Monthly Archives: August 2016
20160830. Inside the Deloitte atrium of the new Bay Adelaide Centre East and its suspended staircase.
20160829. Taking down Tim Hortons and a licensed rooming house to make way for Grid Condos.
20160828. An aerial view on a Mies van der Rohe masterpiece – the TD Centre.
20160827. The bridge to Atlantis – a pavilion at Ontario Place.
20160826. Moss Park Modernism.
20160825. Playing in the skylight corridor at North York Centre.
Moriyama and Teshima Architects, 1989.
20160824. Make a brutalist building brutal with a skirt of contemporary cladding.
20160823. The Elgin building, now part of the Bay Adelaide Centre podium, sports a ghost wall extension.
Updated or built in 1910 by James Havill for Holt, Renfrew & Co., purveyors of fur at the time, this building originally occupied the northwest corner of Yonge and Adelaide as part of the 1850 Elgin building (See the image below for what the building looked like before being moved – Vik Pahwa, Jan 2013). The facade was moved north to Temperance Street for the Bay Adelaide Centre. The building was elongated to house mechanical equipment on its upper floors for the adjacent building. The extension, a modern addition cast from the original building facade, is known as a ghost wall.
20160822. The Toronto South Detention Centre maximum security building can hold 1650 male remanded offenders.
20160821. The 1931 Art Deco Horse Palace at Exhibition Place.
20160820. The Fashion District’s Fashion House Condos.
20160819. Toronto’s CityPlace skyline.
20160818. Geometric Variance. Minimal Aesthetic 97.
20160817. Looking down at one of the longest unsupported escalators in North America.
20160816. North York’s mirrored monolith (Nestle Building).
20160815. Opened 1971 and closed 2011, Ontario Place continues to feel contemporary.
20160814. Functional modernism at Parkdale’s Seabreeze Apartments in Toronto.
20160813. A new facade joins a heritage commercial strip on Yorkville’s Scollard Street.
20160812. A Toronto TTC Flexity Outlook LRV does the Charlotte Loop (510 Spadina).
20160811. The towering modernist forms of St. James Town at night.
Looking west from Parliament Street. Several buildings are named for Canadian cities – the white building with shapely balconies is the Toronto and in the distance the right tower is the Hamilton.
20160810. The tiny New World Laundry is dominated by the high-rises of St. James Town.
In the 1960s, during redevelopment of the area, the then owner refused to sell.
20160809. The modernist Bathville Towers (1966) of North York – reminiscent of a castle’s curtain wall and its keep.
20160808. U.S. Steel sits quietly in Hamilton Harbour.
20160807. Looking up at the Winnipeg (1968) of St. James Town where the buildings are named after Canadian cities.
