Monthly Archives: July 2016
20160729. Under Toronto’s pristine elevated Gardiner Expressway East.
20160728. Hemmed in by skyscrapers in downtown Toronto.
20160727. A top-down view of Toronto’s Commerce Court West Tower.
Note the green roof of the Toronto Dominion Centre banking pavilion to the right.
20160726. 1972 rough-hewn concrete modernism. 240 Duncan Mill Rd, Toronto.
In 2009, a concrete slab, the building’s brise-soleil or sun baffle, fell of the building with 100 people inside.
20160725. Art in the Absence of Advertising.
20160724. The silos of St. Marys Cement at dusk.
Bowmanville, Ontario.
20160722. The 1938 591m Bill Thorpe Walking Bridge in Fredericton, New Brunswick.
2060721. Take a moment to reflect on the beauty of what lies below before you jump.
20160719. Toronto’s L-Tower looks as impressive from the sky as from the ground.
20160718. An architectural reminiscence of what came before Toronto’s Tableau Condominiums.
See http://goo.gl/y3cuYA for this building’s previous incarnation.
20160717. An aerial view of the densest, largest high-rise community in Canada – St. James Town, Toronto.
20160716. Sneaking a peek at Toronto’s CN Tower through Mies van der Rohe’s TD Centre.
20160715. A bird’s eye view of tiny men painting Toronto’s TD Centre.
20160714. Face to face with Toronto’s postmodern Dynamic Funds Tower (Dundee Place).
20160713. Full-length aerial view of the Ernst & Young Tower and its embedded Concourse Building.
20160712. Toronto’s brilliant 1910 Lumsden Building sees its reflection for the first time.
20160711. The 1960, recently restored, modernist Hamilton City Hall looks like it was built yesterday.
20160710. Toronto’s late modern St. Andrew’s United Church sits hidden near Bloor and Church.
20160709. Incandescent versus Fluorescent in the battle of light fixtures.
20160707. Toronto’s octagonal, stainless-steel clad and still current Weston Centre tower.
Leslie Rebanks, 1975, International Style
20160706. The complex cubic massing of the Shangri-La Hotel podium’s south side.
20160705. John B. Parkin’s modernist Celestica (formerly IBM) Offices (1965) face demolition as the Crosstown comes to Don Mills and Eglinton.
20160704. The Cathedral of Learning and the Heinz Memorial Chapel, aligned companions at the University of Pittsburgh.
20160703. John B. Parkin’s forever contemporary Ortho Pharmaceutical Building (1955).
