Monthly Archives: March 2014
20140329. The fake Gold Star Car Service Centre at Eastern Ave and Pape Ave in Toronto.
20140328A. Firefighters fought a six-alarm fire at a foam mattress factory near Dufferin and Eglinton in Toronto on March 27, 2014.
20140327. A close-up look at the impressive Absolute World condominium towers in central Mississauga.
20140326. Mississauga Civic Centre (c.1987, postmodern, Architects Jones and Kirkland)
The design was apparently influenced by farmsteads that once occupied much of Mississauga.
Occasionally, the Toronto Photography Blog belies its name and strays from Toronto. Look out for more images from my home town Mississauga.
On that note, much of April will be dedicated to Buffalo, the city many of us drive by but don’t stop and visit. Expect great architecture, lots of silos and shots of another elevated expressway.
20140325. Brutalism in the Toronto District School Board – Central Technical School Arts Centre (c.1964, Architect Macy DuBois).
20140324. Working on the Weston Tunnel between Lawrence and Weston in Toronto for GO’s Georgetown South project.
This project removes many of the at-grade street crossings with below grade rail corridors. Here the corridor is being lowered to pass under three roads.
20140323. From 200 feet up, the verticality of Toronto’s growing South Core district is apparent.
20140322. The entire postmodern and very interesting Rogers AT&T Centre in Toronto.
20140321. Mainland access shaft to excavated tunnel leading to Toronto’s island airport and future tunnel schematic.
According to the Toronto Port Authority website, this is “set to become the world’s first underwater pedestrian tunnel connecting an airport to mainland.”
20140320. Great architecture outside Dupont subway station at night (Toronto).
20140319. Uranium pellets for nuclear fuel bundles are made here. 1025 Lansdowne Ave (north of Dupont St., Toronto).
GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy Canada, Inc. has two buildings on this site. I am unsure in which building the pellets are made.
20140318. The south elevation of the funky office building at 110 Eglinton Ave. W in Toronto.
20140317. Suncor’s Mississauga Lubricants Centre is visible from the Bathurst St. Slip (across from the island airport) in Toronto.
Suncor, who owns Petro-Canada Lubricants, makes over 350 lubricants, specialty fluids and greases.
20140316. The below-grade rail corridor at Strachan Avenue and the Liberty Village townhomes stretch east towards downtown.
The street-level crossing has been removed and replaced with a below-grade rail corridor and a Strachan Avenue overpass. Currently, only the north side passage is open. You can see the orange and white tarps covering the future overpass.
20140315. The 1960 modernist Deak International Building at 10 King E, Toronto in a matrix of windows.
20140314. Far below, the lonely little Toronto Harbour Commission building awaits development on its lot.
As mentioned at UrbanToronto.ca, the building and land is owned by the Toronto Port Authority and will most likely be developed by Oxford Properties.
20140313. Grayscale glass block wall. Minimal aesthetic #28.
20140312. The extreme brutalism of York University’s Curtis Lecture Halls.
Perhaps the rectangular concrete masses reveal the specific functional zones of the building – lecture halls. Only a small section on the other side has windows.
20140311. The derelict heritage-designated Art Deco Incinerator at 150 Symes in Toronto.
The building has been sold to an investor who has promised to retain the entire building instead of only a facade, like so many other buildings in Toronto.
20140310. A top-down view of the 50-storey Maple Leaf Square South Tower in Toronto.
20140309. Amesbury Park Library in Toronto (c.1967) – modernist and seemingly contemporary.
The surroundings probably looked exactly like this back in 1967.
20140308. Dead end pedestrian overpass. Yorkdale Mall, Toronto.
20140307. Rosedale subway station in Toronto is a fine example of modernist architecture (c.1954, Architect John B. Parkin).
20140306. The Brutalist Berkshire House in black and white (c.1974, 411 Duplex Ave, Toronto).
