Tag Archives: demolition
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.
20190318. A 46 storey office tower will replace this 1905 commercial building at 156 Front St W. The front facade of the old building will be dismantled and reconstructed.
20190306. Another parking garage and a great place for elevated views bites the dust. Yorkville between Bay, Yonge, Yorkville and Cumberland.
20190131. Remembering the demolition of one of Dickinson’s modernist towers in Regent Park.
20190119. A sad demolition can be pretty when it snows. Bye-bye Davisville Public School, you were special.
20190117. The main pod of the impressive modernist Davisville Public School is looking very different these days.
20181221. Demolition follows the securing of former storefronts in the process of facadism. The original storefronts are in the second image below.
