Monthly Archives: April 2020
20200428. Looking up at the Grange Apartments on McCaul Street yields interesting concrete detailing on a stairwell enclosure.
20200427. Reflections of sunlight from a neighbouring mirrored tower give Toronto Police 52 Division a festive look.
20200426. The stony eastern terminus of the Gardiner Expressway.
20200425. The industrial streamline moderne City of Toronto South District Operations building at 786 Dundas St E.
20200424. The sun glints over the Sun Life Centre.
20200423. A homeless person sleeps in front of the Neo-Georgian National Club that offers its members a private downtown enclave. Curry Sproatt & Rolph, 1907.
20200422. A blank arrivals and departures board in the Great Hall shows just how quiet Union Station is these days.
20200421. Several fire-damaged houses with fake mullioned board windows greet passersby on George St. as they wait to be included in the redevelopment of the next door Seaton House, one of the largest homeless shelters in Toronto.
20200420. Sun but no life at the Sun Life Building.
20200419. The back (but not the altar side) of St. Wilfrid’s Roman Catholic Church seems more like a Brutalist air traffic control tower.
20200418. The funky shadows of this part of Humber Valley United Church.
20200417. Above Ground, the art supply store under Alsop’s table top. Sharp Centre for Design, OCAD University, 2004.
20200416. Under the podium of the Toronto Superior Court of Justice Courthouse (FH Marani, 1966).
20200415. The brutalist SickKids Centre for Community Mental Health (formerly the Hincks Dellcrest Centre) at Jarvis and Wellesley. Shore & Moffat, 1967.
20200414. The only time the Four Seasons Hotel driveway is empty is during a pandemic-induced state of emergency.
20200413. The clean modern lines and reflecting bright white windows of Sidney Smith Hall (Parkin, 1961) at University of Toronto.
20200412. The modernist Moss Park Armoury (Page & Steele Architects, 1966) is home of the Canadian Army’s 7th Toronto Regiment.
20200411. Demolition on Elizabeth Street has revealed some fine brutalism at the Enwave Walton Street Steam Plant.
20200410. Stop the Spread. Yonge-Dundas Square.
20200409. Five high-rise condos surround a small 1983 brick and concrete tower at the once low-rise intersection of Jarvis and Dundas.
20200408. The fairly brutalist 1973 Parkside Student Residence (formerly the Best Western Primrose Hotel) at Jarvis and Carlton.
20200407. Stairs and shiny stainless steel at Commerce Court West. I.M Pei, 1972.
20200406. At 3:40 PM on a Monday, Toronto’s SkyWalk and entrance to UP Express is empty.
20200405. The prominent pillars of Peter Street courtesy of Tableau Condominiums.
