The building that is The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery was built in 1926 as the powerhouse that housed the heating and refrigeration equipment for the Toronto Terminal Warehouse, now the Queen’s Quay Terminal. The building was renovated and reopened in 1987.
Monthly Archives: March 2016
20160330. The United Steelworkers building facade matrix. Curtis & Davis, 1963, Pittsburgh.
20160330. Brick Brutalist Baptist Building.
Northminster Baptist Church, Jane-Finch neighbourhood, North York, Toronto.
20160329. Pittsburgh’s Postmodern Glass Gothic PPG Place.
20160328. Remembering the Art Deco Loblaw Groceterias Warehouse (Lakeshore and Bathurst, Toronto) before demolition.
Sparling, Morton and Forbes, c.1928.
20160327. Looking up Pittsburgh’s 1959-built Wyndham Grand Hotel, an example of the city’s marvelous mid-century modernism.
20160326. Reserved for reflections of fenestrated sunlight.
20160325. Symmetry in the shadow of a setting sun.
20160324. Columns in plastic wrap and rows of lights march forward. Inside a warehouse demolition II.
20160323. In a staring contest with Toronto’s Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery.
The building that is The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery was built in 1926 as the powerhouse that housed the heating and refrigeration equipment for the Toronto Terminal Warehouse, now the Queen’s Quay Terminal (reflected in the glass). The building was renovated and reopened in 1987.
20160322. Enjoying a private moment at the suitably coloured TD Place stadium, home of the Ottawa Red Blacks.
20160321. Shedding light on Spring at Harbourfront Centre’s Canada Square.
20160320. Inside a warehouse demolition.
20160319. Walking by the Interncontinental cliff in Toronto’s Simcoe canyon.
The 1984-built Interncontinental Toronto Centre Hotel was formerly the Crowne Plaza Hotel Toronto and L’Hotel CN before that.
20160318. As the sun sets, Toronto’s Sun Life Tower goes black and gold.
20160317. Behind a Beaux Arts bank building (c.1907).
20160316. Claustrophobic Corridor to the Concourse at Toronto’s Union Station.
20160315. Peering up Cityplace Block 32 at bold Toronto Community Housing.
20160314. The mid-century expressionist canopy of Uno Prii’s Americana apartment building in North Toronto (1963).
20160313. A discounted UP Express train races below Toronto’s Bathurst Street bridge.
20160312. All that remains of the 1928 Art Deco Loblaws Grocerterias Warehouse (Lakeshore and Bathurst, Toronto).
Don’t worry as they are going to be “re-establisng an original” by saving 100,000 bricks and stonework for the West and South faces with a couple of condo towers behind and an addition on top.
20160311. The original Palace Street School section (1858) of what became Toronto’s Cherry St Hotel and Canary Diner.
The Canary District (and former PAN AM Athlete’s Village) is named after the diner. This is the oldest multi-room school house in Toronto.
20160310. The cavernous Leslie station on the underused Sheppard Line.
20160309. The Brutalist brick Bayview Glen Alliance Church (1978).
This congregation moved here to the northern border of Toronto from the stone Avenue Road Church which is now a Hare Krishna temple.
20160308. The sky is the limit at Toronto’s Air Miles Tower.
