Category Archives: photos
20140515. Storage bins are all that remain of the Electric Elevator – Buffalo’s first elevator powered by electricity (c.1897).
20140514. A gold-infused personal reflection marks the third anniversary of this photography blog. Thanks for looking!
20140513. The sun has set on these houses at Redpath and Roehampton. Yet another condo will rise near Yonge and Eglinton in Toronto.
20140512. The Toronto Transit Commission’s new Toronto Rocket subway car vs. the old T-1 series car.
20140511. Buffalo’s City Court Building is the epitome of Brutalism (c.1974)
“The windowless walls which present an impentratable facade to Niagara Square, were designed to protect the courtrooms and judges’ chambers from outside distractions, as well as to accomodate sculpture and define space.” From “Buffalo Architecture: A Guide.”
20140510. Night light in black vestibule. Minimal aesthetic #32.
20140509. Buffalo’s awesome Ohio Street Lift Bridge has two towers housing the cables and counter-weights that lift the bridge.
20140509. Buffalo’s awesome Ohio Street Lift Bridge has two towers housing the cables and counter-weights that lift the bridge.
20140508. Sheds on sale sit like a street of suburban houses.
20140507. On weekdays, this vast space under the I-190 at Main St in Buffalo is used as a parking lot.
In Toronto such spaces exist under the Gardiner Expressway west of Spadina Avenue. Some areas are used informally as parking lots while others sit vacant.
With new developments rising next to the Gardiner Expressway, many of these spaces could be reprogrammed whereas in Buffalo, with so much office space unused, new uses for these dead spaces are unlikely.
With the steel beams running into the distance, I find this space intriguing.
20140506. My first on-street view of the TTC’s new Toronto Flexity Outlook streetcar (exiting Bathurst Stn).
20140505. Under the I-190 in Buffalo – reminiscent of being under the Gardiner Expressway in Toronto.
This is the third image in a series looking under elevated expressways in Buffalo.
20140504. Looking southeast along the Buffalo Skyway in a city that has fully embraced its elevated expressways.
20140503. The clean curved lines of the Milton Post Office.
20140502. A side view of the rusty, abandoned pedestrian overpass in Thornhill.
20140501. A rusty, abandoned pedestrian overpass in Thornhill.
20140430. The depth of rust on a forgotten overpass.
20140429. Rusty railing, lamp post and railing. Minimal Aesthetic #31.
20140428. The glass-covered interior court of the Ellicott Square Building – “one of Buffalo’s most ornamental public spaces.”
I was excited to get inside here for a reason other than the grandeur of this place named after the founder of Buffalo. There was a Charlie the Butcher outlet serving Beef on Weck (to the right and mostly out of frame) which I was told was amazing. Sadly, I completely forgot about the sandwich after photographing the court.
20140427. There is no darkness at night in the barren back alleys of the townhouses on Sudbury St, Toronto.
20140426. The Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General’s Brutalist Milton Courthouse.
20140425. The Buffalo Skyway off-ramp to I-190 reminds me of Toronto’s Gardiner Expressway off-ramp at Bay Street.
Toronto’s off-ramp (soon to be demolished) features a park in the middle whereas Buffalo’s off-ramp features a parking lot. Buffalo is reminiscent of a 1970s Toronto with the large number of parking lots downtown.
20140424. York Region Transit has great bus shelters with accessible heated enclosures, real-time arrival info and Presto devices on dedicated busways.
20140423. The 40-floor One Seneca Place in Buffalo is almost empty and facing foreclosure (c.1972).
I have never encountered a building only 40 years old and empty. Do you know of any others?
20140422. The postmodern and pretty mundane Markham Civic Centre (c.1990, Architect Arthur Erickson).
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