Renaissance Revival, 1885.
20160915. The futuristic ranch-style church of the Latter Day Saints.
20160914. The townhome serrations of Linea on Bayview.
20160913. The Merchandise Building (1910) dominates Toronto’s Dalhousie Street.
20160912. Seeking out shadows in the night under the Gardiner Expressway.
20160911. This is where the Gardiner Expressway’s future Simcoe Street off-ramp will land.
20160910. Aqualina condo construction continues behind Sherbourne Common’s glowing zinc-clad pavilion.
20160909. Night transforms Lake Shore Blvd E into a sub-freeway speedway.
20160908. The unmistakable west facade of the almost ready Sun Life Financial Tower.
20160907. Ten York’s pointy podium takes shape on a wedge of land bordered by the Gardiner Expressway and one of its off-ramps.
20160906. Imminent demolition of the St. Lawrence Market North Building may unearth 200 years of history.
20160905. Renovations continue below at The Salvation Army Toronto Grace Health Centre.
20160904. Nail-polish scented steam escapes as a PVC liner is cured within a watermain requiring rehabilitation.
A PVC liner is inserted into a watermain between two manholes. Hot steam is then used to expand the liner to the width of pipe. The thermosetting resin in the liner is then cured by the steam and hardens. After cooling, the liner is now waterproof. This trenchless technology is used to stop leaks from imperfections or gaps in piping.
20160903. Mies’ black monoliths of modernism – the TD Centre.
20160902. Sheraton Centre’s brutalist triangular marquee mushroom.
20160831. Downside-up Deloitte stairway. Minimal Aesthetic 98.
20160830. Inside the Deloitte atrium of the new Bay Adelaide Centre East and its suspended staircase.
20160829. Taking down Tim Hortons and a licensed rooming house to make way for Grid Condos.
20160828. An aerial view on a Mies van der Rohe masterpiece – the TD Centre.
20160827. The bridge to Atlantis – a pavilion at Ontario Place.
20160826. Moss Park Modernism.
20160825. Playing in the skylight corridor at North York Centre.
Moriyama and Teshima Architects, 1989.
20160824. Make a brutalist building brutal with a skirt of contemporary cladding.
20160823. The Elgin building, now part of the Bay Adelaide Centre podium, sports a ghost wall extension.
Updated or built in 1910 by James Havill for Holt, Renfrew & Co., purveyors of fur at the time, this building originally occupied the northwest corner of Yonge and Adelaide as part of the 1850 Elgin building (See the image below for what the building looked like before being moved – Vik Pahwa, Jan 2013). The facade was moved north to Temperance Street for the Bay Adelaide Centre. The building was elongated to house mechanical equipment on its upper floors for the adjacent building. The extension, a modern addition cast from the original building facade, is known as a ghost wall.
20160822. The Toronto South Detention Centre maximum security building can hold 1650 male remanded offenders.
