yeah of course i know where the power rangers talk to zordon - ThreadSky

kapustadave.bsky.social•11 hours ago

I loved studying in there.

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northernlights7.bsky.social•18 hours ago

The peacock throne, students at UofT call Robarts.

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trevorpk.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Its nickname is Fort Book.

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edwardtoronto.bsky.social•18 hours ago

It's effin brutal there

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redneckwithmorals.bsky.social•19 hours ago

It looks like a concrete swan pooping. From this angle

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no-borders-here.bsky.social•4 hours ago

I used to work in this building. Its nickname is "Fort Book." The photo makes it look impressive and almost stylin', but every time they mopped the floors, the tiles came loose.

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jcsalterego.bsky.social•4 hours ago

well it's not Fort Secured Tile

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no-borders-here.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Those Canadians and their insistence on truth in advertising (and substandard epoxy)

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pgtk.bsky.social•6 hours ago

The J Edgar Hoover FBI building is brutalist.

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laurafrost.bsky.social•1 hour ago

UOT library.

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msmagicdishes.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Yea, that’s Brutalist

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thedownrockrecords.bsky.social•18 hours ago

I've never seen this building from this angle. Surprised I've never seen it in a sci-fi/fantasy production

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howardbeale.bsky.social•10 hours ago

looks like the building that Joe banks in Joe versus the volcano works at

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packardsgoose.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Their beta site is The Ellicott Complex at SUNY Buffalo.

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strongasboar.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Minecraft anyone?

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lightningsix.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Montreal’s Habitat 67 is my top pick

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suddenly-sully.bsky.social•3 hours ago

😂😂😂

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foxfire50.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Nah. Remember that Devatox blew that place up.

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tobyinbos.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Let’s not bring back brutalism shall we. Ugh. Have u seen the Boston City Hall? God what an eye sore.

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thecatking31.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Don't make fun of mecha goose.

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fragboner.bsky.social•21 hours ago

Is this a prison no no brutaldisneyland

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seanshivers.bsky.social•19 hours ago

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locsynsinsir.bsky.social•1 hour ago

Pretty sure that's Metroplex from Transformers

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cleisthenesforever.bsky.social•13 hours ago

My old library study grounds

https://onesearch.library.utoronto.ca/library-info/ROBARTS

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couchpilot99.bsky.social•12 hours ago

I loved getting high in those corner triangular glass rooms.(It was the eighties🤷)

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yourgfhayley.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Bro found the location

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okayaboutthat.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Now that’s “Brutalism”

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akuryo.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Coulda sworn this is where the lions assemble for Voltron

Maybe next door

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steviestunner.bsky.social•18 hours ago

The concrete peacock!

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sean-allingham.bsky.social•54 minutes ago

The hours I spent in that building. Did some good work, though. And some sluffing off. I still go back from time to time. The 8th floor corner rooms are my fav. Especially when the cherry blossoms are out. ;)

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grainofssand.bsky.social•48 minutes ago

Love the 🌸

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oladraycreative.bsky.social•9 hours ago

https://zeep.ly/cktOi

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nayomij.bsky.social•11 hours ago

UofT 🙌🏾

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crickstr.bsky.social•12 hours ago

All I see is a turkey shaped building...

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strongasboar.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Me too! Now I want stuffing.

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mathieuferron.bsky.social•3 hours ago

The institute in which my lab is localized is a brutalist building, but most of my colleagues don't know it. @ircm.bsky.social

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theneonrabbit.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Toronto?

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newzealander1.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Correct Update Robarts Library.

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newzealander1.bsky.social•12 hours ago

UofT not update damn auto correct.

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boldlyblue.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Strange… resembles our county jail

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newzealander1.bsky.social•11 hours ago

It definitely is a style and not my favourite building on campus at all make fun of it a bit. But does have some nice parts to it in a very strange way. Fisher Rare Book library at the front of the building is cool inside

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newzealander1.bsky.social•11 hours ago

I should add a lot of UofT campus is quite nice architecturally it has been used quite a bit in movies to appear to be a Ivey League or similar school.

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reallyottawa.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Yes; sometimes they have interesting exhibits at Thomas Fisher. Like that pop-up book one a while ago.

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thereplicator.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Reminds me of UofT Scarborough campus. Some of the most brutalist architecture I’ve ever seen.
Fun fact:
The Weeknd filmed “Secrets” there if you wanna see how brutal the architecture is.

https://youtu.be/eXDU9um19HM?feature=shared

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drruthi.bsky.social•8 hours ago

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sabrinarj.bsky.social•1 hour ago

🤣

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sjgirl.bsky.social•7 hours ago

My homage on the Oscar party pun buffet last night 😁

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johnliumd.bsky.social•2 hours ago

jerry doesn't have enough 'tude to get invited

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strongasboar.bsky.social•11 hours ago

It kinda looks like a turkey.

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sjb-y13.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Yes! I’ve genuinely wondered if that's what they were going for.

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bnsoz.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Next 'Doom' will be filmed there.

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misty013.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Aye. We could really use a group of overzealous teenagers with close ties to the earth and an uncanny ability to mighty morph into killer beasts right about now.

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shadumura.bsky.social•18 hours ago

That first half made me think of the planeteers....

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misty013.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Don't laugh.
I fucking love Captain Planet.

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shadumura.bsky.social•1 hour ago

Are you kidding me, dat shiz was my jam!

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shadumura.bsky.social•1 hour ago

I'm a millennial. It was among my cartoon shows.

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misty013.bsky.social•1 hour ago

Same. Elder millennial.

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rikabel69.bsky.social•15 hours ago

I love brutalism

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tondalicious.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Spent a good part of my life in there.

