20161031. The remarkable Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) Brutalist facade.
20190415. The face on King Street East under the Adelaide St overpass.
20190414. Repurposed shipping containers as offices on construction sites is all the rage now.
20190413. Alleyway in the King Spadina Heritage Conservation District.
20190412. Terminal 1 at Toronto Pearson International Airport.
20190410. The big black dot at Bay Adelaide Centre East.
20190409. Brutalism at its best at York University’s stunning Scott Library.
20190408. People walk by St. Luke Lane and its window on four eras of architecture – old commercial, modern, postmodern and contemporary.
20190407. Demolition reveals glass covered long ago between Yonge St and O’Keefe Lane south of Gerrard. This is the site of the future 85-storey YSL Residences condo tower.
The condominium behind this lovely 1891 Gothic Revival building is a bad example of contextual architecture – a principle of design in which a structure is designed with reference to its surroundings.
20190403. The rounded board-formed concrete interior of the 1969 Brutalist Toronto District School Board West Education Office.
20190331. In the Entertainment District alley ways give way to high-rise condominiums.
Funky Shadows
20190328. St. Paul the Apostle Church, a Maltese-Canadian Parish in Malta Village.
20190323. Taking security seriously.
20190321. On Elm Street, the University of Toronto Faculty of Dentistry reflects the Hospital for Sick Children.
20190319. A six-storey community housing building awaits demolition in Regent Park’s Block 1, for Phase 3 of development.
20190318. A 46 storey office tower will replace this 1905 commercial building at 156 Front St W. The front facade of the old building will be dismantled and reconstructed.
20190317. A strip mall with variety II.
20190314. This is not post-apocalyptic Etobicoke but rather an old ramp from before the now mostly reconfigured Six Points Interchange.
20190312. The Lawrence Avenue Duplexes (at Yonge St) form one of the finest rows of houses in Toronto.
20190311. Hamilton East from atop the Niagara Escarpment at the Devil’s Punchbowl.
20190310. A Bay and Gable commercial strip on College Street.
20190309. Optical Illusion.
