20211004. Demolitions can be beautiful. Two modern mid-rises are coming down in Greenwood-Coxwell as Toronto Community Housing rebuilds the Don Summerville Apartments.
Tag Archives: demolition
20210916. That iconic view of the Gardiner Expressway is changing rapidly.
20210907. Lake Shore Blvd East and the Don Roadway looks much brighter now as demolition of the Gardiner Expressway east end ramps moves quickly.
20210901. Toronto Today #1. The Gardiner Expressway east end ramps are now closed permanently as the city prepares to demolish the section east of the Don Valley Parkway on-ramps.
20210528. 4D or not 4D. That is the question. The unique concrete shade structures appear around the top and south sides of all windows for ‘heavy’ shade. Also interesting is how the entrances respond to the slope of the ground with more steps, a longer handrail and a thicker concrete pad.
20210527. Campbell’s has left New Toronto due to their overproduction of soup. A distribution centre is moving in.
20210302. Traffic time lapse during a break in the rehabilitation of the Gardiner Expressway (Summer 2020).
20210203. Partial demolition of the original Maclean Publishing Company building (Sproatt & Rolph, 1911) rear on Centre Street has left only the once striking buttresses standing.
20210118. Under the guise of accelerating construction for affordable housing, the Province has commenced demolition of the heritage-listed 1917-1929 Dominion Wheel and Foundries Company Buildings in the Canary District without the requisite paperwork. Help Friends of the Foundry save the building by signing their petition at https://bit.ly/3oY0Tti.
20201213. After 17 years of operation, the old $9 000 000 GO Bus Terminal at 141 Bay Street is being demolished.
20201205. Deer Park United Church Cross Section.
20200716. Charles Street will soon have an 8th high-rise – 68 Charles St E may be known as The Manhattan for this heritage building’s style.
20200619. Removing a section of the Jarvis Street on-ramp.
20200617. A piece of old on-ramp sits above Jarvis Street waiting to be removed.
20200531. Dismantling the Jarvis Street on-ramp to the Gardiner Expressway.
20200205. Look for the Golden Arches (1960 slogan)! You deserve a break today (1971 slogan). We do it all for you (1975 slogan) but not at King and Dufferin where the McDonald’s is being demolished for – you guessed it – more condos!
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.
20200108. The construction site at 160 Front St is almost fully excavated underneath the rear face of the remaining heritage facade.
20191204. Buildings fall and towers rise. Nobu Residences site in January 2019.
20191015. Behind the facades of Toronto history on Yonge Street.
20191009. Only the north and west facades remain of the 1924 Gerrard Buidling which is a rare example of the Modern Gothic style adapted to a commercial building (Heritage Listed 1994).
20190917. This appears to be token facadism but word has it that the rest of the south wall will return. This image shows the building before and after demolition at 156 Front St W.
20190807. Preserving the facades below the future 85-storey YSL Residences condo tower.
20190407. Demolition reveals glass covered long ago between Yonge St and O’Keefe Lane south of Gerrard. This is the site of the future 85-storey YSL Residences condo tower.
20190319. A six-storey community housing building awaits demolition in Regent Park’s Block 1, for Phase 3 of development.