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silkythick.bsky.social•12 hours ago

For brutalist architecture this is actually kind of beautiful

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kinperry.bsky.social•11 hours ago

What, you thought it wasn't real?

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currentlymarin.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Good old Roberts.

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paulobro.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Looks like the OCP headquarters in robocop

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bigbadnailbiter.bsky.social•8 hours ago

I love brutalist architecture.

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farrahkaya.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Can confirm, during my undergrad they hogged the study rooms.

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m1zry.bsky.social•9 hours ago

The way I wheezed at this-

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robbomills.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Fort Book

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ravenswyng.bsky.social•10 hours ago

I spent a lot of time in that library ...

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fascistsmustgo.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Maybe needs 2 trees

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fascistsmustgo.bsky.social•19 hours ago

I like the part where it looks like bait and tackle.

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lightningsix.bsky.social•7 hours ago

I love brutalist architecture

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1whiteeyebrowdad.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Robarts I think. Keep in mind in original design there were flying buttresses. Uni changed that as things were getting expensive.

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reallyottawa.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Ooh I would like to have seen that drawing.

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sage-pantony.bsky.social•21 hours ago

My favourite thing is how well this goes with the other buildings on campus

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antiquequaalude.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Okay, for real the Power Rangers HQ is in my city. It's on this big piece of property that is some kind of Jewish summer camp or something like that

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smolizzyhands.bsky.social•15 hours ago

is that where kanye's weird private school was too or is that a different part of simi

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wolfbear.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Grew up going to Brandeis Bardin Institute. The building is called The House of the Book.

More info here: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/house-book-american-jewish-university

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antiquequaalude.bsky.social•5 hours ago

That's the one! Such cool architecture.

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dane-c.bsky.social•6 hours ago

❤️ U of Toronto’s Robart Library! I’m a big fan of Brutalist architecture.

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lezbhonest0.bsky.social•4 hours ago

😂😂

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dana-m.bsky.social•16 hours ago

That was a big part of my undergrad at UofT.

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leonardrodrigues.bsky.social•3 hours ago

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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jkeay.bsky.social•14 hours ago

It's supposed to be a Canada Goose. Seriously.

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couchpilot99.bsky.social•12 hours ago

It took growing magic mushrooms in the dorm before me and my friends were able to figure that out.

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reallyottawa.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Seriously?
Who said that?

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jkeay.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Every UofT person I’ve ever spoken with about it. Apparently we’re all wrong. It just happens to look like a turkey. At least that’s indisputable.

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bkirst77.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Architect: please don’t make the elevator shaft look like a giant robot penis, please don’t make the elevator shaft look like a giant robot penis

Architect (later): God damn it

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lionesss.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Fort Book. Originally for post graduates only.

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jackalindanger.bsky.social•12 hours ago

We've got this evil looking building. I'm almost positive you can press a button and that robot thing activates.

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strongasboar.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Thats cool. That is totally a transformer

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ben1908.bsky.social•3 hours ago

I think that's General M. Bison's place.

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battlingbeaver.bsky.social•1 hour ago

Circa 2000 there was a food truck outside Robart's that made the BEST eggrolls. They had a delicious creamy curry sauce in them, I've never found any eggrolls that comes close to their recipe since.

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heavenmirror.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Known locally as Fort Book

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gr8philly.bsky.social•18 hours ago

A fire proof prison for books?

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markjoel.bsky.social•16 hours ago

It was designed to look like a bird, a beautiful bird. A global symbol of freedom and peace. (Robards Library U. of Toronto)

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strongasboar.bsky.social•11 hours ago

A turkey?

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chibrown81.bsky.social•9 hours ago

😆😆😆

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jimheaphy.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Brutalist architecture at its most glorious.

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cognisky.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Brutalism

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marysmorrison.bsky.social•1 hour ago

Nothing to get students in the right spirit for exams like a hulk of grey concrete.

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vermelho18.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Robarts Library

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jamesgilstrap.bsky.social•21 hours ago

The Squid Games compound looks great here

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goobsfuntimes.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Looks like the Olympic village in Hungary circa USSR times....

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anotherrahulj.bsky.social•20 hours ago

I'm so disappointed not a single one of my classmates made this joke the whole 5 years we were there

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blobrights.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Okay but what does the deployed mode look like

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billyteng.bsky.social•21 hours ago

Definitely a place full of teenagers with attitudes.

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grainofssand.bsky.social•50 minutes ago

That’s a library at my Alma Mater in Toronto 🤣

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gameshorts.bsky.social•11 minutes ago

Came here just to say I know that Library! UofT memories...

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grainofssand.bsky.social•6 minutes ago

I guess Robarts is having its 15 minutes 😂

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zurug.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Georgetown Lau Library. iykyk

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thegreatsipper.bsky.social•18 hours ago

SERIOUSLY!

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jccoes.bsky.social•10 hours ago

a lot of ppl hate Boston City Hall but not me, not anymore, I think it's pretty

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nourez.dev•13 hours ago

Oof that’s brutal.

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beady999.bsky.social•18 hours ago

That has to be a transformer.

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jackieblood.bsky.social•14 hours ago

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hubieoscar.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Robarts library, UofT

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cf5678.bsky.social•48 minutes ago

I was going to say something bad, but then I remembered, this is Bluesky

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scarletonly.bsky.social•10 hours ago

How did u find this spot? 🤣

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reallyottawa.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Applied, got accepted, and graduated.

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jodiemburton.bsky.social•21 hours ago

That’s Robarts Library at University of Toronto. Fun fact, there’s an altar at the entrance where they sacrifice a goat during FROSH week.

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jbet.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Wow, from the picture on their website, I can picture this as a setting for some ancient futuristic Egyptian ruler standing on that tower. So it is written, so shall it be done.

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