Tuesday, June 23, 2015
Majestic view from three floors up, I think F. Fwd building on UBC campus.
Not quite a rooftop, but a stairwell window in I think Sprc Hs building.
And for good measure, a tiny piece of the fabled steam service tunnels:
Sometimes doors just aren't securely locked. I thought for sure this was my entrance into the whole labyrinth, but this tunnel ran the length of a building, and had a ladder leading up to another short corridor, which ended in a sprinkler valve room -- as I learned by the sign after I left it.
Saturday, June 20, 2015
A not-bad week of exploring.
After sitting in a gritty hottub at Sndmn Sgntr hotel in Richmond (which was nevertheless wide open to infiltrators), I made my way to Sea Island and got on this hotel's rooftop:
There were fire exit doors leading out to the roof marked "Emergency Exit: Alarm Will Sound" but they lied.
A few days later on a weekend afternoon, I strolled into a condo construction site in the heart of Metrotown carrying my bag of groceries. This was one of the last towers in the neighborhood that I hadn't been able to get inside yet. It was a somewhat roundabout entry from an adjacent parkade where only construction personnel are supposed to park, but on the weekend it was empty, it was easy to ignore the signs, and a naive person could quite plausibly just have found themselves inside the fencing, and decide to take a little look around. Or climb the 41 flights to the roof and drink in the view.
I didn't have even my crappy cell-phone camera, though.
A few days later, up at SFU, I found my way into the Nvrsty Thtre through an improperly closed door -- just that easy.
The basement seems semi-abandoned. There's a dirty dance studio, a couple of empty rehearsal rooms, a former recording studio (I think), and dingy dressing rooms.
I moved this chair into place from another room and played a couple of songs on this unloved piano:
I looked all around the upstairs theatre, too, backstage and even above stage in the catwalks, but the photos I took were too dark. But I sure enjoyed myself.
After sitting in a gritty hottub at Sndmn Sgntr hotel in Richmond (which was nevertheless wide open to infiltrators), I made my way to Sea Island and got on this hotel's rooftop:
There were fire exit doors leading out to the roof marked "Emergency Exit: Alarm Will Sound" but they lied.
A few days later on a weekend afternoon, I strolled into a condo construction site in the heart of Metrotown carrying my bag of groceries. This was one of the last towers in the neighborhood that I hadn't been able to get inside yet. It was a somewhat roundabout entry from an adjacent parkade where only construction personnel are supposed to park, but on the weekend it was empty, it was easy to ignore the signs, and a naive person could quite plausibly just have found themselves inside the fencing, and decide to take a little look around. Or climb the 41 flights to the roof and drink in the view.
I didn't have even my crappy cell-phone camera, though.
A few days later, up at SFU, I found my way into the Nvrsty Thtre through an improperly closed door -- just that easy.
The basement seems semi-abandoned. There's a dirty dance studio, a couple of empty rehearsal rooms, a former recording studio (I think), and dingy dressing rooms.
I moved this chair into place from another room and played a couple of songs on this unloved piano:
I looked all around the upstairs theatre, too, backstage and even above stage in the catwalks, but the photos I took were too dark. But I sure enjoyed myself.
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