20150109. This pedestrian bridge leads to the impressive facade of the Value Park Garage from Pearson Airport’s Terminal Link Train Viscount Station.
20150108. An seemingly suspended set of screens shows flight arrival information at Pearson Airport’s Terminal 1 Arrivals deck.
20140107. Slats beneath ramps. Terminal 1, Toronto Pearson International Airport. Minimal Aesthetic 47.
20150106. Approach Toronto’s international airport on the new Union Pearson Express later this year.
20140105. Dirty vent covers and bright barriers in contrasting yellows at Lawrence West station. Minimal Aesthetic 46
20150104. A south view of Toronto’s Lawrence West subway station. Opened in 1978 in the median of Allen Road, it remains impressive.
Dunlop Farrow Aitken Architects.
For a north view of the station, go to http://vikpahwa.com/uncategorized/photo-20121027-lawrence-west-station-and-allen-road-from-one-bridge-south/
20140103. When tearing down tall structures, an ultra high-reach demolition boom is ideal for an excavator.
20150102. Toronto’s Yorkdale Shopping Centre expansion construction site is so massive that four cranes are required.
This year, the Yorkdale Shopping Centre is 50 years old.
You can see what this area looked like shortly after the demolition of the Yorkdale subway commuter parkade at https://www.flickr.com/photos/vikpahwa/12895379454/
20150101. With the new year upon us, it’s time for a little perspective. Happy 2015 and thanks for looking!
20141231. This grade-separated track replaces the railway junction after which Toronto’s Junction hood is named.
Now that trains no longer need to wait to cross the junction, GO Transit regional commuter trains as well as the soon to be implemented Union Station – Pearson International Airport Express train will run faster with more efficient scheduling.
20141230. Demolition of these landmark silos (c.1893) has commenced in Toronto’s Junction neighbourhood.
These silos have a long history. Once they were the Campbell Flour Mills and were most recently owned by St. Marys Cement. There is talk about the site being used for a “suburban style plaza with surface parking” probably not unlike the Stockyards Mall recently completed nearby.
20141229. The remaining Inn on the Park building (c.1971) at Eglinton and Leslie in Toronto stands in a half demolished state.
According to the Progreen Demolition website, this is one of the highest buildings (25 storeys) ever demolished in the GTA. The first Inn on the Park building, a modernist structure by architect Peter Dickinson was demolished in 2006.
20141228. The sky’s the limit at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.
20141227. 11:10pm at the top of the Manulife Centre at Bloor and Jarvis.
20141226. The world’s highest hydraulic lift lock resides in Peterborough, Ontario on the Trent-Severn Waterway.
The Peterborough Lift Lock lifts ships 19.8 metres (max 30.5 m long, max 7.3 m wide, max 99,000 kg). The 386 km waterway (with 45 locks and 39 swing bridges and 20 km of man-made channels), is a Canadian National Historic Site and takes 5-7 days to traverse. Construction begain in 1833 and by 1920 a ship could travel from Lake Ontario to Lake Huron. At the time it was built, it was the largest un-reinforced concrete structure on Earth.
20141225. The Milne Dam (latest build 1968) on the Rouge River is the seed from which Markham, Ontario sprang.
20141224. In a new subdivision in the future downtown Markham, “they are all made out of ticky tacky and they all look just the same.”
20141223. The Glanmore House (c.1883) in Belleville, Ontario is a fine example of Second Empire architecture and a National Historic Site.
20141222. Belleville, Ontario’s beautiful 1835 Billa Flint House, with its massive parapets and chimneys, awaits another restoration after being seriously vandalized.
20141221. Belleville’s (Ontario, Canada) beautiful late Victorian Gothic city hall (c.1873) and first heritage asset.
20141220. Sun rays and shadows are almost physical when fog and sunshine combine on Toronto’s waterfront.
20141219. Staring straight down the square stairwell.
20141218. At the new Life Sciences Building at Toronto’s York University, the building matches the ground.
20141217. Repairing the Burlington Bay Skyway heritage bridge (c.1958).
In 1985, a second bridge (behind) was added to double traffic capacity. This second bridge is unimpressive compared to the original and does not compliment it in anyway.
Could you imagine using the portable toilet near the top of the platform rigging on a cold windy day?