Tag Archives: derelict
20241108. Notice anything missing?
20240621. From fast food to slow decay on Dundas. Can you guess the franchise?
20230403. Exposing Brick.
20220901. A derelict break at Pizza Manna in the very long Knob Hill strip mall.
20220508. On Davenport near Caledonia (Carleton Village), Toronto is a pretty gritty city.
20220311. A Ledbury Park modern mid-rise office building awaits demolition. Interesting features include curved brise soleil at the top and a semi-elliptical walkway.
20210731. Bridges of July #31. The Half Mile Bridge on the derelict Don Branch Railway before the barriers (from 2012).
20210729. The Pennsylvania Railroad crossed the Erie Canal on this 1918 ‘warren through truss with all verticals’ bridge. Genesee Valley Park, Rochester.
20201210. Smokestack. The decommissioned Richard L. Hearn Thermal Generating Station has no fence keeping urban explorers away.
20201128. An industrial ruin in Hamilton.
20180416. Laneway housing is not a new phenomenon in Brockton Village.
20180121. New Toronto’s abandoned Edwardian classical hydro substation.
20170507. Then and now pictures of a derelict concrete pier on Ward’s Island illustrate how much Lake Ontario’s water level has increased over the past few days.
20170425. It’s time to re-imagine the derelict Wellington Destructor.
20160511. Under the Unilever Water Tower.
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20151228. Derelict Ward’s Island Eastern Gap pier points to Toronto’s skyline.
The first image is how the pier looks today. The second image is how it looked in 1954. What a difference! Black and white photo courtesy of Toronto Public Library Digital Archives.