Monthly Archives: August 2015
20150830. Rust, rail and stairs. Minimal Aesthetic 66.
20150829. Four fluorescent lights cast shadows in a corner. Minimal Aesthetic 65.
20150828. Upside down man in an inverted building. Minimal Aesthetic 64.
20150827. Toronto Hydro Electric System sub-system D. City Architect Robert McCallum, 1910.
20150826. Toronto’s un-designated 1974 Brutalist Masters Building A.
20150825. Toronto’s L Tower rises dramatically from Yonge and The Esplanade.
20150823. A bird’s eye view of Toronto’s Art Deco inspired West Harbour City towers. Quadrangle Architects, 2011.
20150822. Taking the Clear Spirit Tower head on in Toronto’s Distillery District.
20150821. Ottawa’s fairly funky federal 1971 International Style Place Vanier towers.
20150820. 86 Lombard, the former City Morgue for Toronto (City Architect Robert McCallum, 1907).
20150814. An aerial view of Toronto’s newest Distillery District Condos (Gooderham and Clear Spirit).
20150812. A conduit for commuters and an empty gangway of lights at Toronto’s closing GO Transit Bay Concourse.
20150811. The fancy drop ceilings and old school way-finding signage are history at Toronto’s Union Station GO Transit Bay Concourse.
20150810. Fluorescent lights span Toronto’s Union Station GO Transit Bay Concourse, closing for renovations after 37 years.
A west elevation of the 1833 Georgian Daniel Brooke building in Old Town Toronto.
20150808. What lies beyond this dark incapacious corridor? Minimal Aesthetic 63.
20150807. What it looks like when falling sideways from the top of a tall 1979 International style concrete residential tower.
20150806. Toronto’s Edwardian Classical 3 Church Street.
20150805. Toronto’s striking St. Lawrence Hall (1851, Renaissance Revival) and home of Heritage Toronto.
20150804. Toronto’s stunning Bank of Toronto building (c.1906, Architect EJ Lennox, Classical Revival style).
20150803. Toronto’s boutique Hotel Victoria (c.1909, James Patrick Hynes), the first fireproof building in Toronto with the first foundation extending down to bedrock.
20150802. An elevated wide-angle view of Toronto’s State Street Financial Centre soon to be obstructed by a pair of condominium towers.
20150801. A full-length view of Toronto’s art deco Victory Building (c.1930, Baldwin and Greene, 80m), Canada’s first fully air-conditioned building.
