20240708. Is This Ugly Architecture III? Tell me what you think! 90 Adelaide Street East.
20240704. Bloor Dundas Square (1976) might be the strangest and ugliest building in Toronto.
20240703. There’s a lot of rebar in a bent (or support column).
20240702. Soaking in the sun rays at the Crossways.
20240701. Living in Symmetry IV.
20240630. Living in Symmetry III.
20240629. Living in Symmetry II.
20240628. Living in Symmetry I.
20240623. Temporary Exhibition GO Station bridge.
20240622. The way the IMMIX rental building handles Fire Hall #3 and its clock tower (1872) strikes me as overly busy with patterned balconies and discordant materials at ground level but I do like the quality of restoration by ERA Architects, the glass facade of the long gone hall and the way the clock face is against a more subtle background.
20240621. From fast food to slow decay on Dundas. Can you guess the franchise?
20240620. Dupont Station has a new storage room and new art all around it. James Sutherland, the artist behind the giant flower tilework at platform level from 1978 has now created this second art installation entitled “The Force that through the green fuse drives the flower” (2021).
20240619. The under construction, being demolished, new, and condemned in Regent Park. The newish building has siding that resembles boarded up windows.
20240618. During the Dundas (or Do) West Fest, I discovered Hank’s Liquor in a building one can consider ‘front yard infill.’
20240617. The dome-less byzantine St Anne’s Anglican Church (WF Howland, 1907). A woman at the site asked if I was a reporter and then insisted that it was an accidental fire despite three police cars blocking off access to the road in front.
20240606. CN Tower XVII. In Monochrome.
20240605. CN Tower XVI. What seems to be a wet tower with dry pixelated patches is really a wet tower with spot repairs done with a smooth finished concrete contrasting with the original texture.
20240604. Demolition of the second-last old (around 1947) mid-rise apartment building in Regent Park continues. The CN Tower series will return shortly.
20240601. CN Tower XIII.
20240513. Zigzag parkade.
20240509. A brick wall with brick fenestration now forever hidden.
20240506. After removing the paint at the old Palace Arms (second image), the masonry was found in very poor condition. So, instead of saving the facades, they will be replicated using salvaged materials where possible resulting in commemoration not conservation.
20240505. All that sky on the Danforth means a redevelopment is happening. Here comes Pape Station on the Ontario Line.
20240504. What were they thinking when they made this mixed-use monstrosity known as the Holly Square Apartments (1968) up at Yonge and Eglinton.
20240503. March of the Condominiums V.
