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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
20160706. The complex cubic massing of the Shangri-La Hotel podium’s south side.
20160705. John B. Parkin’s modernist Celestica (formerly IBM) Offices (1965) face demolition as the Crosstown comes to Don Mills and Eglinton.
20160703. John B. Parkin’s forever contemporary Ortho Pharmaceutical Building (1955).
20160630. Toronto’s modernist, unprotected Celestica (formerly IBM) Offices (1965) face redevelopment as The Crosstown comes to Don Mills and Eglinton.
20160629. Aerial of the award-winning Aquatic Centre in Regent Park.
20160628. Commerce Court North Vestibule Ceiling.
20160627. The beautifully designed TR2 Equinix Data Centre on Toronto’s Parliament St has porcelain panels reminiscent of punch cards.
20160626. The twin towers of the Edge on Triangle Park Condominiums.
