Tag Archives: downtown toronto
20190910. This block of buildings bordered by University, Edward, Centre and Dundas, features art deco, gothic, modernist and international styles but will be replaced with a glass tower with only the end facades remaining.
20190830. Cinema Ras Variety Store & Cafe versus a Moss Park Apartment tower.
20190829. Sculptural piers effortlessly support the bulky National Life Building above its cantilevered second floor (John B. Parkin, 1974).
20190826. Adelaide Street E of Bay Street facing northwest.
20190822. Head on with the Eaton Centre’s 1 Dundas West office tower.
20190821. The vast CityPlace high-rise neighbourhood.
20190820. The Intercontinental Toronto Centre Hotel (1984) from above.
20190815. The CN Tower observation deck times two.
20190414. Repurposed shipping containers as offices on construction sites is all the rage now.
20190410. The big black dot at Bay Adelaide Centre East.
20190408. People walk by St. Luke Lane and its window on four eras of architecture – old commercial, modern, postmodern and contemporary.
20190407. Demolition reveals glass covered long ago between Yonge St and O’Keefe Lane south of Gerrard. This is the site of the future 85-storey YSL Residences condo tower.
20190331. In the Entertainment District alley ways give way to high-rise condominiums.
20190321. On Elm Street, the University of Toronto Faculty of Dentistry reflects the Hospital for Sick Children.
20181101. Behind the Fairmont Royal York is Piper Street.
20170912. Underneath Torque, the angled pedestrian overpass on Simcoe St.
20170911. The Picasso Condos is a conglomeration of cuboids. Taken April 2016.
20170328. One Spadina is just about ready for Faculty and Staff to move in.
20170108. The Art Deco Concourse Building at 100 Adelaide St W is back.
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.
20161109. A full-height view of the First Canadian Place tower.
20161023. The Eaton Centre is a facade of quadrilaterals.
20161022. Sun and shadow contrast strongly on LCBO’s big box warehouse, site of a large future Menkes development.
20160923. The big black dot at Bay Adelaide Centre East.
