Tag Archives: architecture
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.
20191226. Modern lines in a Mimico industrial park.
20191225. Taking advantage of facadism to sneak a peek at the Shangri-La Hotel.
20191224. Birth of Light by @jacquiecomrie at 291 Lake Shore Boulevard East.
20191220. The anatomy of a fire exit stairwell.
20191219. Randomly lit windows set the Couture Condominium (Bloor/Jarvis) apart from neighbouring high-rises on a foggy night.
20191218. The partial 1870 Andrew McFarren Building at 237 Queen St E. once extended along Queen St to Sherbourne St to the right but was truncated for a bank branch that no longer exists.
20191217. 488 University Avenue, formerly 38-storeys shorter and Brutalist, towers over Chinatown at Spadina and Dundas.
20191216. Although the days of old Alexandra Park’s brutalist brick townhomes are numbered, they continue to intrigue with unexpected symmetry.
