Tag Archives: architecture
20150713. Six shades of blue at Toronto’s 210 Simcoe condos. Minimal Aesthetic 61.
20150712. Pickering GO station’s new walkway snakes between a new parkade and the Hwy 401 pedestrian bridge.
20150710. Beton brut bulwark (exposed wood-mold textured poured-in-place concrete wall). Minimal Aesthetic 60.
20150709. A full-length view of Toronto’s palace of purification (RC Harris Water Treatment Plant Filtration Building, Art Deco, c.1941).
Restoration completed by CH2M Hill with heritage consultant Taylor Hazell Architects Ltd.
20150708. Part of the perceptibly pristine palace of purification in profile (RC Harris Water Treatment Plant Filtration Building, Art Deco, c.1941).
20150706. Looking up at the flared top of one of North York’s Emerald Park condo towers.
20150705. Inside an interweaving of i-beams.
20150704. Reflecting sunlight dapples a reflection of the sun’s reflection. Commerce Court North, Toronto.
20150703. 3 mini-towers connected by glazed passageways make up Toronto’s River City Phase 2.
20150702. The art deco/ art moderne Maple Leaf Gardens, once a cathedral of hockey, hosts Pan Am basketball.
20150701. The view from the Sick Kids Research Centre frames the very tall Aura at College Park Condos.
20150630. The adaptive reuse of 545 King St W, Toronto includes this transformed laneway.
20150625. The beautiful designed TR2 Equinix Data Centre on Toronto’s Parliament St has porcelain panels reminiscent of punch cards.
20150531. Ionic columns rise above the entrance of Toronto’s iconic Dominion Public Building.
20150530. Brutalist Robarts ramparts protect the Library keep within at University of Toronto.
20150528. Construction of the Chaz Condos nears completion creating a chasm on Charles Street.
20150525. Looking up at the Old Don Jail skylight at Doors Open.
This is a 60 year old reconstruction of the 1864 original skylight, a rare sight in the 19th Century.
20150524. Doors Open took me to MARS to admire the elegant simplicity of an elevator lobby.
20150523. Today, Doors Open Toronto featured a cathedral of hexagons at the unique Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at University of Toronto.
20150517. At Doors Open Toronto, get your Gothic Revival fix at Knox College.
20150516. Take your feet to the Bata Shoe Museum during Doors Open Toronto.
20150515. A blue crystalline roof reaches for a blue sky. See the award-winning Ismaili Centre Prayer Hall at Doors Open Toronto.
20150513. Spend some time in jail at Doors Open at the Bridgepoint Hospital Administration building in Toronto.
20150512. Get inside the beautiful Beaux Arts Canada Life Building at Doors Open Toronto.
