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20240423. The Duplate Canada Building (right, Allward & Gouinlock, 1957) and the Rolex building (left Allward & Gouinlock, 1951) have an interesting history and will be featured in my upcoming tour “Modern Scenes on St. Clair II” with Heritage Toronto.

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20240422. The Daily Food Mart at 8 Pailton is an interesting building with a front facade following the road and a built-in wall. It will be replaced by a parkette north of a new condo to be built at 214 Merton.

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20240421. The moving heritage bank building wall.

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20240420. The modernist Moss Park Armoury (Page & Steele Architects, 1966), has lost some of its modernism. Take a look at the roofline in both images (taken 2024 and 2020).

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20240419. Campbell Block at Dundas and Keele. James Augustus Ellis, 1888.

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20240417. The doorway beckons late at night.

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20240416. University of Toronto St. George Campus Exam Centre, formerly Toronto Board of Education Supply Building. CE Cyril Dyson, 1931.

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20240415. Left – Langston House, 771-773 Yonge St, 1883. Right – Albert Britnell Book Shop, 765 Yonge St, RB McGiffen, 1928. Soon to be – Adagio. Do people actually reference the condo they live in? “Oh, I live at ‘Adagio'”.

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20240414. The modern parking spot.

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20240413. Carlyle Block (1893), 234-242 Queen Street East, Moss Park.

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20240412. The Maxwell Meighen Centre is a multi-care facility offering various programs and services for those experiencing homelessness in downtown Toronto.

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20240411. We can finally start to see what lies beneath the ugly yellow metal cladding at 60 Queen St, a 1901 red brick building with mansard roof and corner turret.

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20240410. I’m not sure I get the pinkish part of this new condominium tower.

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20240407. Why bother with west facing windows when you live on Highway 27 (across from the last leg of the Finch LRT).

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20240405. Our Lady of the Airways was built in 1971 for $177,550.00.

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20240305. Porte-cochère II.

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20240227. Stripping an ESSO / Circle K before demolition at King and Strachan. #toronto #architecture #redevelopment

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20240225. 2 Queen Street West – the 1896 Philip Jamieson Building – is looking a lot nicer than when it was a Coast Mountain Sports store with most of the building hidden behind bland grey cladding.

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20240220. Retaining a pair of facades for a 548 condo unit building. Uptown near Yonge and Eglinton.

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20240215. The braced facade of the old Capitol Theatre commercial block.

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20240213. The 1969 Parkwood Towers on Redpath near Eglinton sits empty awaiting demolition and redevelopment.

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20240211. Change is afoot in the TTC. Here we have Rosedale station with a revealed ceiling and new entrance structure tiling at Summerhill Station.

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20240209. Tracking the tile replacement project at Queen’s Park station in 4 images. #ttc #toronto #transit #torontotransit #infrastructure #subway

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20240208. 1. A sheltered walkway from the Humber College Finch LRT station (white box) to the bus terminal at Humber College North Campus. 2. A typical Finch LRT station is black.

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20240202. Modernist stairs versus brutalist stairs. Can you guess the wheres of these two sets of stairs?

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