, looking past the small in-mall restaurant towards the Zellers anchor store, does indeed look--as a Flickr commenter suggests--as if the Galleria's designers had sought inspiration for the mall's design in the street. "The 1970s idea of returning to traditional streets for interior design is really evident in this photo with the cafe seating on a brick-like floor. Just Photoshop away the walls and ceilings, and add a Victorian streetscape and the sky, and it'll become clear." The problem with this is that apart from the lack of scenery, there's simply too much space; it's cavernous.
