20230625. This 1906 S. Price and Sons Dairy Building (worth $31,000 then), and most recently Diamond Taxi, is an example of Edwardian Classicism by J. Francis Brown.
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20230531. Notice. A change is proposed for this site. I love 888 Dupont and wish it could stay despite the replacement condo tower having a decent design.
20230120. The newly restored heritage row at Yonge and Yorkville includes buildings from 1870 and Frogley’s bakery from 1887.
20230102. The Trull Funeral Home has died of redevelopment but will remain thanks to architectural taxidermy.
20220921. The mid-rise Maclean Hunter building facade seems secured for the construction of the 55 storey United Building at University and Dundas.
20220223. The Three Sisters of Sussex. Only the middle sister (aka the low energy retrofit Gemini House) kept her hat. University of Toronto, Second Empire, 1879.
20220222. Bracing a facade of built Heritage (John James Funston grocery store, 1885). Happy day of twos!
20210223. The construction office at 19 Duncan is mounted directly to the facade support structure.
20210205. The Theory Condos, a well-crafted and plausible place to live.
20210203. Partial demolition of the original Maclean Publishing Company building (Sproatt & Rolph, 1911) rear on Centre Street has left only the once striking buttresses standing.
20210119. 93 years later, Loblaws is open once again at Bathurst and Lakeshore but as a grocery store not the former Loblaw head office and warehouse.
20201220. Inside the facade of the 1942 Administrative Office of the Drug Trading Company and soon to be EQ Bank Tower.
20200308. Inside the facade of the future 2 Queen Street West.
20200307. A tower crane on a parkade to help build 2 Queen Street West.
20200223. The Loblaw Groceterias building (1928) has been resurrected as the West Block.
20200208. The Honest Ed’s redevelopment construction site shows just how big Honest Ed’s was. No wonder I got lost in there all the time.
20200206. Mirvish Village is looking a bit different these days.
20191229. Behind the facades of 19 Duncan Street, a future mixed-use development, significant progress has been made on excavation.
20191025. Keeping the podium of facades under wraps at 1 Yorkville.
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.
20190813. This modernist and moderne building is about to sprout an office tower.
20190620. The Loblaw Groceterias Warehouse is back again in a shroud.
20190524. Behind the facades of 19 Duncan Street, a future mixed-use development featuring a 58 storey condo tower.
20181003. The Park Hyatt Hotel revitalization project is underway converting this 1929 tower to luxury rental units.
20180725. An 1864 Italianate facade in the firm brace of Laurie McCulloch.
