See the potential new design at http://www.retail-insider.com/2013/08/hazelton-lanes-to-renovate-for-luxury.html.
Monthly Archives: November 2013
Photo 20131128. The 101-year-old Dufferin Street bridge in Toronto will be demolished this weekend.
The bridge has been deemed structurally unsafe and is not viable for repair. Temporary bridges will be erected until 2016 when it will be fully rebuilt. Will we lose the stairs that serviced the old Parkdale eastbound platform too?
Photo 20131127. Glass floor, upside-down door.
Photo 20131126. Fire escape remnants at the empty, decaying United Artists Theater (c.1927).
For the history of this theater, please go to www.historicdetroit.org/building/united-artists-theatre/. The website also features the history of several other Detroit buildings.
Photo 20131125. Concourse and platform contrast nicely at Don Mills subway station in Toronto.
Photo 20131124. Pipes and posts. Minimal aesthetic #17.
Photo 20131123. Looking up at “X the condominium,” Jarvis and Charles, Toronto.
Photo 20131122. This is ZOMBIELAND. Park Avenue in Detroit, MI.
Photo 20131121. Mies van der Rohe’s pavilion at the Toronto Dominion Centre, Toronto.
From Wikipedia: The TD Centre comprises a collection of structures spread across a granite plinth, all regulated, in three dimensions, and from the largest scale to the smallest, by a mathematically ordered, 1.5 m2 (16 sq ft) grid.
Photo 20131120. A full, vivid CN Tower shadow falls across the core.
Photo 20131119. The curved covered concrete Rosedale Valley Bridge (TTC) disappears underground, Toronto.
Photo 20131118. The crooked and sinking houses on Shaw Street, Toronto.
These houses are built on infill over the Garrison Creek that is shifting over time.
Come on an urban exploration walk this Saturday (Nov 23) and see these houses – 2pm outside Christie subway station.
Photo 20131117. Giant interlocking gates conceal the electric substation at Dupont subway station, Toronto.
Photo 20111116. Below, people wait for the streetcar in front of the now sold Honest Ed’s in Toronto.
Photo 20131115. The Soho Metropolitan hotel/condos infused with Art Deco.
Photo 20131114. Enter the underworld … at Toronto Community Housing in Scarborough.
Photo 20131113. A white dog guards an orange building.
Photo 20131112. This 6-story-sized X marks the spot of the future Queen Richmond Centre West in Toronto.
For a rendering of the building, go to http://www.qrcwest.com/en_building.htm.
Photo 20131111. Dupont subway station symmetry (Toronto).
Photo 20131110. The second platform is starting to show through at Toronto’s Union subway station.
Photo 20131109. Platform level at the neatest subway station in Toronto – Dupont.
Photo 20131108. TTC’s Dupont station glass bubble entrance, Toronto.
Photo 20131107. Rocks and portables of philosophy, University of Toronto Scarborough.
Photo 20131106. The Pillars of Ontario Power.
Photo 20131105. A water channel snakes through a zinc-clad pavilion (Sherbourne Common, Toronto).
“Sherbourne Common is the first park in Canada to integrate an ultraviolet (UV) facility for neighbourhood-wide stormwater treatment into its design” – from the Waterfront Toronto website.
