photos 20200202. Toronto City Council has endorsed replacing the brutalist St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts with a new state-of-the-art cultural and civic hub. Image March 12, 2020 Vik
photos 20200201. The McDonald Block complex, the administrative hub of the Ontario government, is undergoing a major reconstruction that will replace all core building systems. March 12, 2020 Vik
photos 20200129. The greenhouse-inspired structure above the patio outside New Fort Hall at Hotel X. The hall features glass floors both in and out with foundations of former barracks of nearby Fort York below. March 12, 2020 Vik
photos 20200127. An LCBO right out of what I presume is the 1970s. 1090 The Queensway. Image March 12, 2020 Vik
photos 20200126. The mechanical penthouse at 48 Yonge Street (at Wellington) reveals that this was a modernist building reclad in marble and mirrored glass. March 12, 2020 Vik
photos 20200124. The slick 1971 Forest Hills residential high-rise of Westminster, North York. March 12, 2020 Vik
photos 20200122. Thales Canada (formerly IBM) at 105 Moatfield Drive is a great example of a Brutalist office tower (Crang & Boake, 1982). March 10, 2020 Vik
photos 20200121. Goodbye to University of Toronto’s Best (left, 1954) and Banting (right, 1930) Institutes named for the two men that discovered and commercialized insulin in 1922. They will be replaced by the Schwartz Reisman Innovation Centre. March 10, 2020 Vik
photos 20200120. At Front and Wellington sits a postmodern condo built to anticipate another building with only an insignificant building in front – the perfect development site yet it has no application. March 10, 2020 Vik
photos 20200119. Modernist zigzag concrete breeze block walls stylishly hide what is most likely a TTC power substation at Broadview Station. March 10, 2020 Vik
photos 20200118. Looking up from inside the 1968 Etobicoke Cenotaph at the Etobicoke Civic Centre. March 9, 2020 Vik
photos 20200116. Could the north face of the Crown Life Insurance Building (120 Bloor St W) have been an inspiration for the Daniels Faculty Of Architecture, Landscape And Design? March 9, 2020 Vik
photos 20200115. Construction continues on the Eglinton Crosstown LRT at Chaplin Crescent (facing east). The LRT tunnel is below the concrete, utilities will run below the steel beams which will support future road decking. March 9, 2020 Vik
photos 20200114. Where The Crosstown LRT on Eglinton will go back underground into Kennedy Station. March 9, 2020 Vik
photos 20200112. Looking up at the Warden Water Tank at 15 Civic Rd in Scarborough’s Golden Mile. March 8, 2020 Vik
photos 20200111. A large mural graces the south side ground floor wall of the Grid Condos. March 8, 2020 Vik
photos 20200110. The front precast concrete wall of the Toronto Hydro Electric Substation at Charles and Jarvis. March 8, 2020 Vik
photos 20200109. Stripping away the brutalist elements at 1200 Eglinton Ave E (near Wynford Drive), a classic building by Raymond Moriyama. Image March 5, 2020 Vik