20140917. Architect Viljo Revell’s concrete saucer at Toronto City Hall.
20140916. A section of south elevation of Toronto’s Aga Khan Museum of Islamic Art.
20140915. Behind Toronto’s new Aga Khan Museum of Islamic Art – opening this Friday.
20140914. Windows on the world at the Toronto TTC Castle Frank subway station bus platform.
20140913. Three patterned planes converge at a pair of pipes. Minimal Aesthetic 42.
20140912. Toronto’s very own chunnel can be found along Black Creek.
20140911. Underneath the Gardiner Expressway grime, Toronto.
20140910. The Key Tower in downtown Cleveland. At 947 feet, it is the tallest building in the state of Ohio.
20140909. White-capped revolving door in the “Ontario Place architectural style.” Brookfield Place, Toronto.
20140908. Looking south over the Cuyahoga River from below the arches on the 32nd floor of Cleveland’s Terminal Tower.
20140907. Tubular stainless steel revolving door. PWC Tower, 18 York St, Toronto.
20140906. The Cleveland Masonic Temple and Performing Arts Centre.
Built 1921, Architects Hubbell and Benes, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
20140905. The Ontario Government is closing its LCBO head office, warehouse and store downtown and selling the 11 acres of land.
Prospective buyers are expected to work with a future heritage designation for the office building on the left and to provide the LCBO with a new head office and retail store downtown.
20140904. The Miller Family Pavilion front plaza fountain, Cleveland Clinic main campus.
Peter Walker, Landscape Architect. Walker is the landscape designer of the National 9/11 memorial.
20140903. Toronto’s elevated Gardiner Expressway is stark yet visually appealing.
This is the eastbound Jarvis St off-ramp looking west.
20140902. The new Delta Hotel glistens and reflects a familiar structure in Toronto’s growing South Core.
Construction is almost complete in this first hotel-only tower (45 storey) constructed in Toronto in the last 20 years. Page+Steele / IBI Group Architects.
20140901. The Crile Building at the Cleveland Clinic medical center’s main campus.
Purpose: Outpatient care. Facade: banded granite. Architect: Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects. Built: 1984.
20140831. The stony eastern terminus of the Gardiner Expressway in Toronto.
20140830. Smokestack versus wall. Minimal Aesthetic 41.
20140829. The post-modern, strangely intriguing McMurtry-Scott Building, home of the Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General.
20140828. Toronto’s new streetcar at night saying “510 Spadina” on Spadina before the big day.
20140827. The massive columns of Convocation Hall (c.1907) at the University of Toronto.
Architects Pearson and Darling, Classical Revival architectural style.
20140826. Pointy-ended, vertically-suspended stairwell ductwork. Louis Stokes Wing, Cleveland Public Library main branch.
20140825. The “béton brut” entrance to the Bahen Centre, University of Toronto St. George campus. Minimal Aesthetic 40.
