photos 20240203. The future Don Mouth riverbed lined with armour stone (facing north from the Commissioner’s Street bridge). Image February 4, 2024 Vik
photos 20240131. The Canada Malt Co. (wasn’t it Canada Malting Co.?) silos are looking pretty good these days (J.S. Metcalf, 1928). Image February 1, 2024 Vik
photos 20231213. What a difference paint, new windows and new balconies make at brutalist Centrepoint East. Image December 18, 2023 Vik
photos 20210928. The Wiltshire Transformer Station (Edwardian Classical) is looking great after $22 Million in upgrades. Image September 28, 2021 Vik
photos 20210304. Uno Prii’s 1972 666 Spadina Ave is looking spiffy after its recent revitalization. Image March 5, 2021 Vik
photos 20201027. Dreaming in the Financial District (Jaume Plensa, Richmond-Adelaide Centre, 2020). Image October 27, 2020 Vik
photos 20201019. Alexandra Park’s new box and no gable townhouses contrast nicely with the old bay and gable rowhouses. Image October 20, 2020 Vik
photos 20201009. Geometrically, the Manulife Centre’s new glass skirt seems to work with the brutalist tower but its most interesting feature now lies hidden. Image October 13, 2020 Vik
photos 20201001. Revitalizing the 1972 high-rise at Edgeley Village Driftwood, Toronto Community Housing at 415 Driftwood Ave in Jane and Finch. Aside October 2, 2020 Vik
photos 20200927. Revitalizing the Riverside Residences requires recladding. Image September 29, 2020 Vik
photos 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. March 4, 2020 Vik
photos 20190922. The SQ Condos rise above new TCHC (Toronto Community Housing) townhomes in a “revitalized” Alexandra Park. October 1, 2019 Vik
photos 20190809. The Fairmont Royal York Hotel through Union Station’s glass covered TD Carriageway. September 24, 2019 Vik
photos 20190719. The Union Station revitalization continues to progress with the opening of this pedestrian tunnel along Front Street. September 22, 2019 Vik
photos 20190717. The Union Station revitalization continues to progress with the opening of this glass covered walkway along Front Street known as the TD Carriageway. September 22, 2019 Vik
photos 20190716. Herding the humans through the construction at Union Station. September 22, 2019 Vik
photos 20181003. The Park Hyatt Hotel revitalization project is underway converting this 1929 tower to luxury rental units. October 4, 2018 Vik
photos 20181001. Head down to the Manulife Centre to see how to mess up a Brutalist masterpiece. The images below show the building before and during the so-called revitalization. October 2, 2018 Vik
photos 20180913. The temporary tunnel between the Eaton Centre and Ryerson’s School of Management. September 14, 2018 Vik
photos 20180618. The Three Watchmen stand tall in the newly renovated College Park atrium. June 19, 2018 Vik
photos 20170615. A look back at the 2015 demolition of a modernist Peter Dickinson Regent Park tower in the park. June 16, 2017 Vik
photos 20161208. The nearly finished SQ Condominiums in #Toronto’s redeveloping Alexandra Park, contrast strongly but fittingly with the turn of the century mid-rise commercial buildings of Spadina Avenue. December 9, 2016 Vik
photos 20161206. The redesigned Berczy Park, with its granite pavers in diamond shapes, is open and almost complete in Toronto’s St. Lawrence Market neighbourhood. Image December 7, 2016 Vik