Tag Archives: architecture
20200217. A dying mid-century strip mall at Eglinton and Kennedy.
20200216. The postmodern 15 Scadding Court with its bulky Brutalist massing.
20200215. When a building is ghosted (painted white), you know it is coming down. This is 328 Dupont, where the ANX condos will be built.
20200214. Seeya Galleria Mall, hello Galleria on the Park mega-development.
20200212. The rear of the Toronto Reference Library.
20200211. Entering the Radisson Hotel Admiral Toronto-Harbourfront parking garage.
20200210. Living in Brutalism at Moss Park’s 1974 Centrepoint East high-rise complex.
20200209. The new pedestrian bridge linking the future CIBC Square (and GO Transit Bus Station) to the PATH via the Scotiabank Arena is looking pretty good. Of course there are windows on the south side.
20200207. Finding beauty at Bathurst Station is as difficult as finding rational people in today’s political climate. Here is an attempt.
20200206. Mirvish Village is looking a bit different these days.
20200205. Look for the Golden Arches (1960 slogan)! You deserve a break today (1971 slogan). We do it all for you (1975 slogan) but not at King and Dufferin where the McDonald’s is being demolished for – you guessed it – more condos!
20200203. Featuring Tonight. Bumping & Grinding and Vice Versa! This is the best place to watch a Leaf game! Filmores Hotel is closing! Bought by Menkes for $31.5 million, it will most likely be demolished.
20200202. Toronto City Council has endorsed replacing the brutalist St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts with a new state-of-the-art cultural and civic hub.
20200201. The McDonald Block complex, the administrative hub of the Ontario government, is undergoing a major reconstruction that will replace all core building systems.
20200131. Satellite Dish Place, Regent Park.
20200129. The greenhouse-inspired structure above the patio outside New Fort Hall at Hotel X. The hall features glass floors both in and out with foundations of former barracks of nearby Fort York below.
20200128. Backlit patterned glass wall. Can anyone guess the building?
20200127. An LCBO right out of what I presume is the 1970s. 1090 The Queensway.
20200126. The mechanical penthouse at 48 Yonge Street (at Wellington) reveals that this was a modernist building reclad in marble and mirrored glass.
20200124. The slick 1971 Forest Hills residential high-rise of Westminster, North York.
20200123. Modernist Congregation B’Nai Torah.
20200122. Thales Canada (formerly IBM) at 105 Moatfield Drive is a great example of a Brutalist office tower (Crang & Boake, 1982).
20200121. Goodbye to University of Toronto’s Best (left, 1954) and Banting (right, 1930) Institutes named for the two men that discovered and commercialized insulin in 1922. They will be replaced by the Schwartz Reisman Innovation Centre.
20200120. At Front and Wellington sits a postmodern condo built to anticipate another building with only an insignificant building in front – the perfect development site yet it has no application.
