Monthly Archives: March 2020
20200329. 350 Bloor Street East is a decent little 1970 brutalist building by Toronto’s Parkin Partnership Architects.
20200328. An intricate ceiling at Sam Pollock Square in Toronto’s Brookfield Place (Architect Santiago Calatrava, c.1992).
20200327. Big Boy Hot Dog was one of the cheapest places to satisfy a weiner craving until the viruses shut him down. Where am I gonna get my footlong fix now?
20200326. I hope this pandemic puts many of you into high gear. Life is precious after all!
20200325. The monoliths of Royal Bank Plaza.
20200324. Looking up at the EY Tower’s very interesting northwest corner at the Richmond-Adelaide Centre.
20200323. An impressive array of scaffolding slowly takes over the facade of the Ontario Government’s Mowat Block as they prepare to move, assess and pallet all limestone pavers on the building as part of the Macdonald Block Resconstruction Project.
20200322. The Sheraton Centre Toronto has some nice lines. John B. Parkin Associates with design consultant Seppo Valjus, 1972.
20200321. There is nobody at the Union Station GO Transit bus terminal. Saturday March 21, 2020 15:41.
20200321. How to stand in lines for critical supplies at the LCBO – just think of all that disinfectant in bottles – while practicing social distancing.
20200320. One of the postmodern elements at Commerce Court added in the 1990s by Zeidler Partnership Architects.
20200319. Few bipedal primate mammals at this pandemic. Yonge and Front, 2020Mar18 17:08. Is this how the transition from gathering in offices to working at home in the virtual workplace starts?
20200318. The long and empty GO Transit corridor to platforms 24-27 Wednesday at 5:53 PM during Ontario’s coronavirus pandemic state of emergency.
20200317. GO Transit had barren platforms at rush hour on this day when Ontario declared a state of emergency.
20200316. From here, Yonge Street seems to be a boulevard of facades.
20200315. The rear facade of Toronto’s Seventh Post Office (1853, a national historic site) where Conrad Black was taped removing document boxes from his office.
20200314. Entering the Green P Parking Garage at 40 York Street.
20200313. Behind the Toronto Hydro-Electric System Windsor Station and its two eras of architecture.
20200312. Pretty lights on a construction site that is now a Nordstrom – from 2015.
20200311. Coronavirus has temporarily solved Toronto’s rush hour traffic woes.
20200310. Hanging out at a modern second level industrial park in the Junction from 1969.
20200309. A new rental tower has attached itself to LuCliff Place resulting in a consolidated structure that leaves me speechless.
20200308. Inside the facade of the future 2 Queen Street West.
20200307. A tower crane on a parkade to help build 2 Queen Street West.
