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20200529. The late-modern St. Andrew’s United Church. Page & Steele, 1983.

May 30, 2020 Vik

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20200528. One York ventilation shaft. Minimal Aesthetic 148.

May 30, 2020 Vik

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20200527. Monochrome Honeycomb.

May 29, 2020 Vik

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20200526. Expressway bents frame 10 York and the parkade behind it.

May 27, 2020 Vik

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20200525. The laneway between modern and contemporary.

May 25, 2020 Vik

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20200524. Expressway bents frame this Ten York Condos facade.

May 24, 2020 Vik

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20200523. Expressway bents frame this Scotiabank Arena facade.

May 24, 2020 Vik

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20200522. Although the Scarborough Rapid Transit opened at Kennedy station in 1985, it has a mid-century modern space age look.

May 22, 2020 Vik

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20200520. Donvale Manor looks rather regal with its crown of cell site panel antennas.

May 20, 2020 Vik

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20200519. Finance and psychiatry go pretty good together. Ministry of Finance vs. Toronto Psychiatric Hospital (Surrey Place).

May 19, 2020 Vik

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20200518. Laneway to a modern 1968 high-rise at Pelham Park Gardens.

May 18, 2020 Vik

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20200517. The Junction’s namesake, the Junction Crossing, is now the West Toronto Diamond Grade Separation with one track going under the other improving service for CN, CP and GO Transit.

May 17, 2020 Vik

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20200516. The West Don Lands are starting to change as the Gardiner Expressway is rehabilitated – rail is being removed, brush has been cleared and old businesses are gone.

May 16, 2020 Vik

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20200515. The uniquely clad postmodern St. Dunstan’s Roman Catholic Church (1981).

May 15, 2020 Vik

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20200514. Today marks the ninth anniversary of this daily Toronto photography blog as we look up at a fancy ceiling inside some new condo. Thanks for looking!!

May 15, 2020 Vik

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20200513. Ripley vs Delta.

May 13, 2020 Vik

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20200512. The aluminum-paneled SQ2 in the new Alexandra Park features colours of the old Alexandra Park.

May 13, 2020 Vik

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20200511. The 1965 St. Josaphat Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral.

May 12, 2020 Vik

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20200510. Another chunk of old Alexandra Park’s ‘brick brutalist’ townhouses are ready for demolition.

May 11, 2020 Vik

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20200509. The next piece of the Gardiner Expressway to be transported into place waits overnight at the fabrication site in the West Don Lands.

May 9, 2020 Vik

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20200508. The fairly remarkable 1974 Crossways apartment towers at Bloor and Dundas have a surprisingly narrow west profile.

May 7, 2020 Vik

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20200507. Infrastructure framing infrastructure. Lake Shore Boulevard East by the Keating Channel.

May 7, 2020 Vik

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20200506. Bloor Dundas Square seems to have three entirely different tower sections unappealingly stacked on top of each other – retail, office and residential.

May 7, 2020 Vik

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20200506. Construction equipment terra-forming the Port Lands looks cute from a distance.

May 7, 2020 Vik

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20200505. The 1930 East Toronto Masonic Temple clubhouse

May 5, 2020 Vik

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