Tag Archives: heritage
A reflection of the photographer and his subject – the Liberty Village castle (Gillett Company Factory, 1812).
20170813. The blank facade of Uno Prii’s 1972 Spadina Towers in the park.
20170628. The contrast between 19th century architecture and contemporary condo tower at 582 Sherbourne. Featured in Toronto Architecture: A City Guide.
20170530. La Tourelle (1911) is a Rosedale castle by renowned Arts and Crafts architect Eden Smith.
20170425. It’s time to re-imagine the derelict Wellington Destructor.
20170420. Symmetry at the corner of Royal Bank Plaza South.
20170416. Benjamin Brown’s Hermant Building east tower after restoration by ERA Architects.
20170320. 1880s Victorian houses modeled into Yorkville’s York Square (1968), face development pressure to build a 30-storey condo on top.
20170315. This row of buildings at 738-744 Bathurst St (at Lennox St) will be conserved in the Westbank-developed Mirvish Village.
20170307. The 1892 Queen Anne Revival 2.5-storey fourplex Henry Mullen Buildings shall remain in the Westbank-developed Mirvish Village.
20170304. Up, underneath the Princes’ Gates celebrating 60 years of Confederation. Chapman & Oxley, Beaux Arts, 1927.
20170228. An undulating translucent 7 St. Thomas rises out of the 1887 Victorian row house facades below.
20170221. The 1935 art deco Allenby Theatre, once the Roxy and Toronto home to the The Rocky Horror Picture Show and now a Tim Hortons, designed by the master theatre architects Kaplan & Sprachman, and built for about $10,500.
20170119. The Globe and Mail’s second building, like its first (from where this entranceway comes), will soon be demolished.
20170110. Facades of Victorian houses on Glen Road in North St. James Town have been restored from dereliction (http://goo.gl/2NZhAf) as part of a Lanterra Developments’ project.
20170108. The Art Deco Concourse Building at 100 Adelaide St W is back.
20161226. The Milburn building on Colborne Street – designed by the “master practitioner” of Richardsonian Romanesque architecture, E.J. Lennox (architect of Casa Loma and Old City Hall).
20161220. Celebrated Canadian architect Uno Prii, known for sculpted concrete buildings in Toronto, dabbled with rectilinear forms in his later years including the 1983 Brutalist Alan Brown Building, a staff residence for The Hospital for Sick Children.
20161212. Once painted greyish blue, this revived picturesque 1888 Queen Anne house shows its original red brick. 110 Park Road, Rosedale.
20161120. The early 20th-century mid-rise commercial buildings of the Toronto Entertainment District and future King-Spadina Heritage Conservation District (between King, Adelaide, Simcoe and Duncan Streets). #Toronto #architecture #aerial #HCD
20161108. The early 20th-century mid-rise commercial and industrial buildings of the Fashion District between King and Wellington Streets.
20161101. The grand classical entrance to the recently renovated Nelson Mandela Park Public School.
20160913. The Merchandise Building (1910) dominates Toronto’s Dalhousie Street.
20160813. A new facade joins a heritage commercial strip on Yorkville’s Scollard Street.
