Tag Archives: redevelopment
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.
20160301. Waiting for the bus under a massive relic of modernism.
Toronto‘s Sutton Place Hotel was built in 1967 by WZMH Architects. After almost 50 years in service the building is being redeveloped as a condominium tower.
20160228. A stripped 1967 brutalist Sutton Place Hotel shall transform into The Britt Condos.
20160225. Toronto’s 1972 brutalist Grand Hotel may be redeveloped into a 45 storey tower.
ERA Architects conducted the heritage impact statement. In short the building is not heritage-listed, not in a Heritage Conservation District and its height is not out of character with coming development. Amexon Development and CORE Architects Inc are behind the proposal.
20160130. Demolition makes way for the Minto Westside Condos in Toronto.
20160129. The last wall standing against the machines in Toronto’s Regent Park.
20150310. The art deco details of Leslieville’s closed-to-become-condo Weston Bakery in Toronto.
20150304. An aerial shot of demolition, redevelopment and contrast in Toronto’s Regent Park.
20150208. New and old contrast vividly in Toronto’s Regent Park during the demolition of its 2nd last modernist tower.
20141129. Toronto’s bleak Alexandra Park where units with wooden windows await demolition.
20141127. Walking the empty laneways of Toronto’s old (brutalist?) Alexandra Park before redevelopment.
20141030. The empty, decaying yet classical modernist Duke of York public school (c.1958) in Toronto’s Regent Park.
The property on which this former Toronto District School Board school sits has been purchased by the Toronto Catholic District School Board. Due to its bad state of repair, it will most likely be demolished.
20140623. Contextualism #2: The distant building addresses its context in terms of the materials, forms and details of the closer building.
If all of Peter Dickinson’s high-rises (foreground) are demolished, a memory of them will exist in 90 Sumach (background).
Note the similar forms and details: colour of brick, shape of each patch of brick, the window style and the way each building features vertical lines of windows.