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20250829. Crane at night. Pape Station.

Image August 29, 2025 Vik
Ontario Linepape station
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20250828. An early postmodern education.

Image August 29, 2025 Vik

1975islington junior middle schoolpostmoderntdsb
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20250827. A brand new tower of power.

Image August 28, 2025 Vik
Flemingdon Parknewtransmission tower
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20250826. Concrete, brick and some tile from probably the only intersection in Toronto with two brutalist schools.

Image August 27, 2025 Vik
brutalistFlemingdon Parkschool
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20250825. A funeral home with a stunning rough stone facade bringing together a more classical building with an excellent modernist addition. Just look at those veritcal stained glass windows to the right!

Image August 26, 2025 Vik
funeral homeIslingtonmodernist
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20240824. Exit 7H.

Image August 24, 2025 Vik
brutalistconcreteFlemingdon Parkschool
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20250823. White and Yellow.

Image August 24, 2025 Vik
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20250822. The new Charles West.

Image August 23, 2025 Vik
manulife centreparkade entranceresidencerevitalization
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20250821. Postmodern paint job.

Image August 23, 2025 Vik
east yorkhigh rise
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20250820. The towers of Crescent Town, East York.

Image August 23, 2025 Vik
Crescent Towneast york
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20250819. A photo of the old Kodak factory under the overpass on the Eglinton Crosstown before Mount Dennis Station.

Image August 23, 2025 Vik

black creekEglinton CrosstownLine 5overpasspublic art
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20250818. What a facade. 

Image August 18, 2025 Vik
Mink Milerolexstorefront
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20250817. Price + Plus. Wholesale Cash & Carry. Open To The Public.

Image August 18, 2025 Vik

industrialjunctionPrice Plus
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20250816. A former CCM and Lozier bicycle factory building on Weston Road.

Image August 17, 2025 Vik

CCMindustrial heritageLozieryork toronto
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20250815. Ontario Line constuction apparatus at Queen and Yonge

Image August 17, 2025 Vik
Ontario LineQueen and Yonge
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20250814. Industrial Buff Brick Beauty.

Image August 17, 2025 Vik
#industrial heritageroncesvalles
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20250813. Yet another tent, fully clad, at Queen and Yonge as work on the Ontario Line continues beneath us.

Image August 13, 2025 Vik
constructionmetrolinxOntario LineQueen and Yongequeen station
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20250812. Work continues at night at Queen and University under a tent frame with walls being added strip by strip.

Image August 13, 2025 Vik

Ontario Lineosgoodequeen and university
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20250811. Yonge Eglinton Centre Tower A vs Tower B.

Image August 12, 2025 Vik
architectureconcreteinternational stylemodernmodernisttoronto
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20250810. Hanging out on YZD 15/33. This former Downsview Airport runway gets its name from the magnetic headings of its only remaining runway – 150 or 330 degrees.

Image August 10, 2025 Vik
downsview airportrunwayYZD
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20250809. A sliver of clear sky beyond the clouds at Humber Bay.

Image August 10, 2025 Vik
Humber Bay
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20250808. A mid-century modern pedestrian bridge and bus stop combo (and one of my favourite overpasses). The location is cleverly labeled. Can you see where?

Image August 9, 2025 Vik
bus stopmid-century modernmodernistpedestrian bridge
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20250807. The Metis Canada sits opposite the salt mounds on a serene shipping channel. A notch was cut into her stern to accommodate a tug boat. Metis was launched in 1956, lengthened in 1959, retired in Kingston in 1983, towed to Toronto in 1989 and rebuilt into a barge to service the Toronto Dry Dock.

Image August 7, 2025 Vik
bargemetisport landsshipping channel
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20250806. The legacy of power generation on the shipping channel. The Hearn Generating Station (right) operated from 1951 to 1983. It’s transmission towers still stand today.

Image August 7, 2025 Vik

hearnport landsshipping channeltransmission towers
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20250805. The serenity of the shipping channel in the port lands. Leslie Lookout Park is way off in the distance. 

Image August 7, 2025 Vik
hearnport landsshipping channel

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