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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.
20151016. Toronto’s Sun Life Financial Tower at 1 York Street nears completion.
20151008. Hanging lights make Yorkdale Mall’s future Nordstrom a pretty construction site. Toronto.
20150705. Inside an interweaving of i-beams.
20150528. Construction of the Chaz Condos nears completion creating a chasm on Charles Street.
20150418. 208 wheels move the boring machine digging Toronto’s Eglinton Crosstown LRT tunnel.
20150329. The capped conduits watched construction of Union UP Express station progress.
20150309. The skeleton of a self-storage structure sits at a corner of Toronto’s Pump House Park.
