Toronto, Ontario 2007

While I was in Toronto, with no sense of irony at all, I made dozens of photographs of the CN Tower. It is the tallest free standing structure in the world, but it quickly becomes a highly ubiquitous feature of the skyline when you are plodding around the city on foot.

From any distance it looks like a dated sci-fi prop and up until the moment I was standing underneath it I had a hard time mustering any awe whatsoever. Nonetheless, its’ omnipresence during my explorations in the city—the never ending spire-peak-a-boo, popping out behind other structures—compelled me to photograph and rephotograph.

For this reason alone would have I cast my vote for the Canadian National Tower in Cabinet Magazine’s Most Phallic Building in the World contest, had some lame building in Michigan not already won.