20200819. A bird’s eye view of the Lee-Chin Crystal (2007) at the Royal Ontario Museum.
20200818. The number of this modern concrete high-rise residential beast getting a face-lift on Spadina Ave is 666.
20200817. 500 Keele (Keele Centre) has changed from a CPR intermodal freight transport building built in 1969 to a business park housing small enterprises.
20200816. The Paneled Brutalism of the Toronto District School Board Education Centre as featured in my new book with Spacing. Get your copy today at https://spacingstore.ca/.
20200815. The door to Enwave’s Pearl Street steam plant is open among reflections from a neighbouring tower.
20200814. The Prince Edward Viaduct or (Bloor Viaduct) spans the Don River valley and the Lower Don River Trail (Edmund Burke, 1918).
20200813. Looking up at Enwave’s Pearl Street steam plant as it catches reflections from a neighbouring office tower.
20200812. The beautiful brutalist Masters Condominiums Building B at 296-300 Mill Road, Markland Wood, Etobicoke, Toronto (Kelton Architects & Planners, 1976).
20200811. On Elm Street, the University of Toronto Faculty of Dentistry reflects the Hospital for Sick Children.
20200810. Appreciating the Toronto Star building before it is incorporated into the new mega-development at One Yonge by Pinnacle International and Hariri Pontarini Architects.
20200809. The handsome curved south block of the Frost Building (Ontario Treasury Building) at Queens Park.
20200808. Applewood Place in Applewood, Mississauga, 26 floors of 1996 condominium.
20200807. A breeze block section of wall helps ventilate a one storey parking Garage at the very well maintained modern mid-rise at 1525 Bloor St in east Mississauga.
20200806. Burnhamthorpe, Etobicoke has not changed much in the last 60 years. With a high density of modern mid-rises, one can find funky canopies like this flaring upturned gem.
20200805. The High Point Mall Medical Centre in Mississauga. Not sure whether it’s the high point of medical care but look at the coarse aggregate concrete!
20200804. Taking a stroll past Scaffolding Tower, also known as Mowat Block, while the Ontario Government’s MacDonald Block Complex undergoes a complete reconstruction.
20200803. Mowat Block could be known as Scaffolding Tower while the Government of Ontario’s MacDonald Block Complex undergoes a complete reconstruction.
20200802. The utility pole between two mid-century modern mid-rises. Jan Kiepura Building 1 and 2 at 777-787 Jane Street.
20200801. A closer look at the top of Scotia Plaza and its two window cleaning cranes.
20200731. No longer can you go to Queen and Augusta for a finger lickin’ good run for the border.
20200730. The first CIBC Square building is looking very nice with its diamond-shaped glazing reflecting in different directions.
20200729. The sun-streaked international style.
20200728. This sanctuary (presumably) and the rest of the modern 1961 Knox Presbyterian Church Fellowship Centre will most likely be demolished, sold and redeveloped.
20200727. The little zig zag canopy on the big industrial building.
