Category Archives: photos
20170408. The Gardiner Expressway’s York St. / Bay St. off-ramp closes for imminent demolition on April 17. Come on a walk tomorrow and check it out before it’s gone: http://goo.gl/EijOH8
20170407. A bug’s eye view of the entrance to the illuminated cast glass wedge at the Fort York Visitor Centre.
20170406. One of the colourful pedestrian tunnels under the York Beltline Trail at Dufferin St.
20170405. A model modernist triplet in Toronto’s Briar Hill.
20170404. A southbound view of the Brutalist Eglinton West subway station.
20170403. A interesting angle on a largely modernist triangular block.
20170402. The Loretto College School chapel exterior.
20170401. Concrete Corridor.
20170331. A monochrome match: 501 Adelaide Street W versus the Globe and Mail Centre.
20170330. A bird’s eye view of Skydome, I mean Rogers Centre, and its Renaissance Toronto Downtown Hotel.
20170329. New and old bents (support columns with horizontal caps) stand side by side at a Gardiner Expressway off-ramp.
20170328. One Spadina is just about ready for Faculty and Staff to move in.
20170327. The new anodized-aluminum-clad SQ Spadina Queen Condos is very close to completion.
20170326. The 1965 Bell Telephone building podium and aluminum-clad tower at 76 Adelaide Street West.
20170325. The conduits for power in a conduit for people – Ossington Station.
20170324. The anatomy of a 1970s light fixture.
20170323. The wall cladding outside Toronto’s biggest ballroom at the Beanfield Centre – formerly the Allstream Centre but forever the automotive building
20170322. Etobicoke’s Viceroy Building is a tiny, old modernist gem; sitting on slender columns, its bulk seems to defy gravity.
20170321. A latticework of balconies and concrete forms the facade of the modernist Tower Hill tower.
20170320. 1880s Victorian houses modeled into Yorkville’s York Square (1968), face development pressure to build a 30-storey condo on top.
20170319. Approaching Union Station from the west, all 12 platforms of the train shed are visible.
20170318. A setting sun shines on both the Picasso Condos and its reflection.
20170317. Where lamp post bears a resemblance to cladding. Minimal Aesthetic 109.
20170316. The full narrower west elevation of the modernist 1958 limestone-clad former Shell Oil building at 505 University Avenue including the 7 additional floors added 8 years later.
