Tag Archives: infrastructure
20200425. The industrial streamline moderne City of Toronto South District Operations building at 786 Dundas St E.
20200411. Demolition on Elizabeth Street has revealed some fine brutalism at the Enwave Walton Street Steam Plant.
20200317. GO Transit had barren platforms at rush hour on this day when Ontario declared a state of emergency.
20200314. Entering the Green P Parking Garage at 40 York Street.
20200313. Behind the Toronto Hydro-Electric System Windsor Station and its two eras of architecture.
20200222. A barren suburban commuter parkade means the weekend is here.
20200217. An unbearable sight at Union Station.
20200207. Finding beauty at Bathurst Station is as difficult as finding rational people in today’s political climate. Here is an attempt.
20200204. The work going on in the port lands – the Don River mouth naturalization project – is nothing short of terraforming Toronto.
20200130. In the bowels of an institution.
20200125. A shack and 10 legs of a tank.
20200119. Modernist zigzag concrete breeze block walls stylishly hide what is most likely a TTC power substation at Broadview Station.
20200117. The anatomy of a smashed streetlamp.
20200112. Looking up at the Warden Water Tank at 15 Civic Rd in Scarborough’s Golden Mile.
20200110. The front precast concrete wall of the Toronto Hydro Electric Substation at Charles and Jarvis.
20200106. The new GO Transit Bay Concourse at Union Station is starting to take shape and contrasts starkly from the old concourse also shown below.
20200104. Although opened in 1978, Wilson Station’s bus terminal sports convincing modern mid-century design.
20200103. A fish-eye view of a TTC LRT going over the Queen Street East bridge.
20200102. Above the stairwell at St. Clair Station.
20191212. Bent (engineering): a traverse framework to carry lateral as well as vertical loads such as the demolished Bay off-ramp from the Gardiner Expressway that this one carried. Can we please save at least one?
20191210. When you step back and look at Wellesley Station, it’s apparent that design was irrelevant even though this building is a subway station, bus terminal, apartment building’s amenity mezzanine and parking garage.
20191209. A shower of sparks means workers are preparing to remove a section of decking on the Gardiner Expressway – part of its strategic rehabilitation from Jarvis to Cherry St (see https://bit.ly/37z0TYu).
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.