20220513. An aerial view of the Alan Brown building reveals a little park terrace with grass and children’s playground.
Tag Archives: heritage listed
20220223. The Three Sisters of Sussex. Only the middle sister (aka the low energy retrofit Gemini House) kept her hat. University of Toronto, Second Empire, 1879.
20210623. Brutalist June continues with Brutalism #23. Uno Prii’s Alan Brown building (1983) is one of a kind.
20210118. Under the guise of accelerating construction for affordable housing, the Province has commenced demolition of the heritage-listed 1917-1929 Dominion Wheel and Foundries Company Buildings in the Canary District without the requisite paperwork. Help Friends of the Foundry save the building by signing their petition at https://bit.ly/3oY0Tti.
20210116. Silos South Side. Canada Malting Co., J.S. Metcalf, 1928.
20191126. The heritage-listed Victory Soya Mills silos and their reflection on the East Bayfront.
20191027. Behind the 1876 heritage-designated rowhouses on Widmer Street, a 49 storey condo shall rise.
20191020. 2 Carlton, a wonderful heritage-listed mid-century modern office tower is on the chopping block for a 73 storey condo tower.
20190524. Behind the facades of 19 Duncan Street, a future mixed-use development featuring a 58 storey condo tower.
20190523. The 1927 neo-Gothic warehouse-loft Fashion Building by Kaplan & Sprachman at Spadina Ave and Richmond St W.
20190522. Benjamin Brown’s 1927 art deco Tower Building.
20190115. The Ernest Smith Store and the F.W. Hutt Store in 1889 Parkdale.
20171208. Three ‘-ists’ to describe the heritage listed mid-century Flemingdon Park Apartments: Brutalist, Expressionist and Modernist.
20161226. The Milburn building on Colborne Street – designed by the “master practitioner” of Richardsonian Romanesque architecture, E.J. Lennox (architect of Casa Loma and Old City Hall).
20161220. Celebrated Canadian architect Uno Prii, known for sculpted concrete buildings in Toronto, dabbled with rectilinear forms in his later years including the 1983 Brutalist Alan Brown Building, a staff residence for The Hospital for Sick Children.
20161128. The rich and varied architectural history of Toronto’s Jarvis Street.
The three row houses to the left (1862) were originally part of a Georgian eight-house row. The Second Empire features – mansard roofs and bowed bays – were added about 20 years later. The double house to the right (1874) is an example of Italiante architecture with round-headed windows and doors and bracketed cornices. Thanks to Patricia McHugh’s 2nd edition of Toronto Architecture: A City Guide.
20161121. Three English Cottage Style structures, each with seven houses of varying plans, make up Rosedale’s Ancroft Place, a unique Garden City 21-unit housing complex (1927, Shepard & Calvin).
20161113. Originally the Harris Henry Fudger house (1898), this is one of the many incredible houses in Rosedale.
20161111. The R.C. Harris Water Treatment Plant Service Building is impressive even in the rear view.
20161106. The interesting and varied historic architecture of Spadina Avenue. From left to right: WJ Gage building, Darling Building, Tower Building, Reading Building, Fashion Building and The Morgan Condominiums (built 2002).
20161022. Sun and shadow contrast strongly on LCBO’s big box warehouse, site of a large future Menkes development.
20161019. Looking up at the wonderful massing at Toronto’s Berkeley Castle (1868).
20161010. A 1931 Art Deco garage entrance to drive through at the Mayfair Mansions in South Hill, Toronto.
20161005. From left to right, the three buildings of the wonderful Art Deco R. C. Harris Water Treatment Plant are the Pumping Station, Service Building and Filtration Building.
20161004. Allstream Centre symmetry.
