Tag Archives: architecture
20170217. Excavators and stained glass windows, together for a short time during the last days of the Woodgreen Church.
20170216. Dismantling a government building on a government block.
20170215. The unique fusing of contemporary and modernist highrise architecture at 66 Isabella.
20170214. Welcome to the Humber College Lakeshore Campus Welcome Centre.
20170213. Podium glass distortions at the Casa Condos at 33 Charles Street East.
20170212. The brutalist blockiness of 55 St. Clair West (Esso Place, WZMH Architects, 1981).
20170211. This charming unkempt building at College and Huron faces demolition then inaccurate facadism as part of the Design Haus condos by developer Shiu Pong and Kirkor Architects.
20170210. The cute rowhouses of Belmont Street, renovated in 1962 by Joan Burt, the only woman in Ontario at the time with an architectural practice actively working as an architect.
20170208. The NOW Magazine building is being demolished now to make way for the 29 storey Fleur Condos (Menkes Developments / Architects Alliance).
20170207. The vintage modernist Oriole Arms apartments in Toronto’s Deer Park neighbourhood.
20170206. Reflecting on the new PATH connection to the new Sun Life Financial Tower.
20170205. The College condominiums, aptly named for the street they are on, sport multi-coloured glass balconies on the west side catching the afternoon sun.
20170201. With the fence up, the Victory Cafe closed, and the 1892 Victorian house retained, the transition of Markham Village has begun.
20170131. TTC’s Kipling Station Bus Platform from the tracks.
20170129. Looking up at the octagonally-framed circular dome at Gouinlock’s Government Building (Beaux Arts in Baroque Classical style, 1912).
20170127. A TTC Flexity Outlook LRV zooms past the Radisson Admiral Hotel on Queens Quay.
20170126. Fifteen fenestra facade at the doomed LCBO warehouse. Minimal Aesthetic 105.
20170125. Looking up at the First Canadian Place tower from behind bars.
20170122. The triangular King Highline residential and retail complex between King West and the rail corridor is rising fast.
20170120. This Parkdale double duplex is a a modern day tribute to Toronto’s distinctive Bay And Gable architecture.
20170118. The Eglinton Grand, a national historic site and elaborate and luxurious example of Art Deco architecture (1936), is back as an elegant event space. #Toronto, #architecture, Canada’s Historic Places
20170117. Currently, the Deer Park United Church (1912, Gothic Revival) is open to everyone.
20170116. The 1912 Gothic Revival Deer Park United Church awaits its future condo development with interior exposed (image 2).
20170115. Deer Park United Church is transcept-free. The apse and attached two-floor buildings that obscured the apse have been removed but the remainder will adjoin a new condominium development (image 1).
