Monthly Archives: March 2020
20200210. Living in Brutalism at Moss Park’s 1974 Centrepoint East high-rise complex.
20200209. The new pedestrian bridge linking the future CIBC Square (and GO Transit Bus Station) to the PATH via the Scotiabank Arena is looking pretty good. Of course there are windows on the south side.
20200208. The Honest Ed’s redevelopment construction site shows just how big Honest Ed’s was. No wonder I got lost in there all the time.
20200207. Finding beauty at Bathurst Station is as difficult as finding rational people in today’s political climate. Here is an attempt.
20200206. Mirvish Village is looking a bit different these days.
20200205. Look for the Golden Arches (1960 slogan)! You deserve a break today (1971 slogan). We do it all for you (1975 slogan) but not at King and Dufferin where the McDonald’s is being demolished for – you guessed it – more condos!
20200204. The work going on in the port lands – the Don River mouth naturalization project – is nothing short of terraforming Toronto.
20200203. Featuring Tonight. Bumping & Grinding and Vice Versa! This is the best place to watch a Leaf game! Filmores Hotel is closing! Bought by Menkes for $31.5 million, it will most likely be demolished.
20200202. Toronto City Council has endorsed replacing the brutalist St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts with a new state-of-the-art cultural and civic hub.
20200201. The McDonald Block complex, the administrative hub of the Ontario government, is undergoing a major reconstruction that will replace all core building systems.
20200131. Satellite Dish Place, Regent Park.
20200130. In the bowels of an institution.
20200129. The greenhouse-inspired structure above the patio outside New Fort Hall at Hotel X. The hall features glass floors both in and out with foundations of former barracks of nearby Fort York below.
20200128. Backlit patterned glass wall. Can anyone guess the building?
20200127. An LCBO right out of what I presume is the 1970s. 1090 The Queensway.
20200126. The mechanical penthouse at 48 Yonge Street (at Wellington) reveals that this was a modernist building reclad in marble and mirrored glass.
20200125. A shack and 10 legs of a tank.
20200124. The slick 1971 Forest Hills residential high-rise of Westminster, North York.
20200123. Modernist Congregation B’Nai Torah.
20200122. Thales Canada (formerly IBM) at 105 Moatfield Drive is a great example of a Brutalist office tower (Crang & Boake, 1982).
20200121. Goodbye to University of Toronto’s Best (left, 1954) and Banting (right, 1930) Institutes named for the two men that discovered and commercialized insulin in 1922. They will be replaced by the Schwartz Reisman Innovation Centre.
20200120. At Front and Wellington sits a postmodern condo built to anticipate another building with only an insignificant building in front – the perfect development site yet it has no application.
20200119. Modernist zigzag concrete breeze block walls stylishly hide what is most likely a TTC power substation at Broadview Station.
20200118. Looking up from inside the 1968 Etobicoke Cenotaph at the Etobicoke Civic Centre.
