In the 1960s, during redevelopment of the area, the then owner refused to sell.
Category Archives: photos
20160809. The modernist Bathville Towers (1966) of North York – reminiscent of a castle’s curtain wall and its keep.
20160808. U.S. Steel sits quietly in Hamilton Harbour.
20160807. Looking up at the Winnipeg (1968) of St. James Town where the buildings are named after Canadian cities.
20160806. Uniform living at the Block Condos.
20160805. The smallest cuboid on the block dwarfed by an angled Ernst & Young Tower.
20160804. Following a major renovation, Yorkville’s Hazelton Lanes shopping mall is now called Yorkville Village.
Top: after renovation. Below: before renovation.
20160803. Gutting an Art Deco heritage-designated destructor in the Stockyards District.
20160802 Looking west along Adelaide St, it is apparent that Toronto’s core is condominium central.
20160801. Rouge brise-soleil.
20160731. Ontario’s drought has reduced Hastings County’s Moira River to its lowest level in decades.
20160730. Port Hope’s Walton Street is acclaimed as the best preserved main street in Ontario.
20160729. Under Toronto’s pristine elevated Gardiner Expressway East.
20160728. Hemmed in by skyscrapers in downtown Toronto.
20160727. A top-down view of Toronto’s Commerce Court West Tower.
Note the green roof of the Toronto Dominion Centre banking pavilion to the right.
20160726. 1972 rough-hewn concrete modernism. 240 Duncan Mill Rd, Toronto.
In 2009, a concrete slab, the building’s brise-soleil or sun baffle, fell of the building with 100 people inside.
20160725. Art in the Absence of Advertising.
20160724. The silos of St. Marys Cement at dusk.
Bowmanville, Ontario.
20160722. The 1938 591m Bill Thorpe Walking Bridge in Fredericton, New Brunswick.
2060721. Take a moment to reflect on the beauty of what lies below before you jump.
20160719. Toronto’s L-Tower looks as impressive from the sky as from the ground.
20160718. An architectural reminiscence of what came before Toronto’s Tableau Condominiums.
See http://goo.gl/y3cuYA for this building’s previous incarnation.
20160717. An aerial view of the densest, largest high-rise community in Canada – St. James Town, Toronto.
20160716. Sneaking a peek at Toronto’s CN Tower through Mies van der Rohe’s TD Centre.
20160715. A bird’s eye view of tiny men painting Toronto’s TD Centre.
