20240203. The future Don Mouth riverbed lined with armour stone (facing north from the Commissioner’s Street bridge).
Tag Archives: port lands
20240130. A landmark for Promontory Park in the port lands.
20240129. The new Cherry Street North bridge on the new Cherry Street lights up at night.
20220727. A transmission tower that changes the direction of power.
20220308. The Don Mouth Naturalization and Port Lands Flood Protection Project is progressing (https://bit.ly/3CrbrZs).
20220304. There is now a new yellow bridge in the Toronto Port Lands where the T&T Supermarket parking lot was. The Don Mouth Naturalization Project continues.
20211007. Just like that, the Gardiner Expressway east end ramps are gone!
20210919. Redevelopment of the Toronto Port Lands into the Lower Don Lands has come a long way. Here we see the bed of the extended Don River.
20210916. That iconic view of the Gardiner Expressway is changing rapidly.
20210907. Lake Shore Blvd East and the Don Roadway looks much brighter now as demolition of the Gardiner Expressway east end ramps moves quickly.
20210901. Toronto Today #1. The Gardiner Expressway east end ramps are now closed permanently as the city prepares to demolish the section east of the Don Valley Parkway on-ramps.
20210715. Bridges of July #15. Toronto’s Cherry Street Strauss Trunnion Bascule Bridge in the Port Lands (from 2015).
20201215. The vacant Toronto Hydro transformer substation at 281 Cherry Street is a modest example of Edwardian Classical styling from 1928.
220201211. Looking West from the Cherry Street Bridge at the mouth of the Ship Channel in the rapidly changing Port Lands.
20201208. Capturing the past and the future of Toronto’s Port Lands (Don Mouth Naturalization Project by Waterfront Toronto).
20200901. It almost looks like the tall ship is in the dry dock.
20200506. Construction equipment terra-forming the Port Lands looks cute from a distance.
20200204. The work going on in the port lands – the Don River mouth naturalization project – is nothing short of terraforming Toronto.
20191125. Land has taken shape off Essroc Quay in the Port Lands as part of the Cherry Street Stormwater and Lakefilling Project which provides flood protection. A plane happened to fly by during the long exposure leaving a light trail.
20190102. Scaffolding surrounding smokestack.
Destroying industrial heritage with large-scale graffiti.
FedEx through a fence. The new FedEx Ship Centre in Toronto’s port lands where Cascades once stood.
20160623. Post Brexit Wall. Minimal Aesthetic 96.
The wall represents a new barrier in Europe and the inversion the reaction of the markets to this vote to exit.
20160530. Floating Flexity streetcar at TTC’s Leslie Barns Maintenance and Storage Facility.
20160528. Toronto’s first new Flexity LRV (streetcar) 4401 prepares for warp speed.
Ok, in reality it sits in the paint booth at the new TTC Leslie Streetcar Barns during Doors Open Toronto 2016.