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20170506. A support bent lies in the dirt at the abrupt end of the York / Bay / Yonge off-ramp.
20170421. Demolition of the Gardiner Expressway’s York / Bay / Yonge off-ramp has progressed rapidly in four days.
20170329. New and old bents (support columns with horizontal caps) stand side by side at a Gardiner Expressway off-ramp.
20170302. The apexual architecture of Ten York, wedged between expressway structures, is making a point.
20170122. The triangular King Highline residential and retail complex between King West and the rail corridor is rising fast.
20161225. Only two walls of the heritage-designated 1927 Canadian Westinghouse Building remain standing as construction commences on the future two-building King Blue Condominium and Hotel complex.
20160911. This is where the Gardiner Expressway’s future Simcoe Street off-ramp will land.
20160910. Aqualina condo construction continues behind Sherbourne Common’s glowing zinc-clad pavilion.
20160907. Ten York’s pointy podium takes shape on a wedge of land bordered by the Gardiner Expressway and one of its off-ramps.
20160523. An aerial view of Toronto’s quickly rising Harbour Plaza Residences.
20160510. An aerial view of TTC’s original Eglinton Station bus terminal – soon to be a memory.
This is where the tunnel boring machines that have completed tunneling the western leg of the Eglinton Crosstown LRT will be extracted.
20160312. All that remains of the 1928 Art Deco Loblaws Grocerterias Warehouse (Lakeshore and Bathurst, Toronto).
Don’t worry as they are going to be “re-establisng an original” by saving 100,000 bricks and stonework for the West and South faces with a couple of condo towers behind and an addition on top.
20160304. The anatomy of a fire exit stairwell.
20160301. Waiting for the bus under a massive relic of modernism.
Toronto‘s Sutton Place Hotel was built in 1967 by WZMH Architects. After almost 50 years in service the building is being redeveloped as a condominium tower.
20160228. A stripped 1967 brutalist Sutton Place Hotel shall transform into The Britt Condos.
20160208 Ready to break ground for Yonge and Rich condos in Toronto.
20160202. A crane now rises from the E Condos north building site at Yonge and Eglinton.
20151201. Fixing a $250,000 Toronto sinkhole at Yonge and College.
20151130. The art of exuviating an International Style concrete facade.
20151112. A yellow gantry crane against a reticulated blue sky.
This is the location of the future Lyon LRT Station on Ottawa’s new Confederation Line now under construction.
20151109. Changing the face of Dundas and University in Toronto.
It is sad to see the facade of this 1968 International Style tower being removed and replaced with temporary walls. The office tower will be reclad in glass and 37 floors of condominiums will be added above.
20151027. A boarded up block of Toronto’s Yonge Street will be home to the two tower Teahouse Condominiums.
20151021. Menkes’ The Eglinton condominiums will replace this 1970 mid-rise modernist skeleton.
20151019. A jib puts its tower crane in to perspective.
