Tag Archives: downtown toronto
20200303. An east profile reveals the EY Tower’s protrusion at the Richmond-Adelaide Centre.
20200221. The Scotiabank North Tower at the Bay Adelaide Centre is finally starting to go up.
20200220. I’ve often wondered how cranes are mounted in construction pits and now I have a clue.
20200319. Looking east and then west on Wellington Street West at sunset.
20200217. An unbearable sight at Union Station.
20200212. The rear of the Toronto Reference Library.
20200209. The new pedestrian bridge linking the future CIBC Square (and GO Transit Bus Station) to the PATH via the Scotiabank Arena is looking pretty good. Of course there are windows on the south side.
20200128. Backlit patterned glass wall. Can anyone guess the building?
20200121. Goodbye to University of Toronto’s Best (left, 1954) and Banting (right, 1930) Institutes named for the two men that discovered and commercialized insulin in 1922. They will be replaced by the Schwartz Reisman Innovation Centre.
20200120. At Front and Wellington sits a postmodern condo built to anticipate another building with only an insignificant building in front – the perfect development site yet it has no application.
20200113. The L in L-Tower stands for lunar.
20200106. The new GO Transit Bay Concourse at Union Station is starting to take shape and contrasts starkly from the old concourse also shown below.
20191229. Behind the facades of 19 Duncan Street, a future mixed-use development, significant progress has been made on excavation.
20191228. Taking advantage of a facade’s support structure in lighting a construction hoarding walkway at King and Peter.
20191227. The best construction hoarding in Toronto could be at Wellington and York, around the 1888 Toronto Club.
20191225. Taking advantage of facadism to sneak a peek at the Shangri-La Hotel.
20191218. The partial 1870 Andrew McFarren Building at 237 Queen St E. once extended along Queen St to Sherbourne St to the right but was truncated for a bank branch that no longer exists.
20191217. 488 University Avenue, formerly 38-storeys shorter and Brutalist, towers over Chinatown at Spadina and Dundas.
20191212. Bent (engineering): a traverse framework to carry lateral as well as vertical loads such as the demolished Bay off-ramp from the Gardiner Expressway that this one carried. Can we please save at least one?
20191211. Carlton Street is a corridor of architectural eras.
20191208. Removing stucco at College Park reveals the original brickwork and window openings filled with cement blocks.
20191129. U Condominium Underpass
20191121. The shortest of six bents, a temporary legacy to the bay street off-ramp, is the only one catching the setting sun.
20191119. A amorphous and pixelated CN Tower reflection on the Delta Hotel at dusk.
