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20250930. Shots from the closed National Rubber plant in the Junction.

Image September 30, 2025 Vik
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20250928. Emerald City and Nestle are getting a new neighbour – a 49 storey capsule-shaped market rental building.

Image September 28, 2025 Vik
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20250927. 1987 Curtain Wall Facade.

Image September 28, 2025 Vik
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20250926. Say goodbye to the 1929 Crystal Gardens (or Maitland Arms) at 110 Maitland Street which has been vacant for six years. Architect Herbert Charles Roberts.

Image September 26, 2025 Vik
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20250925. The Brutalist Bay – now only the birds visit.

Image September 25, 2025 Vik
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20250924. A pair of modernist office buildings with white striped concrete facades. 1100 and 1110 Sheppard Avenue East.

Image September 24, 2025 Vik
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20250923. Up and Through.

Image September 23, 2025 Vik
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20250922. Slab Tower Lines.

Image September 23, 2025 Vik
apartment towerChurch Wellesleylooking up
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20250921. Looking up on Charles.

Image September 22, 2025 Vik
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20250920. Is there an art deco echo here? Pairs of office buildings in business parks IV.

Image September 22, 2025 Vik
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20250919. Blue and green. Pairs of office buildings in business parks III. 

Image September 22, 2025 Vik
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20250918. As The Bay’s sun has set, here’s The Bay at sunset.

Image September 19, 2025 Vik
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20250917. Horizontals.. Office buildings in business parks II. 

Image September 18, 2025 Vik

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20250916. What a pair. Office buildings in business parks I.

Image September 17, 2025 Vik
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20250915. I love the blank brick end walls of townhouses. BTW, North York is home to Toronto’s best townhouse complexes.

Image September 17, 2025 Vik
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20250914. The Oaks of Avondale.

Image September 17, 2025 Vik

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20250913. A postmodern reflection of the sky.

Image September 17, 2025 Vik

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20250912. The unique and impressive Lambton Arena.

Image September 15, 2025 Vik

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20250911. Gas meter wall.

Image September 15, 2025 Vik

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20250910. Douglas Coupland’s colourful cones in Emerald City, Parkway Forest, North York, Toronto.

Image September 15, 2025 Vik

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20250909. Steel structural frame at Dundas and Jane.

Image September 13, 2025 Vik

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20250908. X marks the spot where a change has been proposed. This building will be retained for a two tower hotel between Camden and Richmond. 

Image September 13, 2025 Vik
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20250907. POMO IN Scarborough VI. The postmodern office complex.

Image September 13, 2025 Vik
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20250906. POMO in Scarborough V. When the tallest building in the area has a pyramid on top.

Image September 13, 2025 Vik
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20250905. We’ll return to POMO shortly. Here’s a mid century modern apartment building in Islington, Etobicoke, Toronto with a zigzag entrance canopy and fountain featuring a mermaid riding a merhorse fighting a spitting clam.

Image September 13, 2025 Vik
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