20230630. Looking up, way up at 19 Duncan.
Monthly Archives: June 2023
20230629. Look at the extension on that fire hydrant!
20230628. The Beaches XI: The singular Silverbirch Housing Co-operative.
20230627. Do we really need more glass office boxes downtown? Bay Adelaide Centre (from 2016).
20230626. The Beaches X: Welcome to The Boardwalk (1929) at 2405 Queen Street East. Yet another interesting facade in the Beach.
20230625. This 1906 S. Price and Sons Dairy Building (worth $31,000 then), and most recently Diamond Taxi, is an example of Edwardian Classicism by J. Francis Brown.
20230624. A tower at MacDonald Block looking all shiny and new.
20230623. The Beaches IX: Shall we call Brookmount Place (1836 Queen Street East) an Edwardian Revival with Spanish or Tudor detailings?
20220622. Wellington Street is moving on up.
20220621. The Beaches VIII: In 1997, the Toronto United Mennonite Church built this postmodern oddity after demolishing their 1961 church. I wonder what that looked like.
20230620. The Beaches VII: Gothic Revival at St. Aidan’s in the Beach. Andrew Sharp at Darling & Pearson, 1909.
20230619. The Beaches VI: The Georgian Arms at 2327 Queen Street East. William Chesteain Charters, 1929. What would you call this architectural style?
20230618. Office elevator lobbies are relatively simple these days but use appealing finishes.
20230617. The Beaches V: Not sure how much rent is at the Stewart Avenue Apartments (2263 Queen Street East) but with the right carrier it has a great phone signal.
20230616. The Beaches IV: Baltic butterfly-roofed modernism in the Beaches by Estonian Viktor Tretjakewitsch, 1952. With a group of other immigrants, they may have been the first in Ontario to propose a co-operative model.
20230615. The Beaches III: Inside the Beach Mall. Formerly the Allen Beach Theatre (Hymes Feldman and Watson, 1919), a 1929 ad read “A Nice Place for Nice Folks to Go.” The theatre lasted 50 years and was renovated into a mall in 1970. The architectural style of the time is still evident today.
20230614. The Beaches II: The Fox Theatre (formerly Prince Edward Theatre and Apartments, Wilfred Shulman, 1913). The 2nd image shows the interior in 1947 (Archives of Ontario) and the 3rd image the intact marquis in the 1950s (https://localfilmculturestoronto.wordpress.com/).
20230613. Now that it’s almost summer, let’s go to The Beaches 1. The Stewart Manor apartment building (2269 Queen St E). The second image (Toronto Archives) shows the living room of a unit in 1927.
202300612. Less Church.
20230611. Mid-century modern mixed use.
20230610. The march of the condominiums.
20230609. Round Richmond Station Fenestration.
20230608. Oftentimes an architectural style is defined only by the front facade like this art deco storefront.
20230607. Four sides of facadism. In this case, the street-facing facade and half the east and west facades have been saved at the east building of the former Ontario Design Centre.
20230606. Poor visibility due to wildfire smoke was evident today looking across Humber Bay.
