20220410. The overlapping window frames of Ottawa’s Place Vanier towers (1971).
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20210128. 777 Bay Street gleams at dusk. Webb Zerafa Menkes (now WZMH Architects), 1983.
20210122. Get some tasty tandoori or sell cash for gold at this postmodern scarborough strip mall.
20190509. 372 Richmond St W, a four-storey brick and beam building.
20170320. 1880s Victorian houses modeled into Yorkville’s York Square (1968), face development pressure to build a 30-storey condo on top.
20170104. Pink-orange postmodernism (McMurtry-Scott Building) provides the backdrop for a row of 19th-century semi-detached gothic revival houses (left-1889, right 1860) on Gerrard Street West. #toronto #architecture #postmodern
20161226. The Milburn building on Colborne Street – designed by the “master practitioner” of Richardsonian Romanesque architecture, E.J. Lennox (architect of Casa Loma and Old City Hall).
20161120. The early 20th-century mid-rise commercial buildings of the Toronto Entertainment District and future King-Spadina Heritage Conservation District (between King, Adelaide, Simcoe and Duncan Streets). #Toronto #architecture #aerial #HCD
20161108. The early 20th-century mid-rise commercial and industrial buildings of the Fashion District between King and Wellington Streets.
20161022. Sun and shadow contrast strongly on LCBO’s big box warehouse, site of a large future Menkes development.
20160922. The faces of buildings.
20160921. The unique Ontario Design Centre three building complex.
20160817. Looking down at one of the longest unsupported escalators in North America.
20160816. North York’s mirrored monolith (Nestle Building).
20160703. John B. Parkin’s forever contemporary Ortho Pharmaceutical Building (1955).
20160619. Before: A 1930 Newsome & Gilbert Limited class 1 brick and beam printing plant on King St West. Now: A partially demolished building making way for the future King Portland Centre.
20160618. The massive block-long building of the Toronto Carpet Manufacturing Company (1899. addition 1925).
20160216. Looking up at Toronto’s gleaming 777 Bay St at dusk (c.1983, Webb Zerafa Menkes).
20160204. Toronto’s Telus House tower stands out in the southcore.
20160201. Toronto’s Southcore Financial Centre shines below.
20150821. Ottawa’s fairly funky federal 1971 International Style Place Vanier towers.
20150806. Toronto’s Edwardian Classical 3 Church Street.
