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20170110. Facades of Victorian houses on Glen Road in North St. James Town have been restored from dereliction (http://goo.gl/2NZhAf) as part of a Lanterra Developments’ project.
20161208. The nearly finished SQ Condominiums in #Toronto’s redeveloping Alexandra Park, contrast strongly but fittingly with the turn of the century mid-rise commercial buildings of Spadina Avenue.
20161205. South and north elevations at dusk of Onespadina, future iconic home of University of Toronto’s John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, as it nears completion.
20161104. The Broadview Hotel, once Jilly’s strip club, looks splendid once again.
20161020. New additions to the steadily densifying South Core include, from left to right, the Sun Life Financial tower, Harbour Plaza Residences (under construction) and RBC WaterPark Place III.
20161001. One Bloor dominates an ever-rising Toronto skyline.
20160930. This block on Yonge Street is to be demolished to make way for the 44-storey Clover on Yonge condominiums.
20160929. The massive concrete pads supporting the columns (or bents) of the Gardiner Expressway sit unearthed at the site of the future WestBlock / LakeShore / LakeFront development (where the art deco Loblaw Groceterias building will be re-built).
20160910. Aqualina condo construction continues behind Sherbourne Common’s glowing zinc-clad pavilion.
20160908. The unmistakable west facade of the almost ready Sun Life Financial Tower.
20160907. Ten York’s pointy podium takes shape on a wedge of land bordered by the Gardiner Expressway and one of its off-ramps.
20160829. Taking down Tim Hortons and a licensed rooming house to make way for Grid Condos.
20160626. The twin towers of the Edge on Triangle Park Condominiums.
20160624. The Picasso on Richmond’s blank western canvas.
20160621. The abstract yet patent facade of the Thompson Residences. Minimal Aesthetic 95.
20160620. The boiler house (building 38) at Toronto’s old Unilever factory, a site soon to be transformed by First Gulf.
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.
20160608. The bird-friendly art (Tadashi Kawamata’s Lamppost) in Toronto’s Canary District.
20160523. An aerial view of Toronto’s quickly rising Harbour Plaza Residences.
20160503. Toronto’s Yonge and Eglinton skyline continues to rise (looking north along Yonge Street).
20140416. An aerial view of Toronto’s new Picasso Condominium Tower and its red-accented cubic white volumes by Teeple Architects Inc.
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.
20160301. Waiting for the bus under a massive relic of modernism.
Toronto‘s Sutton Place Hotel was built in 1967 by WZMH Architects. After almost 50 years in service the building is being redeveloped as a condominium tower.
20160229. The shifting balconies of the 1Thousand Bay Condos.
