There is quite a concentration of tall buildings on Bloor Street starting at Yonge and going east. Note the sun streaming between buildings down Bloor street which stretches off into the sunset. If you look carefully you can identify Yonge and Bloor by the tall building under construction (1 Bloor East currently at 46/75 storeys) and the CIBC and Hudson’s Bay buildings.
Monthly Archives: February 2015
20150227. In an aerial photo of Toronto, The CN Tower stand sentinel over the downtown west.
Spadina Street stretches out to the north and if you look carefully you can see its intersections with King and Queen. Most of the King-Spadina Heritage Conservation District is also visible of which a study is being conducted. Queen West, Kensington Market, Chinatown and the Entertainment District are all visible.
To the right are the unmistakeable forms of the blue Art Gallery of Ontario and the checkered pattern of the Ontario College of Art’s Sharp Centre for Design. North of that in the top right corner is the massive brutalist Robarts Library and the University of Toronto Campus. In the foreground the Ritz Carlton dominates the skyline apart from the very tall CN Tower.
20150226. The Ryerson Student Learning Centre’s dramatic entrance at night. Toronto.
Zeidler Partnership Architects and Snohetta. 2015.
20150225. The Toronto skyline and Canadian National Exhibition Grounds from 2000 feet.
From this point of view you can see how many more tall buildings we have – evidence that Toronto has more towers going up than any other city in North America. In the foreground, notice how large the Canadian National Exhibition grounds are and particularly how massive the Direct Energy conference centre is. It is the biggest squat square building in between the expressway and the lakeshore boulevard. And to the far right is the permanently sleepy Ontario Place. And finally I love how you can see the 32-year-deceased Hearn power plant on the other side of town in the barren port lands (reddish building with huge smokestack near water).
20150224. Aerial photo of the shadow side of Toronto’s CN Tower at sunset…
…with the Humber Bay area condos casting shadows across the lake and curvy Bremner Ave winding its way through CityPlace to the left of the tower.
20150223. Getting up close and personal with Toronto’s CN Tower at 2000 feet. Union Station and its new train shed roof is to the left.
20150222. The indelible Yonge St face of Toronto’s new Ryerson University Student Learning Centre.
20150221. The shiny rear exterior of the new Ryerson Student Learning Centre.
20150220. The impressive main floor atrium inside Toronto’s new Ryerson Student Learning Centre opening Monday.
20150219. The first look inside the amazing new Ryerson Student Learning Centre that opens this coming Monday! The Beach is the completely open 6th floor gathering space, ciomplete with water, sand and sun.
20150218. University of Toronto’s Brutalist Tartu College seems to lift off the ground as if supported only by its thin end walls.
Tampold Architects, 1969.
20150217. Toronto’s Daniel Libeskind designed L Tower and its angular chamfered SW corner.
20150216. York University’s award-winning Seymour Schulich Building and Executive Learning Centre in Toronto. Hariri Pontarini Architects, 2004.
Hariri Pontarini Architects in joint venture with Robbie/Young + Wright Architects designed this building, a 2006 Governor General Medal in Architecture winner.
20150215. Below a Toronto bayfront billboard. Sitting on future Monde condo land, this relic will disappear.
20150214. Lines and exposed concrete define the lower entrance to University of Toronto’s brutalist Robarts Library.
20150213. Pipes and handrails follow stairwell contours in Toronto’s TTC Pape Subway station.
20150212. The Shim-Sutcliffe Architects award-winning Sisters of the St. Joseph Residence (East York, Toronto).
This is a hospital / assisted-living centre with impressive green features including integrated solar panels, geothermal heating and cooling, a green roof and permeable pavers in the parking lot to reduce water runoff.
20150211. Below the metal canopy of the Allen Lambert Galleria at Toronto’s Brookfield Place.
20150210. With Global Village Backpackers’ Hostel now closed, what’s next for this 1875 Second Empire building at King and Spadina?
This building was originally the Richardson House. It was built in 1875 but then modified in 1882 and 1890. In 1917 it became the Spadina Hotel where Leonard Cohen and the Rolling Stones played, a Jack Nicholson film was made and Ernest Hemingway stayed. In 1997 it became the Global Village Backpacker’s Hostel. Late last year the owner died and the place was quickly closed up.
20150209. Down the Delta Toronto monochromatic ramp into a colourful parkade.
20150208. New and old contrast vividly in Toronto’s Regent Park during the demolition of its 2nd last modernist tower.
20150207. An unusual aerial view of the CN Tower without its main observation level.
20150206. Toronto’s June Callwood Park sits in a canyon with a sheer condo cliff to the west known as Neptune 2.
20150205. Inside the machine. Atrium on Bay in Toronto.
20150204. Mies van der Rohe’s pavilion at the Toronto Dominion Centre, Toronto II.
