Tag Archives: downtown
20200501. The patterned concrete of the enwave Walton Street Steam Plant north facade.
20200430. After suffering two fires within two days a month ago, the heritage properties 422-424 Wellington St W and its redevelopment Wellington House may be at risk.
20200429. The Royal Alexandra’s rear is rather symmetrical.
20200428. Looking up at the Grange Apartments on McCaul Street yields interesting concrete detailing on a stairwell enclosure.
20200427. Reflections of sunlight from a neighbouring mirrored tower give Toronto Police 52 Division a festive look.
20200424. The sun glints over the Sun Life Centre.
20200423. A homeless person sleeps in front of the Neo-Georgian National Club that offers its members a private downtown enclave. Curry Sproatt & Rolph, 1907.
20200422. A blank arrivals and departures board in the Great Hall shows just how quiet Union Station is these days.
20200421. Several fire-damaged houses with fake mullioned board windows greet passersby on George St. as they wait to be included in the redevelopment of the next door Seaton House, one of the largest homeless shelters in Toronto.
20200420. Sun but no life at the Sun Life Building.
20200416. Under the podium of the Toronto Superior Court of Justice Courthouse (FH Marani, 1966).
20200411. Demolition on Elizabeth Street has revealed some fine brutalism at the Enwave Walton Street Steam Plant.
20200410. Stop the Spread. Yonge-Dundas Square.
20200409. Five high-rise condos surround a small 1983 brick and concrete tower at the once low-rise intersection of Jarvis and Dundas.
20200408. The fairly brutalist 1973 Parkside Student Residence (formerly the Best Western Primrose Hotel) at Jarvis and Carlton.
20200407. Stairs and shiny stainless steel at Commerce Court West. I.M Pei, 1972.
20200406. At 3:40 PM on a Monday, Toronto’s SkyWalk and entrance to UP Express is empty.
20200403. The postmodern portal to the PATH.
20200402. The Shangri-La Hotel and Residences between the towers of the Sun Life Centre.
20200331. TD Centre overpass before a black and white sea of steel and glass.
20200330. TD Centre overpass with a Royal Bank Plaza background.
20200316. From here, Yonge Street seems to be a boulevard of facades.
20200315. The rear facade of Toronto’s Seventh Post Office (1853, a national historic site) where Conrad Black was taped removing document boxes from his office.
20200225. Looking up at a corner of the brutalist ziggurat at 222 Jarvis and home to four Ontario Government ministries. Minimal Aesthetic 147. Surveillance 1.
