Monthly Archives: February 2020
20200102. Above the stairwell at St. Clair Station.
20200101. Here’s to another year of photography. Happy 2020!
20191231. Raise the roof in 2020!
20191230. Matching mid-rises in the Church and Wellesley neighbourhood.
20191229. Behind the facades of 19 Duncan Street, a future mixed-use development, significant progress has been made on excavation.
20191228. Taking advantage of a facade’s support structure in lighting a construction hoarding walkway at King and Peter.
20191227. The best construction hoarding in Toronto could be at Wellington and York, around the 1888 Toronto Club.
20191226. Modern lines in a Mimico industrial park.
20191225. Taking advantage of facadism to sneak a peek at the Shangri-La Hotel.
20191224. Birth of Light by @jacquiecomrie at 291 Lake Shore Boulevard East.
20191223. The Redpath Sugar Shed Sennebogen 880 EQ unloading crane on a frozen Jarvis Slip.
20191222. A neon mural at 150 Eglinton Ave E by David Gunn, Drew Billiau and Media Resources International.
20191221. The new Aitken Place Park at East Bayfront reminds me of two things – a certain road in San Francisco and High Parl after a prescribed burn.
20191220. The anatomy of a fire exit stairwell.
20191219. Randomly lit windows set the Couture Condominium (Bloor/Jarvis) apart from neighbouring high-rises on a foggy night.
20191218. The partial 1870 Andrew McFarren Building at 237 Queen St E. once extended along Queen St to Sherbourne St to the right but was truncated for a bank branch that no longer exists.
20191217. 488 University Avenue, formerly 38-storeys shorter and Brutalist, towers over Chinatown at Spadina and Dundas.
20191216. Although the days of old Alexandra Park’s brutalist brick townhomes are numbered, they continue to intrigue with unexpected symmetry.
20191215. A row of six townhouses and 12 homes on Queen Street East in Trefann Court.
20191214. The Rosehill Pumping Station.
20191213. Wilmar Heights Baptist Church.
20191212. Bent (engineering): a traverse framework to carry lateral as well as vertical loads such as the demolished Bay off-ramp from the Gardiner Expressway that this one carried. Can we please save at least one?
20191211. Carlton Street is a corridor of architectural eras.
20191210. When you step back and look at Wellesley Station, it’s apparent that design was irrelevant even though this building is a subway station, bus terminal, apartment building’s amenity mezzanine and parking garage.
