Tag Archives: architecture
20160218. Bye Hilton Garden Inn (200 Dundas E), hello Dundas Square Gardens (condos).
The hotel was originally a mid-century modernist office building with some redeeming elements as shown in the image below from the 1960’s. Thanks to Chuckman’s Photos on WordPress (https://chuckmantorontonostalgia.wordpress.com/).
20160217. The sublime River City 1 blends brilliantly with blue sky.
20160216. Looking up at Toronto’s gleaming 777 Bay St at dusk (c.1983, Webb Zerafa Menkes).
20160215. Below Toronto’s Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute double helix pedestrian bridge at St. Michael’s Hospital.
20160214. Large scale minimal art in Toronto’s new Bay Adelaide Centre East. Minimal Aesthetic 84.
20160206. Toronto’s new Brant Park Condos provide a great backdrop for an old boutique office building on Camden Street.
20160206. Beare’s Limited, a five story brick and beam building, rises above.
Toronto c.1910
20160204. Toronto’s Telus House tower stands out in the southcore.
20160203. Toronto’s impressive 60 Richmond housing cooperative caught by a setting sun.
20160201. Toronto’s Southcore Financial Centre shines below.
20160131. East United condos shall retain the original 1906 Christie, Brown & Co. Stables masonry in Old Town Toronto.
20160128. In with the new Riverside Square and out with the old Tippett Richardson building in Riverdale, Toronto.
20160126. River City Phase 1 and 2 rise above Toronto’s Don River.
20160125. A brutalist box shall give way to Riverside Square.
Demolition of this familiar site off Eastern Avenue in Toronto has already started. The new development will be the largest east of the Don River in ages.
20160123. Buildings both large and small, short and tall.
20160121. A balcony-railing-free Regent Park high-rise.
20160119. Toronto’s skyline from where King and Queen meet in Corktown with the Streetcar Lofts in the foreground.
20160118. The Exhibit across from the museum in Toronto.
20160117. A top down view of Toronto’s River City Phase 2.
20160116. An aerial view of Regent Park’s white aluminum-cladded One Park Place Condos.
20160115. Archetypal octagonal zig-zag modernist architecture in Etobicoke.
20160113. A quintuplet of chapels at Guelph’s Church of our Lady Immaculate.
20160112. The impressive Canada Square Complex at Yonge and Eglinton (Kenneth Cooper 1963, 1972).
20160110. The Duke of York / Regent Park Junior Public School, a decrepit but excellent example of institutional modernism is now gone.
