At 193 Yonge Street, to be exact. The old Ryrie Building (right across from the Eaton Centre, for any locals reading this). It's an older office building (by our standards), probably about 120 years old. It has thankfully survived many decades of neglect, and has recently been nicely restored, and is now filled with trendoid commercial tenants.
The beautiful mosaic tiled lobby floor has been restored, including the intertwined swastika borders.
We've all been conditioned (at least I have) to be revulsed by the sight of the swastika (it's come to symbolize evil), and it's really quite unnerving to see it's use in public, even though rationally I know that this use predated it's conversion by the Nazis by many decades.
cheers, frank
"The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer
From: Bob Walkden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
<snip> You can see it in use in the same way on a lot
of older buildings here in Britain and other parts of Europe. Ironically, given the Nazi association, the building in Whitehall, London, next to the Cenotaph is decorated with carved swastikas.
-- Cheers, Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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