photos 20210929. The Valhalla Executive Centre at 300 The East Mall seems aptly named as it is demolished. Image September 30, 2021 Vik
photos 20210923. After a 20 year run, the Toronto Weston Flea Market closed its doors two years ago. Image September 23, 2021 Vik
photos 20210922. Will Moss Park’s 1974 Centrepoint East High-Rise Complex be the first white brutalist buildings in Toronto? Image September 22, 2021 Vik
photos 20210911. Science Centre Station on the Eglinton Crosstown LRT is nearly complete. Image September 11, 2021 Vik
photos 20210908. The interiors of the former IBM offices (John B, Parkin Associatiates, 1965) have been stripped but the facades will remain under the Crosstown III tower. Image September 8, 2021 Vik
photos 20210831. Modern August #31. Many of Toronto’s finest mid-century modern buildings face the same risk as this now demolished strip mall in Victoria Village. Image September 2, 2021 Vik
photos 20210830. Modern August #30. Whites Location Equipment Supply has equipped the film industry for over 50 years from this massive modern warehouse. Image August 31, 2021 Vik
photos 20210829. Modern August #29. Rexdale Public Library opened in 1959 and was renovated in 1991. Image August 29, 2021 Vik
photos 20210826. Modern August #26. Seeya Celestica as you make way for the Crosstown Community. Image August 27, 2021 Vik
photos 20210824. Modern August #24. John B. Parkin’s forever contemporary Ortho Pharmaceutical Building (1955). Image August 25, 2021 Vik
photos 20210816. Modern August #16. The triangle is ubiquitous in modernist churches as seen here at the 1966 Immanuel Baptist Church in Hillcrest Village. Image August 17, 2021 Vik
photos 20210815. Modern August #15. Triangular north elevation of Mimico Presbyterian Church (1958). Image August 17, 2021 Vik
photos 20210808. Modern August #8. The Evangeline Residence is the second largest women’s shelter in Toronto (from 2017 – the facade is a little less colourful now). Image August 8, 2021 Vik
photos 20210807. Modern August #7. The chapel’s impressive facade of brick, stone and copper at St. John Henry Newman Catholic High School may soon be no more than a facade as the school is replaced. Image August 6, 2021 Vik
photos 20210806. Modern August #6. Toronto’s modern Celestica (formerly IBM) Offices (1965) shall soon sprout buildings as high as 130 metres as the Crosstown comes to Don Mills and Eglinton. Image August 6, 2021 Vik
photos 20210805. Modern August #5. The walk-up apartment building at 71 Guildwood Parkway features overlapping entrance canopies or port cocheres. Image August 6, 2021 Vik
photos 20210804. Modern August #4. The distinctive concave facade of the Ontario Court of Justice Criminal Youth and Family Courts building. Peter Dickinson, 1957. Image August 5, 2021 Vik
photos 20210730. The colourful pedestrian bridge linking the North and South buildings of the Metro Toronto Convention Centre (from 2018). Image July 31, 2021 Vik pedestrian
photos 20210722. Bridges of July #22. The pedestrian bridge over Finch Avenue from Old Cummer GO Station. Image July 23, 2021 Vik
photos 20210721. Bridges of July #21. The covered concrete and glass walkway along the Progress Avenue overpass above McCowan Ave. Image July 22, 2021 Vik
photos 20210709. Bridges of July #9. A Mammoet self-propelled modular transport with 72 wheels supports the new Eaton Centre pedestrian bridge as it is fastened in place. Image July 9, 2021 Vik pedestrian
photos 20210707. Bridges of July #7. Heading west, here is the Peace Bridge over Calgary’s Bow River, designed by Santiago Calatrava, the architect behind Sam Pollock Square in Toronto’s Brookfield Place. Image July 8, 2021 Vik
photos 20210706. Bridges of July #06. The Puente De Luz pedestrian bridge under construction in 2011. The ‘Bridge of Light’ takes people from Front Street to CityPlace. Image July 7, 2021 Vik