Monthly Archives: June 2014
20140629. Parking lot lamp on a partly cloudy sky. Minimal Aesthetic # 35. Lamp # 3.
20140628. River City Phase 1, the condominium clad in black, is the winner of the Toronto People’s Choice Award for residential architecture.
20140627. An elegant exposed concrete descent into the underground (Distillery District, Toronto).
20140626. The old Canary Restaurant (c.1859), covered in platform rigging, is getting a face-lift (Pan Am Athletes’ Village or Canary District, Toronto).
20140625. The sun shines between expressway and off-ramp under Toronto’s Gardiner.
I will be exhibiting three photos of high-rises along side other talented photographers at the opening gala for the Toronto Urban Photography Festival at Gallery 918 (918 Bathurst) this Friday June 27th from 6-11pm. Come by if you can! Check out www.tupf.ca for workshops, photo walks and phototalks from June 27 – July 12.
20140624. A financial reflection. TD Centre, King and Bay, Toronto.
20140623. Contextualism #2: The distant building addresses its context in terms of the materials, forms and details of the closer building.
If all of Peter Dickinson’s high-rises (foreground) are demolished, a memory of them will exist in 90 Sumach (background).
Note the similar forms and details: colour of brick, shape of each patch of brick, the window style and the way each building features vertical lines of windows.
20140622. Phase 3 of Regent Park’s redevelopment involves the demolition of a 1958 Peter Dickinson modernist high-rise.
20140621. Regent Park townhouses still standing versus those half demolished.
20140620. The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health’s new Utilities and Parking Building (Toronto).
20140619. Dots on Mies van der Rohe’s International Style TD Centre (Toronto).
20140618. A different angle on Manulife Financial at 250 Bloor St E (c.1968) in Toronto.
20140617. Aerial lifts await a new day of work on the east Gardiner Expressway in Toronto.
20140616. What’s to be done with the 2004 heritage-listed Victory Soya Mills silos on Toronto’s east bayfront?
20140615. The sand dunes of Toronto.
20140614. Toronto’s St. Lawrence Garage is all about lines.
20140613. The Global House office tower (480 University Ave, Toronto, c.1968) will be getting a complete makeover and a 37 story residential addition.
This impressive International-style facade will be lost to yet another glass envelope. You can see the new diesign at http://www.urbantoronto.ca/database/projects/480-university-icon.
20140612. Above your head inside the Portlands Energy Centre (natural gas powerplant) in Toronto.
20140611. How many balconies are there at 99 and 77 Harbour Square (Toronto)?
20140610. It is a long way to the top of a #TorontoFire aerial truck . Taken January 31, 2014.
20140609. New social housing has come to CityPlace in Toronto (KPMB Architects).
20140608. The Renaissance Plaza towers over the Church of the Redeemer (Avenue Rd and Bloor St, Toronto).
20140607. An architectural dichotomy on Bloor St in Toronto – short old offices vs. tall new condos.
20140606. An aerial view of the Puente de Luz bridge and CityPlace (Toronto).
