Apparently no residents will be displaced during the redevelopment of the neighbourhood in the area west of Spadina Avenue, between Queen St and Dundas St. The project will take anywhere from 12 to 15 years to complete.
20140214. The great stairs inside the renovated 1952 Wymilwood Student Union building at University of Toronto.
20140131. Contextualism. The rear building addresses its context in terms of the materials, forms and details of the building in front of it.
20140212. Toronto’s out-of-use International Marine Passenger Terminal on Pier 52 in the port lands.
20140211. Enwave’s Pearl Street Station is one of three stations generating steam to heat 140 buildings in downtown Toronto.
20140210. Tower through trellis. Minimal Aesthetic #26.
20140209. Skating Ottawa’s 7.8 km Rideau Canal Skateway under the Bank Street bridge at Winterlude.
The Bank Street Canal Bridge was constructed in 1912 and restored in 1993.
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20140208. Looking northeast, Toronto’s skyline offers daring buildings.
20140207. Renaissance Center Station on the Detroit People Mover.
The Detroit People is a 2.9-mile (4.7 km) automated system operated on a single set of tracks encircling downtown.
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20140206. Graduate House at University of Toronto is an aggressively deconstructivist building.
“The building is clad in charcoal-coloured precast concrete with a perforated aluminum skin draped over the north and east facades. A skew in the south block generates positive agitation and ‘delaminates’ the facade into overlapping planes of texture.”
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vikpahwa/12356825524/
20130205. Today’s Toronto snowstorm at 130 metres.
20140204. The Robertson Building (215 Spadina Ave, Toronto) is home to the Centre for Social Innovation and where I hang out.
20140203. Bloor Collegiate Institute demonstrates proportionality. Minimal Aesthetic #25.
20140202. TTC’s new Dufferin Station west-side entrance in Toronto.
This design provides a larger space to wait indoors for your bus but the single set of sliding doors and the narrow staircase will act as bottlenecks during rush hour. What do you think of the design?