Monthly Archives: December 2016
20161231. “A bargain centre like this happens once in a lifetime!!!” How true.
20161230. Striking blue tiles line the sidewalks under #Toronto’s 1960 Avenue Road CP #Rail #Bridge. #infrastructure #cityofTO
20161229. Inside the open podium under the Tableau Condominiums.
20161228. Five GO Trains depart Union station heading westbound during rush hour.
20161227. Winter has arrived outside and inside the PATH (Sun Life Centre Concourse Entrance). #Toronto, #art, #PATH, Toronto PATH, Toronto Financial District BIA, Financial District, Toronto
20161226. The Milburn building on Colborne Street – designed by the “master practitioner” of Richardsonian Romanesque architecture, E.J. Lennox (architect of Casa Loma and Old City Hall).
20161225. Only two walls of the heritage-designated 1927 Canadian Westinghouse Building remain standing as construction commences on the future two-building King Blue Condominium and Hotel complex.
20161224. Michael Snow’s Lightline art feature is finally active on the Trump International Hotel & Tower Toronto.
20161223. Looking up at the Trump International Hotel & Tower Toronto Lightline art feature that’s finally active but only after the developer defaulted on its debt and put the building up for sale – the name Trump will no longer disgrace the skyscraper.
20161221. Toronto’s beautiful Bank of Nova Scotia building banking hall features marble columns and counters, coffered decorated ceiling and a lovely clock.
20161220. Celebrated Canadian architect Uno Prii, known for sculpted concrete buildings in Toronto, dabbled with rectilinear forms in his later years including the 1983 Brutalist Alan Brown Building, a staff residence for The Hospital for Sick Children.
20161219. The Art Deco facade’s fenestration compliments the contemporary condo curtain wall at Burano Condos.
20161218. The 226 m Canadian Self Discharging Bulk Carrier BAIE ST. PAUL (CFN6120) blocks the 155 m long Jarvis Street Slip to unload at Redpath Sugar.
20161217. Scotia Plaza Tower Grid.
20161216. Pedestrian at Parkade Entrance. Green P Parking’s for you!
20161215. The 1925 Gothic Revival McLaughlin Motor Car Showroom facade now forms part of the ground floor of the Burano Condominiums (Architects Alliance, ERA Architects, 2012).
20161214. 488 University; before an impressive concrete facade and now a glass envelope awaiting another 37 storeys.
20161213. Like Snowpiercer, the Union Pearson Express flies through snow on the tracks (GO Weston Subdivision) to Union Station during Toronto’s first accumulated snowfall.
20161212. Once painted greyish blue, this revived picturesque 1888 Queen Anne house shows its original red brick. 110 Park Road, Rosedale.
20161211. Demolition of the Bnai Fishel Towers parking garage is underway.
20161210. Toronto’s Bloor St E skyline rises above the Rosedale Valley tree line and the Branksome Hall sports field.
20161209. Citigroup Place defines the foot of University Avenue.
20161208. The nearly finished SQ Condominiums in #Toronto’s redeveloping Alexandra Park, contrast strongly but fittingly with the turn of the century mid-rise commercial buildings of Spadina Avenue.
20161207. Mirrors, lines and geometry at the Sun Life Centre.
