Monthly Archives: February 2017
20160226. Go to Carmen’s Steak House just for the facade.
20170225. Looking down Yonge Street from Summerhill, the downtown core seems to be sprouting buildings.
20170224. Take the contemporary addition to the historic wing at Humber College Lakeshore Campus.
20170223. The billboard towers of the Ordnance Triangle apex mark the tip of the future Garrison Point development.
20170222. Sunset-drenched slab block Modernism at Village Green by Architect John H. Daniels (2/2)
20170221. The 1935 art deco Allenby Theatre, once the Roxy and Toronto home to the The Rocky Horror Picture Show and now a Tim Hortons, designed by the master theatre architects Kaplan & Sprachman, and built for about $10,500.
20170220. Cylindrical Modernism at Village Green by Architect John H. Daniels.
20170218. Skateboarding under murals on an unseasonably warm February afternoon.
20170217. Excavators and stained glass windows, together for a short time during the last days of the Woodgreen Church.
20170216. Dismantling a government building on a government block.
20170215. The unique fusing of contemporary and modernist highrise architecture at 66 Isabella.
20170214. Welcome to the Humber College Lakeshore Campus Welcome Centre.
20170213. Podium glass distortions at the Casa Condos at 33 Charles Street East.
20170212. The brutalist blockiness of 55 St. Clair West (Esso Place, WZMH Architects, 1981).
20170211. This charming unkempt building at College and Huron faces demolition then inaccurate facadism as part of the Design Haus condos by developer Shiu Pong and Kirkor Architects.
20170210. The cute rowhouses of Belmont Street, renovated in 1962 by Joan Burt, the only woman in Ontario at the time with an architectural practice actively working as an architect.
20170209. The highly fenestrated 31-storey Yorkville Condominiums.
20170208. The NOW Magazine building is being demolished now to make way for the 29 storey Fleur Condos (Menkes Developments / Architects Alliance).
20170207. The vintage modernist Oriole Arms apartments in Toronto’s Deer Park neighbourhood.
20170206. Reflecting on the new PATH connection to the new Sun Life Financial Tower.
20170205. The College condominiums, aptly named for the street they are on, sport multi-coloured glass balconies on the west side catching the afternoon sun.
20170204. Fluorescent light shadows emanate from where ceiling meets wall. Minimal Aesthetic 107.
20170203. Looking up at a transformer tower at the A. W. Manby Transformer Station.
20170202. The new Class A Leed Platinum 35-storey Sun Life Financial Tower is now open.
