Tag Archives: architecture
20141122. Reflections in the Aga Khan Museum’s courtyard.
20141120. Toronto’s beautiful Art Deco apartments at 1477 Bayview (c.1941). Despite being heritage listed, they face development pressure.
This Garden Court Apartment complex has 10 buildings beautifully arranged around an interior court. It is one of the nicest places in Toronto and will be featured on this Saturdays Urban Exploration Walk.
There is a development proposal sign in front but a more recent city report recommends refusing the proposal and corresponding zoning plan amendment. The proposal called for the demolition of the complex to make way for, you guessed it, more condominiums.
20141119. The intriguing St. Mary’s Cement building in Leaside, Toronto was originally 2 storeys when built in 1976.
20141115.The Telus Laird Data Centre north elevation at dusk (Leaside, Toronto) – concrete-free post modern brutalism?
20141113. This strange, small facade conceals a much larger building that pre-dates the road (1947 Dundas W, Toronto).
20141112. The 1984-heritage-listed art deco Mayfair Mansions in South Hill, Toronto (Architect HC Roberts, c.1931).
20141110. A pedestrian bridge leads to the 1948 modernist 1,007,000 SF Kodak Building 205 in Rochester, NY.
20141109. The 1913 neo-gothic terra-cotta-clad 299 Queen St W, Toronto.
20141102. Today, the 1964-seat Theater on the Ridge (Kodak Building 28, c.1959) was officially occupied by the Rochester Association of the Performng Arts (RAPA).
20141027. Soon to be the last of 5 1958 modernist high-rises in Toronto’s Regent Park, will this empty building’s heritage status save it?
20141024. Looking down the rear of the Trader’s Bank Building in Toronto (67 Yonge St, Architects Carrère and Hastings, c.1906).
20141023. Rochester’s outstanding Chase Tower on its side (Architect John Graham, c.1973).
20141021. Rochester’s impressive and unusual Andrews Terrace apartment building (Architects Bertin & O’Connell, c.1975).
20141019. Downtown Rochester is a compelling confluence of varying architectural eras and styles.
20141014. From this height and viewpoint the CN Tower dwarfs every other building.
20141012. Below sits the American Hat Frame Building (c.1912, Toronto) where it seems each office has its own A/C.
20141010. A most unusual house on Coxwell Avenue in Toronto.
20141002. Parkin’s classic modernist Art Shoppe (2131 Yonge St, Toronto) is to be demolished to make way for condos.
20140927. Toronto’s coolest skylight, with its modernist 1972 design, brightens the indoors at night too.
20140926. The night lines and curves of Architect Viljo Revell’s Toronto City Hall.
20140922. The striking Residences at the RCMI at night, Toronto’s first car-free condominium.
This condominium at 426 University Avenue incorporates the facade of the former century-old Royal Canadian Military Institute (RCMI), a club for former military officers.
20140920. The Tip Top Tailors building – one of Toronto’s finest examples of art deco architecture (Bishop and Miller architects, 1929).
20140919. The weathered steel panels are massive at the new Fort York Visitor Centre in Toronto.
20140918. Toronto’s incredible Fort York Visitor Centre officially opens tomorrow.
