Tag Archives: construction
20180126. Deconstructing the Richmond-Adelaide Centre – a complex of buildings by WZMH Architects spanning 51 years with a temporary trailer terrace addition.
The Monde Condominiums near completion at East Bayfront. Designed by Moshe Safdie and Quadrangle Architects Limited and recipient of 2012 BILD Award for Best High-Rise Building Design.
20180101. Walking in the late winter afternoon shadow of the Harbour Plaza Residences.
20171202. Giving that concrete slab a smooth finish high above the Garden District.
The 73,000 kg 35-tonne 12 m tall overhead crane supports construction at the Eglinton Crosstown’s Oakwood Station.
A trio of hammers break up concrete at Queen St W and McCaul St.
20170907. Freeway motorists shall merge with Harbour St. below where the #Gardiner’s York Bay Yonge off-ramp once stood.
20170616. New steel girders add stripes of shadow to the supports of a quickly progressing Gardiner Expressway Simcoe off-ramp.
20170522. Knocking down large steel girders like Dominoes at the Gardiner Expressway York Bay Yonge off-ramp demolition.
20170520. The Gardiner York Bay Yonge off-ramp demolition has reached York St which will be cleared this weekend.
20170515. Two excavators bar passage to the denuded and abruptly ending York Bay Yonge off-ramp. #simcoeramp #toronto #infrastructure #demolition #gardiner
20170506. A support bent lies in the dirt at the abrupt end of the York / Bay / Yonge off-ramp.
20170421. Demolition of the Gardiner Expressway’s York / Bay / Yonge off-ramp has progressed rapidly in four days.
20170329. New and old bents (support columns with horizontal caps) stand side by side at a Gardiner Expressway off-ramp.
20170302. The apexual architecture of Ten York, wedged between expressway structures, is making a point.
20170122. The triangular King Highline residential and retail complex between King West and the rail corridor is rising fast.
20161225. Only two walls of the heritage-designated 1927 Canadian Westinghouse Building remain standing as construction commences on the future two-building King Blue Condominium and Hotel complex.
20160911. This is where the Gardiner Expressway’s future Simcoe Street off-ramp will land.
20160910. Aqualina condo construction continues behind Sherbourne Common’s glowing zinc-clad pavilion.
20160907. Ten York’s pointy podium takes shape on a wedge of land bordered by the Gardiner Expressway and one of its off-ramps.
20160523. An aerial view of Toronto’s quickly rising Harbour Plaza Residences.
20160510. An aerial view of TTC’s original Eglinton Station bus terminal – soon to be a memory.
This is where the tunnel boring machines that have completed tunneling the western leg of the Eglinton Crosstown LRT will be extracted.
20160312. All that remains of the 1928 Art Deco Loblaws Grocerterias Warehouse (Lakeshore and Bathurst, Toronto).
Don’t worry as they are going to be “re-establisng an original” by saving 100,000 bricks and stonework for the West and South faces with a couple of condo towers behind and an addition on top.
20160304. The anatomy of a fire exit stairwell.
