20210128. 777 Bay Street gleams at dusk. Webb Zerafa Menkes (now WZMH Architects), 1983.
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20200316. From here, Yonge Street seems to be a boulevard of facades.
20191024. The Art Deco Toronto Hydro Building at 14 Carlton Street (Chapman & Oxley, 1031) with its limestone face, Moderne bas-reliefs and four female heads peering down.
20191020. 2 Carlton, a wonderful heritage-listed mid-century modern office tower is on the chopping block for a 73 storey condo tower.
20191015. Behind the facades of Toronto history on Yonge Street.
20191009. Only the north and west facades remain of the 1924 Gerrard Buidling which is a rare example of the Modern Gothic style adapted to a commercial building (Heritage Listed 1994).
20190828. The Yonge Street Mission occupied this future site of the YSL Condos at 381 Yonge Street since 1896.
20190823. Facade support structure at future YSL Residences tower development site.
20170625. Perched above pride parade party people on Yonge Street.
20190429. The Hard Rock Cafe at Yonge Dundas Square is now yet another Shoppers Drug Mart.
20190408. People walk by St. Luke Lane and its window on four eras of architecture – old commercial, modern, postmodern and contemporary.
20190407. Demolition reveals glass covered long ago between Yonge St and O’Keefe Lane south of Gerrard. This is the site of the future 85-storey YSL Residences condo tower.
The condominium behind this lovely 1891 Gothic Revival building is a bad example of contextual architecture – a principle of design in which a structure is designed with reference to its surroundings.
20180618. The Three Watchmen stand tall in the newly renovated College Park atrium.
20180217. Inside the curvy Samsung Experience Store.
20171222. The medium is the message at Yonge-Dundas Square.
20170416. Benjamin Brown’s Hermant Building east tower after restoration by ERA Architects.
20170313. The College Park atrium, with a railing-free staircase and a wall of wood hoarding, is getting a facelift.
20160930. This block on Yonge Street is to be demolished to make way for the 44-storey Clover on Yonge condominiums.
20160216. Looking up at Toronto’s gleaming 777 Bay St at dusk (c.1983, Webb Zerafa Menkes).
20150222. The indelible Yonge St face of Toronto’s new Ryerson University Student Learning Centre.
