Tag Archives: construction
20200617. A piece of old on-ramp sits above Jarvis Street waiting to be removed.
20200531. Dismantling the Jarvis Street on-ramp to the Gardiner Expressway.
20200509. The next piece of the Gardiner Expressway to be transported into place waits overnight at the fabrication site in the West Don Lands.
20200502. Moving a prefabricated steel girder for the Gardiner’s rehabilitation involves 2 tractors, 2 motorized trailers and 90 wheels.
20200316. From here, Yonge Street seems to be a boulevard of facades.
20200312. Pretty lights on a construction site that is now a Nordstrom – from 2015.
20200309. A new rental tower has attached itself to LuCliff Place resulting in a consolidated structure that leaves me speechless.
20200308. Inside the facade of the future 2 Queen Street West.
20200307. A tower crane on a parkade to help build 2 Queen Street West.
20200221. The Scotiabank North Tower at the Bay Adelaide Centre is finally starting to go up.
20200220. I’ve often wondered how cranes are mounted in construction pits and now I have a clue.
20200209. The new pedestrian bridge linking the future CIBC Square (and GO Transit Bus Station) to the PATH via the Scotiabank Arena is looking pretty good. Of course there are windows on the south side.
20200208. The Honest Ed’s redevelopment construction site shows just how big Honest Ed’s was. No wonder I got lost in there all the time.
20200206. Mirvish Village is looking a bit different these days.
20200115. Construction continues on the Eglinton Crosstown LRT at Chaplin Crescent (facing east). The LRT tunnel is below the concrete, utilities will run below the steel beams which will support future road decking.
20200114. Where The Crosstown LRT on Eglinton will go back underground into Kennedy Station.
20200108. The construction site at 160 Front St is almost fully excavated underneath the rear face of the remaining heritage facade.
20191229. Behind the facades of 19 Duncan Street, a future mixed-use development, significant progress has been made on excavation.
20191228. Taking advantage of a facade’s support structure in lighting a construction hoarding walkway at King and Peter.
20191227. The best construction hoarding in Toronto could be at Wellington and York, around the 1888 Toronto Club.
20191225. Taking advantage of facadism to sneak a peek at the Shangri-La Hotel.
20191220. The anatomy of a fire exit stairwell.
20191207. Constructing a Storm Water Quality Facility (SWQF) at Lake Shore Blvd and Cherry St to treat urban run-off from new West Don Lands development.
20191127. The Gardiner Expressway strategic rehabilitation from Jarvis to Cherry Street (https://bit.ly/37z0TYu) continues. Here, the new Sherbourne St off-ramp decking is in place and a worker prepares a support bent for a new panel.