20220221. The modern building at the Dufferin Gate to Exhibition Place.
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20170304. Up, underneath the Princes’ Gates celebrating 60 years of Confederation. Chapman & Oxley, Beaux Arts, 1927.
20161004. Allstream Centre symmetry.
20160821. The 1931 Art Deco Horse Palace at Exhibition Place.
20160307. The 1936 CNE Bandshell, Toronto’s Art Deco Hollywood Bowl.
20150225. The Toronto skyline and Canadian National Exhibition Grounds from 2000 feet.
From this point of view you can see how many more tall buildings we have – evidence that Toronto has more towers going up than any other city in North America. In the foreground, notice how large the Canadian National Exhibition grounds are and particularly how massive the Direct Energy conference centre is. It is the biggest squat square building in between the expressway and the lakeshore boulevard. And to the far right is the permanently sleepy Ontario Place. And finally I love how you can see the 32-year-deceased Hearn power plant on the other side of town in the barren port lands (reddish building with huge smokestack near water).
20140807. Attention! Go ziplining at Toronto’s EX this year from platform rigging secured by guy wires.
20140730. Putting all the Brutalist planters in one place in preparation for the CNE (Canadian National Exhibition) in Toronto.
This is as Canadian as concrete gets! It is not the letters CNE stamped in the concrete but rather what the concrete is made of. If you look closely, you can make out the smooth pebbles that the cement is mixed with. This type of concrete is found throughout Canada; in Brutalist buildings, concrete benches and the ground we walk on in places like Montreal’s Olympic park. It must be a lot of work hauling these around but I hope they keep them to remind us of our architectural past.