Tag Archives: heritage
20160730. Port Hope’s Walton Street is acclaimed as the best preserved main street in Ontario.
20160712. Toronto’s brilliant 1910 Lumsden Building sees its reflection for the first time.
20160618. The massive block-long building of the Toronto Carpet Manufacturing Company (1899. addition 1925).
20160609. Almost dinner time in the Distillery District.
20160605. Structures contemporary, temporary and of history in Toronto’s Distillery District.
20160519. Condo towers in Toronto’s Distillery District provide examples of compatibility and contrast in contextual design.
The white and blue towers contrast strikingly with the historic distillery buildings whereas the red towers seem compatible in shape and colour.
20160404. East elevation of Toronto’s once Consumers Gas Co. Purifying House No. 2 and now the Canadian Opera Company’s Opera Theatre.
Architects Strictland and Symens, 1888, Renaissance Revival.
The building was designed in the style of an early Christian basilica with a clerestory roof. It may have been built as a self-supporting structure and simply placed on top of the building so that any explosion would raise it without destroying the walls (from the COC’s website).
20160311. The original Palace Street School section (1858) of what became Toronto’s Cherry St Hotel and Canary Diner.
The Canary District (and former PAN AM Athlete’s Village) is named after the diner. This is the oldest multi-room school house in Toronto.
20160221. The Old Don Jail restored to its original stunning beauty II.
20160220. The Old Don Jail restored to its original stunning beauty.
20160213. An aerial view of the heritage-listed Clarence Square Building at 49 Spadina Street in Toronto.
Architects Sproatt and Rolph, c.1911.
Formerly the Steele Briggs Seed Company warehouse.
20160131. East United condos shall retain the original 1906 Christie, Brown & Co. Stables masonry in Old Town Toronto.
20160104. A three-alarm fire at 314 Jarvis Street in Toronto today has left an abandoned 1865 house gutted.
20151005. Scarborough Civic Centre self-reflection. Architect Raymond Moriyama, 1969.
20150910. Toronto’s Manulife Financial South Tower, built in 1926 with the top added in 1953.
20150820. 86 Lombard, the former City Morgue for Toronto (City Architect Robert McCallum, 1907).
20150510. Explore Art Deco architecture and interiors at the Design Exchange​. Doors Open Toronto​ 2015.
20141221. Belleville’s (Ontario, Canada) beautiful late Victorian Gothic city hall (c.1873) and first heritage asset.
20141217. Repairing the Burlington Bay Skyway heritage bridge (c.1958).
In 1985, a second bridge (behind) was added to double traffic capacity. This second bridge is unimpressive compared to the original and does not compliment it in anyway.
Could you imagine using the portable toilet near the top of the platform rigging on a cold windy day?
20141120. Toronto’s beautiful Art Deco apartments at 1477 Bayview (c.1941). Despite being heritage listed, they face development pressure.
This Garden Court Apartment complex has 10 buildings beautifully arranged around an interior court. It is one of the nicest places in Toronto and will be featured on this Saturdays Urban Exploration Walk.
There is a development proposal sign in front but a more recent city report recommends refusing the proposal and corresponding zoning plan amendment. The proposal called for the demolition of the complex to make way for, you guessed it, more condominiums.
20140827. The massive columns of Convocation Hall (c.1907) at the University of Toronto.
Architects Pearson and Darling, Classical Revival architectural style.
20140626. The old Canary Restaurant (c.1859), covered in platform rigging, is getting a face-lift (Pan Am Athletes’ Village or Canary District, Toronto).
