Tag Archives: downtown
20190524. Behind the facades of 19 Duncan Street, a future mixed-use development featuring a 58 storey condo tower.
20190523. The 1927 neo-Gothic warehouse-loft Fashion Building by Kaplan & Sprachman at Spadina Ave and Richmond St W.
20190518. The doomed buildings of Commerce Court.
20190517. Looking up at the tip of Ten York Street.
The condominium behind this lovely 1891 Gothic Revival building is a bad example of contextual architecture – a principle of design in which a structure is designed with reference to its surroundings.
20190215. Three ornate warehouse buildings (1872-74) on Front St E. From left to right: Dixon Building (the last Toronto building with a cast iron facade), Perkins Inc. and Co., Beardmore Building.
20190119. A sad demolition can be pretty when it snows. Bye-bye Davisville Public School, you were special.
20190117. The main pod of the impressive modernist Davisville Public School is looking very different these days.
20190116. The steel support structure for the elevated park between the future CIBC Square’s two towers spans the Union Station rail corridor.
20181225. Below the metal Christmas lit canopy of the Allen Lambert Galleria at Toronto’s Brookfield Place.
20181217. One and a half pods down at the demolition of Davisville Public School, one of Toronto’s most impressive modernist schools.
20181215. And so the demolition of Davisville Public School, one of Toronto’s most impressive modernist schools, has begun.
20181213. An ornate Ontario Cottage with its symmetrical rectangular plan and single gable above the door in the centre of the building.
20181212. The 1887 Victorian row house facades at the base of 7 St. Thomas.
20181203. The rear facade of Toronto’s Seventh Post Office (1853) where Conrad Black was taped removing document boxes from his office.
20181202. The colourful pedestrian bridge linking the North and South buildings of the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.
20181126. The new Union Food Court on the lower retail level of Union Station’s GO Transit terminal.
20181123. Jarvis and Dundas – skyscrapers abound where there were none.
20181122. The Grid Condos facade.
20181023. Downtown Density
20191011. Looking up at the Great Hall’s intricate and varied ceiling at Union Station.
20181004. The rejuvenated towers of Maple Leaf Quay.
20181001. Head down to the Manulife Centre to see how to mess up a Brutalist masterpiece. The images below show the building before and during the so-called revitalization.
20180930. About to touch down at Billy Bishop Island Airport.
