Tag Archives: demolition
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.
20181217. One and a half pods down at the demolition of Davisville Public School, one of Toronto’s most impressive modernist schools.
20181215. And so the demolition of Davisville Public School, one of Toronto’s most impressive modernist schools, has begun.
20181010. Walking through a shipping container walkway (from 2016).
20180914. This is not a safe parking garage to leave your car in.
20180909. Lost Hallway.
20180819. From fortune cookie factory and typesetters to pizza (Bianca) condos.
20180718. The fully-exposed 1872 Fire Hall #3 clock tower and support-framed facadism highlight these now unrecognizable blocks northwest of Yonge and College.
20180609. Demolition at sunset. This 1940 building and the lot it is on will be replaced by 1500 condo units in the St. Lawrence neighbourhood.
20180401. Say goodbye to these white facades on Dufferin north of Queen as they get torn down for a trio of generic mid-rise condos. A sentimental second take.
20180331. Say goodbye to the white facade strip on Dufferin north of Queen as it gets torn down for a trio of generic mid-rise condos.
20180208. A truncated and transparent Honest Ed’s facade. Taken January 25, 2018.
