Tag Archives: architecture
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.
20170220. Cylindrical Modernism at Village Green by Architect John H. Daniels.
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.
