photos 20241231. Stay tuned for another year of photos of Toronto architecture, infrastructure and cityscapes. 2025 will feature detailed coverage of Ontario Line construction and more Toronto modernism. Happy 2025! Image December 31, 2024 Vik
photos 20241230. Development signs change over time. They fade and some go from 40 to 105 storeys. The signs sit on the coloured large aggregate concrete of the doomed Toronto Star building. Image December 31, 2024 Vik
photos 20241229. Another concrete tower bites the dust. A demolition permit for the Toronto Star building was accepted by the city on Dec 4th. Image December 31, 2024 Vik
photos 20241228. A demolition permit for the Toronto Star building was accepted by the city on Dec 4th. Oh and they are hastily making a park on the former LCBO lands with the widest pathways around. Image December 31, 2024 Vik
photos 20241227. It’s unusual to see an empty plot of land this big downtown (just north of Queen and Spadina). Guess what will be built here? Image December 31, 2024 Vik
photos 20241226. The last of the miniature chateau-styled Joy Gas Stations in Sunnyside Park (1937). Image December 31, 2024 Vik
photos 20241225. The Whitfield at Front and Sherbourne. The red on the second floor is reminiscent of the gas station that was on that corner. Image December 31, 2024 Vik
photos 20241222. 38-40 Dundas Street East is gone. From the Powell Chemical Company to the Kahn Optical Company to Teela Publications to Hakim Optical to nothing but a memory. Image December 31, 2024 Vik