Monthly Archives: January 2017
20170129. Looking up at the octagonally-framed circular dome at Gouinlock’s Government Building (Beaux Arts in Baroque Classical style, 1912).
20170128. A psychedelic mid-century modernist brick wall at 103 Avenue Road featuring alternating smooth-turquoise-stretcher and buff-yellow-header brick. Minimal Aesthetic 106.
20170127. A TTC Flexity Outlook LRV zooms past the Radisson Admiral Hotel on Queens Quay.
20170126. Fifteen fenestra facade at the doomed LCBO warehouse. Minimal Aesthetic 105.
20170125. Looking up at the First Canadian Place tower from behind bars.
20170124. The Ice Breakers hands frame the building that shall soon be replaced by a Quadrangle Architects tower.
20170123. Entering TTC’s Humber Loop tunnel under the Gardiner Expressway.
20170122. The triangular King Highline residential and retail complex between King West and the rail corridor is rising fast.
20170121. Half Mile Bridge on the Don Branch Railway.
20170120. This Parkdale double duplex is a a modern day tribute to Toronto’s distinctive Bay And Gable architecture.
20170119. The Globe and Mail’s second building, like its first (from where this entranceway comes), will soon be demolished.
20170118. The Eglinton Grand, a national historic site and elaborate and luxurious example of Art Deco architecture (1936), is back as an elegant event space. #Toronto, #architecture, Canada’s Historic Places
20170117. Currently, the Deer Park United Church (1912, Gothic Revival) is open to everyone.
20170116. The 1912 Gothic Revival Deer Park United Church awaits its future condo development with interior exposed (image 2).
20170115. Deer Park United Church is transcept-free. The apse and attached two-floor buildings that obscured the apse have been removed but the remainder will adjoin a new condominium development (image 1).
20170114. Daylight penetrates both ends of TTC’s curved yellow-lit Humber Loop tunnel (Route 501 Queen).
20170113. A profile view of a 61,000 kg GO Transit bi-level coach and cab car sitting in the Union Station trainshed.
20170112. The Nathan Philips Square colonnade. ( col·on·nade \kä-lə-ˈnād\ – a series of columns set at regular intervals and usually supporting the base of a roof structure).
20170110. A GO Train prepares for imminent departure from Union Station.
20170110. Facades of Victorian houses on Glen Road in North St. James Town have been restored from dereliction (http://goo.gl/2NZhAf) as part of a Lanterra Developments’ project.
20170109. The Humber Loop on TTC Route 501 Queen closed yesterday and will remain closed for much of 2017 to facilitate its renewal including new tracks, platforms, shelters, tunnel walkway and new roof for service building.
20170108. The Art Deco Concourse Building at 100 Adelaide St W is back.
20170107. The contemporary Worklofts condos and the modern I-Zone Lofts have opposing diagonals.
20170106. In an anthropogenic canyon in Toronto’s Financial District.
