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20240423. The Duplate Canada Building (right, Allward & Gouinlock, 1957) and the Rolex building (left Allward & Gouinlock, 1951) have an interesting history and will be featured in my upcoming tour “Modern Scenes on St. Clair II” with Heritage Toronto.

Image April 24, 2024 Vik

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20240422. The Daily Food Mart at 8 Pailton is an interesting building with a front facade following the road and a built-in wall. It will be replaced by a parkette north of a new condo to be built at 214 Merton.

Image April 24, 2024 Vik

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20240421. The moving heritage bank building wall.

Image April 22, 2024 Vik

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20240420. The modernist Moss Park Armoury (Page & Steele Architects, 1966), has lost some of its modernism. Take a look at the roofline in both images (taken 2024 and 2020).

Image April 20, 2024 Vik

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20240419. Campbell Block at Dundas and Keele. James Augustus Ellis, 1888.

Image April 20, 2024 Vik

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20240404. The missing middle is coming back.

Image April 5, 2024 Vik

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20211103. Something’s afoot at the patched up and twice fire damaged heritage property at 422-424 Wellington Street West.

Image November 3, 2021 Vik

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20201007. The view from here (standing on crumbling steps looking at the empty sign frames of a failed development).

Image October 8, 2020 Vik

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20200505. The 1930 East Toronto Masonic Temple clubhouse

May 5, 2020 Vik

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20200503. Toronto Hydro’s Windsor Station was built in 1950, uses equipment past its useful life but puts out a maxed out 300 MW of power for the area west of the downtown core.

May 4, 2020 Vik

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20200430. After suffering two fires within two days a month ago, the heritage properties 422-424 Wellington St W and its redevelopment Wellington House may be at risk.

Image May 1, 2020 Vik

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20200421. Several fire-damaged houses with fake mullioned board windows greet passersby on George St. as they wait to be included in the redevelopment of the next door Seaton House, one of the largest homeless shelters in Toronto.

Image April 21, 2020 Vik

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20200202. Toronto City Council has endorsed replacing the brutalist St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts with a new state-of-the-art cultural and civic hub.

Image March 12, 2020 Vik

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20200127. An LCBO right out of what I presume is the 1970s. 1090 The Queensway.

Image March 12, 2020 Vik

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20200121. Goodbye to University of Toronto’s Best (left, 1954) and Banting (right, 1930) Institutes named for the two men that discovered and commercialized insulin in 1922. They will be replaced by the Schwartz Reisman Innovation Centre.

March 10, 2020 Vik

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20200109. Stripping away the brutalist elements at 1200 Eglinton Ave E (near Wynford Drive), a classic building by Raymond Moriyama.

Image March 5, 2020 Vik

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20191225. Taking advantage of facadism to sneak a peek at the Shangri-La Hotel.

February 19, 2020 Vik

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20191218. The partial 1870 Andrew McFarren Building at 237 Queen St E. once extended along Queen St to Sherbourne St to the right but was truncated for a bank branch that no longer exists.

February 17, 2020 Vik

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20190918. The 1877 Italianate Richard Purdom House (207 McCaul St) named for the architect who commissioned the residence.

September 30, 2019 Vik

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20190509. 372 Richmond St W, a four-storey brick and beam building.

May 10, 2019 Vik

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20190422. Behind the buildings of Adelaide Street West.

April 22, 2019 Vik

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20190328. St. Paul the Apostle Church, a Maltese-Canadian Parish in Malta Village.

March 29, 2019 Vik

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20180814. Lambton House and its highrise backdrop.

August 14, 2018 Vik