Monthly Archives: February 2021
20210226. Pink postmodern townhouses in the Garden District with that second empire look.
20210225. Looking through an empty commercial space at Hydro Place among reflections of stone on carpet and Orde Street.
20210224. At the Government of Ontario ziggurat (222 Jarvis), one will find four ministries.
20210223. The construction office at 19 Duncan is mounted directly to the facade support structure.
20210222. The slender north facade of the Monde Condominiums on the East Bayfront. Moshe Safdie and Quadrangle Architects, 2016.
20210221. A side profile of the impressive Brutalist Masters Condos of Etobicoke’s Markland Wood.
20210220. The pleasing lines of Balfour Square. Seligman and Dick, 1969.
20210219. The Padulo Building North Facade. Sigmund D.F. Reszetnik, 1968.
20210218. Contrasting the unique Round Hill Condos stepped-out original west facade and aluminum-sided east facade which give it a concave footprint.
20210217. The dirty deconstructivist CBC Broadcast Centre.
20210216. Looking up at the Canada Trust Tower at Brookfield Place.
20210215. The north wall of the TC Douglas Housing Co-op townhomes makes for a very dull view over the triangular parking lot and driveway at the neighbouring townhouse complex.
20210214. The modern St. Thomas Syro-Malabar Catholic Forane Church.
20210213. Sometimes the demolition of one building reveals an impressive view of another. Jorgensen Hall, Ryerson University, WZMH Architects, 1971.
20210212. The shifting balconies of the 1Thousand Bay Condos.
20210211. There is a lot of streetcar infrastructure at King and Dufferin. Oh and that’s JW Gouch’s 1913 A.B. Ormsby pressed metal factory showroom in the background.
20210210. Colourful Artscape Weston Common is Artscape’s newest community cultural hub.
20210209. A postmodern building gets ready to bite the dust. Sometimes demolition is a good thing!
20210208. Scotia Plaza Tower Grid.
20210207. Frost Building North and South, a landmark of modern office building architecture in Canada.
20210206. With the reconstructed Kipling Station Passenger Pick-up building including a much needed elevator, it no longer has that open feeling of the original building.
20210205. The Theory Condos, a well-crafted and plausible place to live.
20210204. The Government of Ontario’s Whitney Block is wearing a scaffolding and tarp dress.
20210203. Partial demolition of the original Maclean Publishing Company building (Sproatt & Rolph, 1911) rear on Centre Street has left only the once striking buttresses standing.
