20160713. Full-length aerial view of the Ernst & Young Tower and its embedded Concourse Building.
20160712. Toronto’s brilliant 1910 Lumsden Building sees its reflection for the first time.
20160711. The 1960, recently restored, modernist Hamilton City Hall looks like it was built yesterday.
20160710. Toronto’s late modern St. Andrew’s United Church sits hidden near Bloor and Church.
20160709. Incandescent versus Fluorescent in the battle of light fixtures.
20160707. Toronto’s octagonal, stainless-steel clad and still current Weston Centre tower.
Leslie Rebanks, 1975, International Style
20160706. The complex cubic massing of the Shangri-La Hotel podium’s south side.
20160705. John B. Parkin’s modernist Celestica (formerly IBM) Offices (1965) face demolition as the Crosstown comes to Don Mills and Eglinton.
20160704. The Cathedral of Learning and the Heinz Memorial Chapel, aligned companions at the University of Pittsburgh.
20160703. John B. Parkin’s forever contemporary Ortho Pharmaceutical Building (1955).
20160701. Church of the Modernist.
20160630. Toronto’s modernist, unprotected Celestica (formerly IBM) Offices (1965) face redevelopment as The Crosstown comes to Don Mills and Eglinton.
20160629. Aerial of the award-winning Aquatic Centre in Regent Park.
20160628. Commerce Court North Vestibule Ceiling.
20160627. The beautifully designed TR2 Equinix Data Centre on Toronto’s Parliament St has porcelain panels reminiscent of punch cards.
20160626. The twin towers of the Edge on Triangle Park Condominiums.
20160625. Follow the seam into Pittsburgh’s Point State Park..
20160624. The Picasso on Richmond’s blank western canvas.
20160623. Post Brexit Wall. Minimal Aesthetic 96.
The wall represents a new barrier in Europe and the inversion the reaction of the markets to this vote to exit.
20160622. An aerial view of Toronto Union Station’s historic exposed train shed steel structure.
Progress on the train shed has stalled as the future electrification of Go Transit trains will require either modifying the overhead wiring system to fit under the shed, lowering the floor or raising the roof with the latter being the worst case scenario as it involves considerable cost and harming the historic steel structure.
20160621. The abstract yet patent facade of the Thompson Residences. Minimal Aesthetic 95.
20160620. The boiler house (building 38) at Toronto’s old Unilever factory, a site soon to be transformed by First Gulf.
20160619. Before: A 1930 Newsome & Gilbert Limited class 1 brick and beam printing plant on King St West. Now: A partially demolished building making way for the future King Portland Centre.
20160618. The massive block-long building of the Toronto Carpet Manufacturing Company (1899. addition 1925).
