Tag Archives: architecture
20190509. 372 Richmond St W, a four-storey brick and beam building.
20190502. Go check out the Stackt Market, the modular shipping container market at Bathurst and Front.
20190501. The Arthur Erickson designed Eglinton West Station features a 70 metre hexagonal concrete waffle roof with numerous skylights supported by 8 large round columns.
20190430. The Arthur Erickson designed Eglinton West Station features a 70 metre hexagonal concrete waffle slab roof that appears to hover over the station.
20190429. The Hard Rock Cafe at Yonge Dundas Square is now yet another Shoppers Drug Mart.
20190428. The Crescent Town Bridge to Victoria Park Station.
20190423. Approaching Yorkdale Station platform level.
20190422. Behind the buildings of Adelaide Street West.
20190420. The bronzed weathervane-equipped exhaust vents on the 1926 Danforth Avenue Transformer Substation designed by A.E. Salisbury.
20161031. The remarkable Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) Brutalist facade.
20190410. The big black dot at Bay Adelaide Centre East.
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.
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.
20190312. The Lawrence Avenue Duplexes (at Yonge St) form one of the finest rows of houses in Toronto.
20190310. A Bay and Gable commercial strip on College Street.
20190307. The narrowest building of Toronto’s Waterlink at Pier 27 condos and its industry-separating wall.
