Tag Archives: downtown
20210302. Traffic time lapse during a break in the rehabilitation of the Gardiner Expressway (Summer 2020).
20210213. Sometimes the demolition of one building reveals an impressive view of another. Jorgensen Hall, Ryerson University, WZMH Architects, 1971.
20210208. Scotia Plaza Tower Grid.
20210207. Frost Building North and South, a landmark of modern office building architecture in Canada.
20210202. The anatomy of construction at 75 The Esplanade.
20201220. Inside the facade of the 1942 Administrative Office of the Drug Trading Company and soon to be EQ Bank Tower.
20201206. Looking up at the cast iron glass dome at Toronto’s Allan Gardens Conservatory Palm House.
20201204. The only similarity between the Chaz Condos and the 1966 Macy Dubois gem that it replaced is the octagonal shape of both buildings.
20201021. The most brutalist part of the former Grand Hotel has been demolished.
20201020. It is rare to see a skyscraper wrapped in plastic. Mowat Block, MacDonald Block Complex, Ontario Government. See the scaffolding below the plastic at https://bit.ly/35prG9l.
20201019. Alexandra Park’s new box and no gable townhouses contrast nicely with the old bay and gable rowhouses.
20201012. Bracing the facade of one of the heritage buildings along King St West for the King Toronto mixed use development.
20201011. Demolition of heritage buildings behind braced facades continues along King St West for the King Toronto mixed use redevelopment.
20201009. Geometrically, the Manulife Centre’s new glass skirt seems to work with the brutalist tower but its most interesting feature now lies hidden.
20201007. The view from here (standing on crumbling steps looking at the empty sign frames of a failed development).
20200925. If you go to MaRS, the Phase 2 building has a great lobby.
20200922. Ventilation at the Copeland underground transformer station. Minimal Aesthetic 152.
20200906. Downtown Rochester is a compelling confluence of varying architectural eras and styles.
20200831. The sun sets behind 555 Richmond St W, temporarily visible in its entirety but with an imprint of the demolished building that once obscured it.
20200830. The precast concrete brutalism of Apple Self Storage.
20200826. Bracing the facades of the heritage buildings along King St West (left – 511 King St W, GW Gouinlock, 1893, Richardsonian Romanesque) for the King Toronto mixed use redevelopment.
20200825. Mirror Town circa 2014.
20200824. Contrasting the size of the small row houses on Elm Street with the massive SickKids Research Institute.
20200810. Appreciating the Toronto Star building before it is incorporated into the new mega-development at One Yonge by Pinnacle International and Hariri Pontarini Architects.
