
20180115. Traffic lights are bigger than they appear. Image taken April 2015 near Eglinton West Station during tunnel boring of The Crosstown LRT.

20180114. A polygonal cross-section of the PATH’s Skywalk.

20180113. Patterns and their projections from curtain to column.

20180112.The two ends of a roundhouse.

20180111. The endless Green P Parking garage.

20180110. Lying down in a high-rise atrium. Minimal Aesthetic 119.

The Monde Condominiums near completion at East Bayfront. Designed by Moshe Safdie and Quadrangle Architects Limited and recipient of 2012 BILD Award for Best High-Rise Building Design.

20180108. The non-existent Honest Ed Alley.

20180107. A sliver of sun sneaks through spans of this Gardiner Expressway box girder bridge.

20180106. Swansea Public School is an amalgamation of building additions including enlargements in 1928, 1953, 1985 and 2016.

20180105. Bipedalism through translucent glass flooring at Toronto’s Brookfield Place.

20180104. Following the seam between bridge spans in the underpass. CN Rail bridge, St. Clair Ave E, Scarborough Junction.

An underground parking exit ramp can be made elegent with the use of patterned precast concrete.

20180102. The brighter light at the end of the tunnel (and contrast between efficient, new light fixtures and shiny, old, inefficient ones in a Bay Station walkway).

20180101. Walking in the late winter afternoon shadow of the Harbour Plaza Residences.

20171231. Hope you have a Happy 2018! Thanks for looking!

20171230. Going down into the underground guided by red pipes and yellow curbs.

20171229. Two hands and the semi-rejuvenated International Style (of 26 Wellington).

20171228. Demolishing heritage architecture on College St to make way for the Design Haus condos.

20171227. Strong lines relate the modernist Burton Tower (McLennan Physical Laboratories) to the contemporary One Spadina (John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design) north facade.

20171226. The East United Condos will retain only the west and south facades of the 1906 Christie, Brown & Co. Stables building. See before and after images below.


20171225. One Spadina’s contemporary west entrance befits its 1875 neo-gothic half.

20171224.Going down to platform level at the Highway 407 Station on the Toronto-York Spadina Subway Extension (II). Merry Christmas!

20171223. A wide angle view across the Union Station train shed.
