Tag Archives: architecture
20160813. A new facade joins a heritage commercial strip on Yorkville’s Scollard Street.
20160811. The towering modernist forms of St. James Town at night.
Looking west from Parliament Street. Several buildings are named for Canadian cities – the white building with shapely balconies is the Toronto and in the distance the right tower is the Hamilton.
20160810. The tiny New World Laundry is dominated by the high-rises of St. James Town.
In the 1960s, during redevelopment of the area, the then owner refused to sell.
20160809. The modernist Bathville Towers (1966) of North York – reminiscent of a castle’s curtain wall and its keep.
20160807. Looking up at the Winnipeg (1968) of St. James Town where the buildings are named after Canadian cities.
20160806. Uniform living at the Block Condos.
20160805. The smallest cuboid on the block dwarfed by an angled Ernst & Young Tower.
20160804. Following a major renovation, Yorkville’s Hazelton Lanes shopping mall is now called Yorkville Village.
Top: after renovation. Below: before renovation.
20160803. Gutting an Art Deco heritage-designated destructor in the Stockyards District.
20160802 Looking west along Adelaide St, it is apparent that Toronto’s core is condominium central.
20160801. Rouge brise-soleil.
20160730. Port Hope’s Walton Street is acclaimed as the best preserved main street in Ontario.
20160728. Hemmed in by skyscrapers in downtown Toronto.
20160727. A top-down view of Toronto’s Commerce Court West Tower.
Note the green roof of the Toronto Dominion Centre banking pavilion to the right.
20160726. 1972 rough-hewn concrete modernism. 240 Duncan Mill Rd, Toronto.
In 2009, a concrete slab, the building’s brise-soleil or sun baffle, fell of the building with 100 people inside.
2060721. Take a moment to reflect on the beauty of what lies below before you jump.
20160718. An architectural reminiscence of what came before Toronto’s Tableau Condominiums.
See http://goo.gl/y3cuYA for this building’s previous incarnation.
20160716. Sneaking a peek at Toronto’s CN Tower through Mies van der Rohe’s TD Centre.
20160715. A bird’s eye view of tiny men painting Toronto’s TD Centre.
20160714. Face to face with Toronto’s postmodern Dynamic Funds Tower (Dundee Place).
20160713. Full-length aerial view of the Ernst & Young Tower and its embedded Concourse Building.
20160712. Toronto’s brilliant 1910 Lumsden Building sees its reflection for the first time.
20160711. The 1960, recently restored, modernist Hamilton City Hall looks like it was built yesterday.
20160707. Toronto’s octagonal, stainless-steel clad and still current Weston Centre tower.
Leslie Rebanks, 1975, International Style