Tag Archives: architecture
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).
20170112. The Nathan Philips Square colonnade. ( col·on·nade \kä-lə-ˈnād\ – a series of columns set at regular intervals and usually supporting the base of a roof structure).
20170110. Facades of Victorian houses on Glen Road in North St. James Town have been restored from dereliction (http://goo.gl/2NZhAf) as part of a Lanterra Developments’ project.
20170109. The Humber Loop on TTC Route 501 Queen closed yesterday and will remain closed for much of 2017 to facilitate its renewal including new tracks, platforms, shelters, tunnel walkway and new roof for service building.
20170108. The Art Deco Concourse Building at 100 Adelaide St W is back.
20170105. Below the metal canopy of the Allen Lambert Galleria at Toronto’s Brookfield Place (Holiday Version).
20170102. Krystyna Sadowska’s 1967 sculpture suits the concrete plaza of the brutalist Centrepoint East apartment complex in Moss Park (Ryan & Lee, 1974).
20170101. City of Toronto Archives postmodern skylight. Minimal Aesthetic 103.
20161231. “A bargain centre like this happens once in a lifetime!!!” How true.
20161229. Inside the open podium under the Tableau Condominiums.
20161226. The Milburn building on Colborne Street – designed by the “master practitioner” of Richardsonian Romanesque architecture, E.J. Lennox (architect of Casa Loma and Old City Hall).
20161225. Only two walls of the heritage-designated 1927 Canadian Westinghouse Building remain standing as construction commences on the future two-building King Blue Condominium and Hotel complex.
20161224. Michael Snow’s Lightline art feature is finally active on the Trump International Hotel & Tower Toronto.
20161223. Looking up at the Trump International Hotel & Tower Toronto Lightline art feature that’s finally active but only after the developer defaulted on its debt and put the building up for sale – the name Trump will no longer disgrace the skyscraper.
20161221. Toronto’s beautiful Bank of Nova Scotia building banking hall features marble columns and counters, coffered decorated ceiling and a lovely clock.
20161219. The Art Deco facade’s fenestration compliments the contemporary condo curtain wall at Burano Condos.
20161217. Scotia Plaza Tower Grid.
20161215. The 1925 Gothic Revival McLaughlin Motor Car Showroom facade now forms part of the ground floor of the Burano Condominiums (Architects Alliance, ERA Architects, 2012).
