20220331. Inside a large empty industrial warehouse destined to be demolished to make way for a new and more efficient large industrial warehouse.
Monthly Archives: March 2022
With Rehearsal Factory on Front Street closed, finding music rehearsal space in Toronto is harder. The building itself awaits demolition but the front facade will be saved.
20220329. Three of four corners at Front and Parliament currently await redevelopment including the First Parliament site and land needed for building the Ontario Line subway.
20220328. The Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema has that art moderne vibe.
20220327. Fenestration can be fun at night II.
20220326. Fenestration can be fun at night.
20220325. The new entrance to Kennedy station and the Eglinton Crosstown is an excellent place to mount a cell tower.
20220324. The imposing monolithic St. Roch’s Church.
20220323. C is for curved and cylindrical and concrete. Minimal Aesthetic #168.
20220322. Although overcast here, the Toronto West Seventh Day Adventist Church casts a shadow shaped like a mountain with regular peaks.
20220321. Don’t you just love that corduroy concrete in the morning sun?
20220320. The Holy Word Church spreads its word from a small cute Gothic Revival style building on McCaul.
20220319. The amazing Mount Olive Seventh-day Adventist Church with its high pitch curved roof (rear).
20220318. The amazing Mount Olive Seventh-day Adventist Church with its curved and spiked concave gable (front).
20220317. Lawrence Square has been rebranded the Lawrence Allen Centre complete with a recladding of its postmodern shell.
20220316. #Rexdale 4. Mounds of dirt stand where a new mall will replace the demolished Sears warehouse in Rexdale. One of the first Contact Photo exhibits I went to featured photos of mounds not unlike these ones. Guess it stuck with me.
20220315. As the GO grows. GO Expansion includes the Davenport Guideway and Greenway (a park under an elevated railway). Once past Wallace Ave, the guideway returns to ground.
20220314. As the GO grows. GO Expansion includes the Davenport Guideway and Greenway – a park created by an elevated railway crossing over the CP Rail tracks at the Davenport Diamond.
20220313. An Art Deco inspired parking garage in pink and orange near hospital row.
20220312. The Toronto Marine Safety School sits in the shadow of brutalism at the Westin Harbour Castle.
20220311. A Ledbury Park modern mid-rise office building awaits demolition. Interesting features include curved brise soleil at the top and a semi-elliptical walkway.
20220310. This mixed-use strip mall features a breeze wall on the upper floor providing privacy to renters.
20220309. Rexdale Mall was built in 1956, enclosed in 1972, demolished in 2004 yet the former Zellars/Towers structure survives as the Fresh Value grocery store and a bunch of small businesses – a true Remnant of Mid-Century Toronto.
20220308. The googie gas bar (Canadian Tire, Rexdale, 1968). Googie architecture can also be called expressionist, mid-century modern, space age, Populuxe and Doo Wop and originates at the defunct Googies Coffee Shop in Hollywood. The style features curvilinear geometric shapes and upswept roofs.
20220308. The Don Mouth Naturalization and Port Lands Flood Protection Project is progressing (https://bit.ly/3CrbrZs).
