Tag Archives: downtown
20160828. An aerial view on a Mies van der Rohe masterpiece – the TD Centre.
20160820. The Fashion District’s Fashion House Condos.
20160819. Toronto’s CityPlace skyline.
20160802 Looking west along Adelaide St, it is apparent that Toronto’s core is condominium central.
20160730. Port Hope’s Walton Street is acclaimed as the best preserved main street in Ontario.
20160728. Hemmed in by skyscrapers in downtown Toronto.
2060721. Take a moment to reflect on the beauty of what lies below before you jump.
20160719. Toronto’s L-Tower looks as impressive from the sky as from the ground.
20160718. An architectural reminiscence of what came before Toronto’s Tableau Condominiums.
See http://goo.gl/y3cuYA for this building’s previous incarnation.
20160706. The complex cubic massing of the Shangri-La Hotel podium’s south side.
20160622. An aerial view of Toronto Union Station’s historic exposed train shed steel structure.
Progress on the train shed has stalled as the future electrification of Go Transit trains will require either modifying the overhead wiring system to fit under the shed, lowering the floor or raising the roof with the latter being the worst case scenario as it involves considerable cost and harming the historic steel structure.
20160621. The abstract yet patent facade of the Thompson Residences. Minimal Aesthetic 95.
20160613. A full length rear aerial view of Toronto’s new Tableau Condominiums.
20160607. The prismatic podium of Toronto’s rhomboidal Burano on Bay Condos.
20160512. An aerial view of Toronto’s Fashion District and the northern border of the King-Spadina Heritage Conservation District.
20160329. Pittsburgh’s Postmodern Glass Gothic PPG Place.
20160327. Looking up Pittsburgh’s 1959-built Wyndham Grand Hotel, an example of the city’s marvelous mid-century modernism.
20160219. The facade of an inverted brutalist ziggurat.
20160214. Large scale minimal art in Toronto’s new Bay Adelaide Centre East. Minimal Aesthetic 84.
20160208 Ready to break ground for Yonge and Rich condos in Toronto.
20160203. Toronto’s impressive 60 Richmond housing cooperative caught by a setting sun.
20160201. Toronto’s Southcore Financial Centre shines below.
20160122. Toronto Osgoode Station’s new look – better than before but not as good as the days of yore.
20151219. A mosaic of tiles welcomes the commuter to St. Patrick Station.
