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20170629. An ellipsoid at sunset created by the triodetic-domed Cinesphere and it reflection.
20170221. The 1935 art deco Allenby Theatre, once the Roxy and Toronto home to the The Rocky Horror Picture Show and now a Tim Hortons, designed by the master theatre architects Kaplan & Sprachman, and built for about $10,500.
20170118. The Eglinton Grand, a national historic site and elaborate and luxurious example of Art Deco architecture (1936), is back as an elegant event space. #Toronto, #architecture, Canada’s Historic Places
20160404. East elevation of Toronto’s once Consumers Gas Co. Purifying House No. 2 and now the Canadian Opera Company’s Opera Theatre.
Architects Strictland and Symens, 1888, Renaissance Revival.
The building was designed in the style of an early Christian basilica with a clerestory roof. It may have been built as a self-supporting structure and simply placed on top of the building so that any explosion would raise it without destroying the walls (from the COC’s website).