Tag Archives: architecture
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.
20200119. Modernist zigzag concrete breeze block walls stylishly hide what is most likely a TTC power substation at Broadview Station.
20200118. Looking up from inside the 1968 Etobicoke Cenotaph at the Etobicoke Civic Centre.
20200116. Could the north face of the Crown Life Insurance Building (120 Bloor St W) have been an inspiration for the Daniels Faculty Of Architecture, Landscape And Design?
20200113. The L in L-Tower stands for lunar.
20200111. A large mural graces the south side ground floor wall of the Grid Condos.
20200110. The front precast concrete wall of the Toronto Hydro Electric Substation at Charles and Jarvis.
20200109. Stripping away the brutalist elements at 1200 Eglinton Ave E (near Wynford Drive), a classic building by Raymond Moriyama.
20200108. The construction site at 160 Front St is almost fully excavated underneath the rear face of the remaining heritage facade.
20200107. The Jean Lumb Public School and the Bishop Macdonell Catholic Elementary School opened yesterday in Toronto’s CityPlace neighbourhood though I cannot tell which school is shown in this photo.
20200106. The new GO Transit Bay Concourse at Union Station is starting to take shape and contrasts starkly from the old concourse also shown below.
20200105. A massive Moss Park apartment tower stands sentinel over Milan Street.
20200102. Above the stairwell at St. Clair Station.
20200101. Here’s to another year of photography. Happy 2020!
20191231. Raise the roof in 2020!
20191230. Matching mid-rises in the Church and Wellesley neighbourhood.
20191229. Behind the facades of 19 Duncan Street, a future mixed-use development, significant progress has been made on excavation.
20191227. The best construction hoarding in Toronto could be at Wellington and York, around the 1888 Toronto Club.
