Tag Archives: demolition
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.
20160128. In with the new Riverside Square and out with the old Tippett Richardson building in Riverdale, Toronto.
20160125. A brutalist box shall give way to Riverside Square.
Demolition of this familiar site off Eastern Avenue in Toronto has already started. The new development will be the largest east of the Don River in ages.
20151215. Demolition minus the facade of another Yonge Street strip where the 1 Yorkville Condominiums will rise.
Please see the previous photo for the front facade of this new development site.
20151027. A boarded up block of Toronto’s Yonge Street will be home to the two tower Teahouse Condominiums.
20150413. Trees, lamps and demolition. Only Guvernment remnants remain (former Toronto nightclub).
20150318. Demolition of the last Dickinson-designed modernist tower in Toronto’s Regent Park is underway.
20150304. An aerial shot of demolition, redevelopment and contrast in Toronto’s Regent Park.
20150208. New and old contrast vividly in Toronto’s Regent Park during the demolition of its 2nd last modernist tower.
20150125. A view of many rooms in the 4th Dickinson modernist high-rise demolition in Toronto’s Regent Park.
20150122. Goodbye Guvernment. This complex in Toronto will meet the wrecking ball next week.
The Guvernment will give way to the Daniels Corporation for a commercial/residential community.
20141230. Demolition of these landmark silos (c.1893) has commenced in Toronto’s Junction neighbourhood.
These silos have a long history. Once they were the Campbell Flour Mills and were most recently owned by St. Marys Cement. There is talk about the site being used for a “suburban style plaza with surface parking” probably not unlike the Stockyards Mall recently completed nearby.
20141229. The remaining Inn on the Park building (c.1971) at Eglinton and Leslie in Toronto stands in a half demolished state.
According to the Progreen Demolition website, this is one of the highest buildings (25 storeys) ever demolished in the GTA. The first Inn on the Park building, a modernist structure by architect Peter Dickinson was demolished in 2006.