This is a 60 year old reconstruction of the 1864 original skylight, a rare sight in the 19th Century.
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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.
20150511. HOK opens their doors at Doors Open Toronto at the top of 400 University Ave.
20150510. Explore Art Deco architecture and interiors at the Design Exchange. Doors Open Toronto 2015.
20150507. Don’t forget the stunning Aga Khan Museum at Doors Open Toronto this year!
20150423. A Royal Ontario Museum abstraction: neo-Romanesque versus Deconstructivism.
20150416. Six lamps and a skylight at Toronto’s Atrium NOT on Bay.
20150415. A west view of Toronto’s concrete yet seemingly current Manulife Centre.
20150414. Wouldn’t it be lovely to live in a Pier 27 Prism?
20150410. Enter the Atrium. Toronto.
20150409. The 1913 Edwardian Classical Canadian Magazine Building (200 Adelaide W, Toronto).
20150408. Lines and steps in the shadow of Brutalism. Minimal Aesthetic 53.
20150405. The yellow at the core of Michael Lee-Chin’s Crystal. Royal Ontario Museum. Minimal Aesthetic 52.
20150402. One man versus a behemoth Brutalist building. Manulife Centre, Toronto.
20150331. Ryerson University’s Brutalist Podium building dominates O’Keefe Lane in Toronto.
20150330. Reflections mottle the east face of Toronto’s 1953 modern classical Crown Life Insurance Building.
20150328. North York’s late modernist Joseph Shepard Federal Building and its cuboid massing. Toronto, Macy DuBois Architect, 1977.
20150327. Markham’s concrete and coloured glass Unionville High School.
20150325. Glowing Stairwell in Profile. Minimal Aesthetic 51.
I liked these stairs more when they were incomplete: http://www.flickr.com/photos/vikpahwa/15747912008/