This project removes many of the at-grade street crossings with below grade rail corridors. Here the corridor is being lowered to pass under three roads.
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20140323. From 200 feet up, the verticality of Toronto’s growing South Core district is apparent.
20140322. The entire postmodern and very interesting Rogers AT&T Centre in Toronto.
20140321. Mainland access shaft to excavated tunnel leading to Toronto’s island airport and future tunnel schematic.
According to the Toronto Port Authority website, this is “set to become the world’s first underwater pedestrian tunnel connecting an airport to mainland.”
20140320. Great architecture outside Dupont subway station at night (Toronto).
20140319. Uranium pellets for nuclear fuel bundles are made here. 1025 Lansdowne Ave (north of Dupont St., Toronto).
GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy Canada, Inc. has two buildings on this site. I am unsure in which building the pellets are made.
20140318. The south elevation of the funky office building at 110 Eglinton Ave. W in Toronto.
20140317. Suncor’s Mississauga Lubricants Centre is visible from the Bathurst St. Slip (across from the island airport) in Toronto.
Suncor, who owns Petro-Canada Lubricants, makes over 350 lubricants, specialty fluids and greases.
20140316. The below-grade rail corridor at Strachan Avenue and the Liberty Village townhomes stretch east towards downtown.
The street-level crossing has been removed and replaced with a below-grade rail corridor and a Strachan Avenue overpass. Currently, only the north side passage is open. You can see the orange and white tarps covering the future overpass.
20140315. The 1960 modernist Deak International Building at 10 King E, Toronto in a matrix of windows.
20140314. Far below, the lonely little Toronto Harbour Commission building awaits development on its lot.
As mentioned at UrbanToronto.ca, the building and land is owned by the Toronto Port Authority and will most likely be developed by Oxford Properties.
20140313. Grayscale glass block wall. Minimal aesthetic #28.
20140312. The extreme brutalism of York University’s Curtis Lecture Halls.
Perhaps the rectangular concrete masses reveal the specific functional zones of the building – lecture halls. Only a small section on the other side has windows.
20140311. The derelict heritage-designated Art Deco Incinerator at 150 Symes in Toronto.
The building has been sold to an investor who has promised to retain the entire building instead of only a facade, like so many other buildings in Toronto.
20140310. A top-down view of the 50-storey Maple Leaf Square South Tower in Toronto.
20140309. Amesbury Park Library in Toronto (c.1967) – modernist and seemingly contemporary.
The surroundings probably looked exactly like this back in 1967.
20140308. Dead end pedestrian overpass. Yorkdale Mall, Toronto.
20140307. Rosedale subway station in Toronto is a fine example of modernist architecture (c.1954, Architect John B. Parkin).
20140306. The Brutalist Berkshire House in black and white (c.1974, 411 Duplex Ave, Toronto).
20140305. The Northern District Public Library and Stanley Knowles Housing Cooperative near Yonge and Eglinton in Toronto.
The library opened in 1975. The co-op was added on top and opened in 1984. Together they make an unattractive complex with a Brutalist base and a modernist tower. Renovations of the surrounding exterior area start this fall.
20140304. The curved glass roof at Toronto’s Yorkdale Subway Station (c.1978, Architect Arthur Erickson).
The station’s glass roof featured a light installation called “Arc en Ciel” by Michael Hayden that stopped working in the mid-1990s. This installation may be restored with LED lighting.
20140303. The TTC launched a trial today testing numbered subway lines. Great idea!
20140302. The demolition of the TTC Yorkdale commuter lot in Toronto has begun making way for more retail space and a new lot.
20140301. Four escalators and five floors at 10 Dundas East in Toronto.
20140228. The modernist Lord Lansdowne Public School (c.1961, Architect Peter Pennington) – main building, gymnasium wing and main entrance.
The folded plate roof unifies these three sections of the school.
