20211030. The Well is rising fast.
Monthly Archives: October 2021
20211029. The Entertainment District (now the Toronto Downtown West BIA) is construction central with tower cranes active at Nobu Residences Toronto, Maverick, 55 Mercer and 19 Duncan.
20211028. Wellesley Station’s second entrance at 17 Dundonald Street is reconstructed nine feet north of the original building shown here in 2015.
20211027. The Herbert H. Carnegie Centennial Centre (Hockey rink). Architect Irving D. Boigon, 1967. Does anyone know if this arena has always been cladded in aluminum?
20211026. The colourful, playful and award-winning Sharp Centre for Design at OCAD completed by ALSOP Architects in 2004.
20211025. The Village By the Grange is a large scale mixed use project completed in 1980 by the ubiquitous WZMH Architects.
20211024. The north entrance to the understated formal modernism of the Toronto Court House (Marani Morris & Allan, 1966).
20211023. Toronto’s first commercial timber-framed building is in Liberty Village.
20211022. Signs of the new St. Lawrence Market North have finally appeared.
20211021. The Monoliths Of Royal Bank Plaza … are gone!
20211020. A distorted view of Shangri-La.
20211019. 1960s vs. 1980s.
20211018. Five cherry pickers lifts line up in front of the new Scotia Bank North Tower at the Bay Adelaide Centre.
20211017. Boake’s Brutalist Bramalea Building (Crang & Boake, 1971).
20211016. The blank paneled podium at 4950 Yonge Street (Page + Steele, 1986).
20211015. The paneled brutalism of the Toronto District School Board Head Office (Mathers & Haldenby, 1970).
20211014. The new Davisville Junior Public School is a far cry from the original. Frankly speaking, the only positive thing I can say about this new school is that it is new.
20211013. Uno Prii’s 666 Spadina looks new again.
20211012. The Symes Incinerator Sure Has Changed Over The Last seven Years (Image seT 2 of 2) (2021 Vs 2014).
20211011. The new Waterfront Innovation Centre is now complete and open.
20211010. Robarts Common, a much needed expansion to Robarts Library, flanks its west side. What do you think of this addition?
20211009. There’s something very appealing about this view of a quadrilateral tower rising above simple but stylish townhouses.
20211008. An airport antenna array at Toronto Pearson.
20211007. Just like that, the Gardiner Expressway east end ramps are gone!
20211006. 720 Spadina Ave (Eugene Janiss, 1973) is a Brutalist mixed-use tower with an commercial base oriented perpendicularly to a residential tower which presents an almost blank face to the street.
