20240730. Here are a couple more photos of the original vitrolite tiles showing at Osgoode station (with some personal touches). #TTC
Monthly Archives: July 2024
20240729. The original vitrolite tiles at Osgoode station are showing once again.
20240728. Porte Cochère XI. I have many more porte cochere images but this is the last one in this series. The substantial 311 Dixon Road.
20240727. Porte Cochère X. Heavy Duty 135 Fenelon Drive.
20240726. Porte Cochère IX. Space Age 65 Forest Manor Road. From the book “Remnants of Mid-Century Toronto” by Spacing and me.
Porte Cochère VIII. 150 Cosburn Ave is an example of Flintstone modernism.
20240724. Porte Cochère VII. Orange 20 Gamble Ave. 3rd building of 3, each with a different canopy.
20240723. Porte Cochère VI. Angular 72 Gamble Ave. 2nd building of 3, each with a different canopy.
20240722. Porte Cochère V. Undulating 100 Gamble Ave.
20240721. Porte Cochère IV. 130 Gowan Ave.
20240720. Porte Cochère III. 91 Cosburn Ave. This canopy has been removed and the building painted grey and white. Don’t paint brick!
20240719. Porte Cochère II. 75 Cosburn Ave.
20240718. Porte Cochère (or entrance canopy) I. Let’s take a look at some cool porte cochères. 50 Cosburn Ave.
20240717. I’ve noticed quite a few gas stations closing around the city. The first one is at Dufferin and Wilson and the second at Bathurst and Wilson. What other gas stations around the city have you noticed closing?
20240716. The new yellow Cherry Street South bridge in the port lands over the new mouth of the Don River.
20240715. The Cherry Street rail interlocking tower where signals would have been set manually. Built in 1931, it’s heritage, decommissioned and will be moved to accommodate track expansion.
20240714. Is This Ugly Architecture? VII. 1071 Woodbine Ave.
20240713. Is This Ugly Architecture? VI. What about this building that towers over Weston?
20240712. Awed by the National Holocaust Monument.
20240710. Is This Ugly Architecture? IV Tell me what you think! 170 Galloway Rd, Scarborough.
20240709. Taking a break from ugly architecture unless you think this brutalist brick building is ugly. I love it. Francis Beavis Manor at 369 Pape.
20240708. Is This Ugly Architecture III? Tell me what you think! 90 Adelaide Street East.
20240704. Bloor Dundas Square (1976) might be the strangest and ugliest building in Toronto.
20240703. There’s a lot of rebar in a bent (or support column).
20240702. Soaking in the sun rays at the Crossways.
