Photo 20130908. Lamp on brick column (Market Square, Toronto). Minimal aesthetic #14.
Photo 20130907. The HNR Building (c.1913, 21 Dundas Sq.) has a new and interesting fire escape.
The HNR Building will be restored while a new 39-story mixed-use tower is developed behind it. At one time, the fire escape ended on the roof of a now demolished building whose imprint remains. The lower half of the fire escape was recently added on the building’s east face. Sadly, the demolished building was heritage-designated.
Photo 20130906. Digging to second platform level at Union Station.
Photo 20130905. The protruding box design of the Telus House tower.
Photo 20130904. A Maple Leaf Square reflection.
Photo 20130903. Brutalism at the Manulife Centre (Bloor and Bay).
Photo 20130902. A postmodern nod to the Flatiron Building, 25 the Esplanade.
Photo 20130901. Symmetry in form and contrast in light in the Bay Street underpass.
Photo 20130831. The Constitution Building in Ottawa. A grand name for a not-so-grand building.
Photo 20130830. The postmodern, brutalist-inspired brick buildings of Public Works and Government Services Canada, Ottawa.
Photo 20130829. One prong of Cambridge Place at 30 Denton.
Photo 20130828. An assortment of windows (near Kennedy Stn). Minimal Aesthetic #13.
Photo 20130827. Colour and cracks in a concrete underpass (St. Clair and Warden).
Photo 20130826. A section of the Toronto City Hall podium roof at dusk.
Photo 20130825. NXT2 Condominium’s east tower (Queensway / Kingsway).
Photo 20130824. Small plant in top left window. Minimal Aesthetic #12.
Photo 20130823. The Dominion Public Building, 1 Front Street West (c.1935, Beaux Arts neoclassical architectural style, Fuller and Craig Architects).
Photo 20130822. Construction dominates the west-facing skyline over a locomotive at the Toronto Railway Museum.
Buildings under construction include the new Delta Hotel, Bremner Tower and the two Ice Condos.
Photo 20130821. The TTC train track & transmission tower trail (on Sunday’s walk).
Photo 20130820. The Pier 27 Condominiums at Yonge and Queen’s Quay are going up fast!
Photo 20130819. Danger at Warden Substation (supplies traction power for Bloor-Danforth subway line).
Photo 20130818. The round 40 Firvalley Ct., Scarborough – spruced up after an ignominious past as Toronto Community Housing’s worst building.
Photo 20130817. Blue skies above the Humber Bay Bridge.
Photo 20130816. Looking up, way up at the stainless steel clad Commerce Court West tower (c.1972, International Style, Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Architects).
