Monthly Archives: June 2016
20160628. Commerce Court North Vestibule Ceiling.
20160627. The beautifully designed TR2 Equinix Data Centre on Toronto’s Parliament St has porcelain panels reminiscent of punch cards.
20160626. The twin towers of the Edge on Triangle Park Condominiums.
20160625. Follow the seam into Pittsburgh’s Point State Park..
20160624. The Picasso on Richmond’s blank western canvas.
20160623. Post Brexit Wall. Minimal Aesthetic 96.
The wall represents a new barrier in Europe and the inversion the reaction of the markets to this vote to exit.
20160622. An aerial view of Toronto Union Station’s historic exposed train shed steel structure.
Progress on the train shed has stalled as the future electrification of Go Transit trains will require either modifying the overhead wiring system to fit under the shed, lowering the floor or raising the roof with the latter being the worst case scenario as it involves considerable cost and harming the historic steel structure.
20160621. The abstract yet patent facade of the Thompson Residences. Minimal Aesthetic 95.
20160620. The boiler house (building 38) at Toronto’s old Unilever factory, a site soon to be transformed by First Gulf.
20160619. Before: A 1930 Newsome & Gilbert Limited class 1 brick and beam printing plant on King St West. Now: A partially demolished building making way for the future King Portland Centre.
20160618. The massive block-long building of the Toronto Carpet Manufacturing Company (1899. addition 1925).
20160617. The competing reflections of Bay Adelaide East versus Bay Adelaide West.
20160616. The Bessarian perspective on TTC’s Sheppard Line.
20160615. The narrowest building of Toronto’s Waterlink at Pier 27 condos and its industry-separating wall.
20160614. Looking up at Toronto’s newest office building at One York (Sun Life Financial Tower).
20160613. A full length rear aerial view of Toronto’s new Tableau Condominiums.
20160612. TTC’s Wilson Station mushroom.
Toronto
20160611. At Luminato at the Hearn, ride the construction elevator to the cavernous level above!
20160610. Monochrome Honeycomb. TDSB Claude Watson School of the Arts. Minimal Aesthetic 94.
20160609. Almost dinner time in the Distillery District.
20160609. Presto fare gates have replaced the old turnstiles at TTC’s Wellesley Station.
20160608. The bird-friendly art (Tadashi Kawamata’s Lamppost) in Toronto’s Canary District.
20160607. The prismatic podium of Toronto’s rhomboidal Burano on Bay Condos.
20160606. The Claude Watson School of the Arts honeycomb facade (Kohn Shnier Architects, 2007).
