Monthly Archives: December 2020
20201230. Tudor Brutalism church architecture.
20201229. The ventilation stacks and chambers of Plant Complex 3 Building 36 (1952), a jet engine repair and testing facility at the former de Havilland Aircraft Company campus at Downsview Park.
20201228. Enigma on the Park is certainly an enigma and a place to be cautious if hallucinating.
20201227. Woodworth College Facade.
20201226. 477 Mount Pleasant Road (1960) is quite modern for a mid-century office building.
20201225. The Bunker Mosque on Birchmount.
20201224. Time is up for a mid-century strip mall at Eglinton and Kennedy as construction continues on the Crosstown right out front.
20201223. The entirely fenced in pedestrian bridge over the GO Transit and Scarborough Rapid Transit lines.
20201222. The townhouses at 1031 Midland Avenue where the complex is far more appealing than the individual homes.
20201221. The Symes Incinerator sure has changed over the last seven years (2020 vs 2013).
20201220. Inside the facade of the 1942 Administrative Office of the Drug Trading Company and soon to be EQ Bank Tower.
20201219. The aptly named Outllook Manor at 55 Outlook Ave and Jane St sits at the top of the Black Creek Valley.
20201218. The covered concrete and glass walkway along the Progress Ave ramp over McCowan Ave is still fairly appealing.
20201217. St. Charles Garnier Church front and rear, Hamilton.
20201216. Remembering the old GO Transit concourse at Union Station (1979) and one of its nicest design elements – the doors.
20201215. The vacant Toronto Hydro transformer substation at 281 Cherry Street is a modest example of Edwardian Classical styling from 1928.
20201214. St Philip Neri Catholic Church (1959) with its four oddly placed barrel shapes out front with stucco covered brick. Might they be confessionals?
20201213. After 17 years of operation, the old $9 000 000 GO Bus Terminal at 141 Bay Street is being demolished.
20201212. The new Storm Water Quality Facility (SWQF) at Lake Shore and Cherry to treat urban run-off from new West Don Lands development.
220201211. Looking West from the Cherry Street Bridge at the mouth of the Ship Channel in the rapidly changing Port Lands.
20201210. Smokestack. The decommissioned Richard L. Hearn Thermal Generating Station has no fence keeping urban explorers away.
20201209. With mobile gantry cranes parked and no girders to be seen, it seems that Phase 1 of the Gardiner Expressway Rehabilitation from Jarvis to Cherry Streets is just about done.
20201208. Capturing the past and the future of Toronto’s Port Lands (Don Mouth Naturalization Project by Waterfront Toronto).
20201207. The new Union Station bus terminal is now open but there isn’t much to see. It’s as bland as the new GO Train concourse and the boarding area is not visible to the public.
