Tag Archives: demolition
20170329. New and old bents (support columns with horizontal caps) stand side by side at a Gardiner Expressway off-ramp.
20170217. Excavators and stained glass windows, together for a short time during the last days of the Woodgreen Church.
20170216. Dismantling a government building on a government block.
20170211. This charming unkempt building at College and Huron faces demolition then inaccurate facadism as part of the Design Haus condos by developer Shiu Pong and Kirkor Architects.
20170208. The NOW Magazine building is being demolished now to make way for the 29 storey Fleur Condos (Menkes Developments / Architects Alliance).
20170117. Currently, the Deer Park United Church (1912, Gothic Revival) is open to everyone.
20170116. The 1912 Gothic Revival Deer Park United Church awaits its future condo development with interior exposed (image 2).
20170115. Deer Park United Church is transcept-free. The apse and attached two-floor buildings that obscured the apse have been removed but the remainder will adjoin a new condominium development (image 1).
20161231. It’s been a fun year of photography and I look to forward to another year of imagery. Thanks for looking! Have a great 2017!
20161211. Demolition of the Bnai Fishel Towers parking garage is underway.
20161129. By night or day, this is an impressive shipping container walkway (880 Bay Street, Toronto).
20161103. Toronto’s safest and most impressive hoarding. Made of shipping containers, it protects the sidewalk in front of a government building slated for demolition at 880 Bay Street.
20160930. This block on Yonge Street is to be demolished to make way for the 44-storey Clover on Yonge condominiums.
20160906. Imminent demolition of the St. Lawrence Market North Building may unearth 200 years of history.
20160829. Taking down Tim Hortons and a licensed rooming house to make way for Grid Condos.
20160619. Before: A 1930 Newsome & Gilbert Limited class 1 brick and beam printing plant on King St West. Now: A partially demolished building making way for the future King Portland Centre.
20160516. A warehouse demolition reveals an appealing steel frame in Toronto’s Riverside neighbourhood.
Demolition of this former concrete warehouse makes way for the large Riverside Square development by Streetcar Developments.
20160328. Remembering the Art Deco Loblaw Groceterias Warehouse (Lakeshore and Bathurst, Toronto) before demolition.
Sparling, Morton and Forbes, c.1928.
20160324. Columns in plastic wrap and rows of lights march forward. Inside a warehouse demolition II.
20160320. Inside a warehouse demolition.
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.
20160218. Bye Hilton Garden Inn (200 Dundas E), hello Dundas Square Gardens (condos).
The hotel was originally a mid-century modernist office building with some redeeming elements as shown in the image below from the 1960’s. Thanks to Chuckman’s Photos on WordPress (https://chuckmantorontonostalgia.wordpress.com/).
20160130. Demolition makes way for the Minto Westside Condos in Toronto.
20160129. The last wall standing against the machines in Toronto’s Regent Park.
