London's icon turns blue

Echoing her surroundings
London, ON
March 2019
This photo originally shared on Instagram

I've lost track of how many times I've stood on the sidewalk to take a photo of this particular building*.

One London Place is our city's tallest building, and for years stood dominant atop our deliberately modest skyline. She's being increasingly hemmed in these days by an accelerating tall-building building boom in the surrounding neighborhood, but she'll never lose her spot as this city's central beacon.

As such, she has quite the influence on anyone who cares about this city. She signifies home, as well as what makes us unique. Nothing here sets height records, or rivals the forest of super-tall urbanity of major Canadian centres like Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal. And that's the point. We're a bit smaller, quieter, more humble, more likely to reflect what's going on around us rather than draw attention to ourselves.

So on this otherwise unassuming lunchtime walk, I peered into the sky for an unfamiliar look at a familiar old friend, to see what she was up to, and how she chose to reflect the city.

Doubtless the next day she would look different again. Which explains why I keep returning here.

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* Here, here, and here.