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20190530. An abandoned mid-century strip mall in Victoria Village awaits demolition to make way for the Vic Towns North Park stacked townhouse development that boasts being 10 minutes away from the future Eglinton Crosstown LRT.

May 31, 2019 Vik

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20190529. The Wexford Presbyterian Church, a 1963 modernist gem by Dunlop Matsui.

May 29, 2019 Vik

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20190528. Transformer Home 1. A transformer home contains a transformer that converts high voltage energy to a lower voltage that can be distributed for use throughout a neighbourhood.

May 29, 2019 Vik

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20190527. The Eglinton Maintenance and Storage Facilty maintenance pit where Crosstown LRVs will be serviced.

May 28, 2019 Vik

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20190525. Looking up at 411 Church.

May 25, 2019 Vik

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20190524. Behind the facades of 19 Duncan Street, a future mixed-use development featuring a 58 storey condo tower.

May 24, 2019 Vik

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20190523. The 1927 neo-Gothic warehouse-loft Fashion Building by Kaplan & Sprachman at Spadina Ave and Richmond St W.

May 24, 2019 Vik

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20190522. Benjamin Brown’s 1927 art deco Tower Building.

May 23, 2019 Vik

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20190521. The inline conical pylons of Douglas Coupland’s public art “Four Seasons.”

May 23, 2019 Vik

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20190520. The first CIBC Square tower and the steel support structure for its park rise behind the current Union Station Bus terminal, which is the future site of the second CIBC Square tower.

May 23, 2019 Vik

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20190519. 1972 rough-hewn concrete modernism. 240 Duncan Mill Rd, Toronto.

May 23, 2019 Vik
In 2009, a concrete slab, the building’s brise-soleil or sun baffle, fell of the building with 100 people inside.
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20190518. The doomed buildings of Commerce Court.

May 23, 2019 Vik

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20190517. Looking up at the tip of Ten York Street.

May 23, 2019 Vik

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20190516. Today (actually May 14th – I forgot my own anniversary) marks the 8th anniversary for this daily photography blog. Thanks for looking!

May 22, 2019 Vik

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20190515. Vanishing down the pedestrian bridge to Toronto Pearson International Airport’s Terminal 1 Express Park Garage.

May 22, 2019 Vik

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20190514. Inside the pedestrian bridge between Yorkdale Mall and Yorkdale Station.

May 15, 2019 Vik

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20190513. A Brutalist wait for a train at Eglinton West Station

May 14, 2019 Vik

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20190509. 372 Richmond St W, a four-storey brick and beam building.

May 10, 2019 Vik

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20190507. A pair of mobile rubber-tired Shuttlelift gantry cranes stand ready to assist in pre-constructing new sections for the Gardiner Expressway East re-build.

May 8, 2019 Vik

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20190502. Go check out the Stackt Market, the modular shipping container market at Bathurst and Front.

May 3, 2019 Vik

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20190501. The Arthur Erickson designed Eglinton West Station features a 70 metre hexagonal concrete waffle roof with numerous skylights supported by 8 large round columns.

May 2, 2019 Vik

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20190430. The Arthur Erickson designed Eglinton West Station features a 70 metre hexagonal concrete waffle slab roof that appears to hover over the station.

May 1, 2019 Vik

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  • 20251231. Building Tops V. Take the stairs through the barely perceptible doorway.
  • 20251230. Building Tops IV. Royal York squared.
  • 20251229. Building Tops III. The top of the art deco Victory Building (Baldwin & Greene, 1930).
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