Tag Archives: architecture
20170328. One Spadina is just about ready for Faculty and Staff to move in.
20170327. The new anodized-aluminum-clad SQ Spadina Queen Condos is very close to completion.
20170322. Etobicoke’s Viceroy Building is a tiny, old modernist gem; sitting on slender columns, its bulk seems to defy gravity.
20170321. A latticework of balconies and concrete forms the facade of the modernist Tower Hill tower.
20170320. 1880s Victorian houses modeled into Yorkville’s York Square (1968), face development pressure to build a 30-storey condo on top.
20170318. A setting sun shines on both the Picasso Condos and its reflection.
20170317. Where lamp post bears a resemblance to cladding. Minimal Aesthetic 109.
20170316. The full narrower west elevation of the modernist 1958 limestone-clad former Shell Oil building at 505 University Avenue including the 7 additional floors added 8 years later.
20170315. This row of buildings at 738-744 Bathurst St (at Lennox St) will be conserved in the Westbank-developed Mirvish Village.
20170314. Eight section dual reflection atrium skylight.
20170313. The College Park atrium, with a railing-free staircase and a wall of wood hoarding, is getting a facelift.
20170312. A pyramid skylight of glass and mullions.
20170310. Looking up in a lesser known TTC Finch Station Entrance. Minimal Aesthetic 108.
20170309. Looking up at an Ontario Coat of Arms inscribed skylight inside the Queen’s Park neoclassical marble west atrium.
20170308. The towers of Waterpark City rise over pink June Callwood Park.
20170307. The 1892 Queen Anne Revival 2.5-storey fourplex Henry Mullen Buildings shall remain in the Westbank-developed Mirvish Village.
20170305. The handsome contemporary Art Deco style West Harbour City west podium.
20170304. Up, underneath the Princes’ Gates celebrating 60 years of Confederation. Chapman & Oxley, Beaux Arts, 1927.
20170302. The apexual architecture of Ten York, wedged between expressway structures, is making a point.
20170228. An undulating translucent 7 St. Thomas rises out of the 1887 Victorian row house facades below.
20160226. Go to Carmen’s Steak House just for the facade.
20170224. Take the contemporary addition to the historic wing at Humber College Lakeshore Campus.
20170222. Sunset-drenched slab block Modernism at Village Green by Architect John H. Daniels (2/2)
20170221. The 1935 art deco Allenby Theatre, once the Roxy and Toronto home to the The Rocky Horror Picture Show and now a Tim Hortons, designed by the master theatre architects Kaplan & Sprachman, and built for about $10,500.
