Tag Archives: history
20170425. It’s time to re-imagine the derelict Wellington Destructor.
20170320. 1880s Victorian houses modeled into Yorkville’s York Square (1968), face development pressure to build a 30-storey condo on top.
20170211. This charming unkempt building at College and Huron faces demolition then inaccurate facadism as part of the Design Haus condos by developer Shiu Pong and Kirkor Architects.
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).
20161128. The rich and varied architectural history of Toronto’s Jarvis Street.
The three row houses to the left (1862) were originally part of a Georgian eight-house row. The Second Empire features – mansard roofs and bowed bays – were added about 20 years later. The double house to the right (1874) is an example of Italiante architecture with round-headed windows and doors and bracketed cornices. Thanks to Patricia McHugh’s 2nd edition of Toronto Architecture: A City Guide.
20161121. Three English Cottage Style structures, each with seven houses of varying plans, make up Rosedale’s Ancroft Place, a unique Garden City 21-unit housing complex (1927, Shepard & Calvin).
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
20161113. Originally the Harris Henry Fudger house (1898), this is one of the many incredible houses in Rosedale.
20161111. The R.C. Harris Water Treatment Plant Service Building is impressive even in the rear view.
20161010. A 1931 Art Deco garage entrance to drive through at the Mayfair Mansions in South Hill, Toronto.
20161005. From left to right, the three buildings of the wonderful Art Deco R. C. Harris Water Treatment Plant are the Pumping Station, Service Building and Filtration Building.
20161004. Allstream Centre symmetry.
20161002. BMO Field’s west entrance is all that remains of the modernist Canada Sports Hall of Fame (1961-2005).
20160906. Imminent demolition of the St. Lawrence Market North Building may unearth 200 years of history.
20160821. The 1931 Art Deco Horse Palace at Exhibition Place.
20160722. The 1938 591m Bill Thorpe Walking Bridge in Fredericton, New Brunswick.
20160609. Almost dinner time in the Distillery District.
20160605. Structures contemporary, temporary and of history in Toronto’s Distillery District.
20160504. Beauty in a brick and beam building near Bathurst St in Toronto.
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).
20160328. Remembering the Art Deco Loblaw Groceterias Warehouse (Lakeshore and Bathurst, Toronto) before demolition.
Sparling, Morton and Forbes, c.1928.
20160312. All that remains of the 1928 Art Deco Loblaws Grocerterias Warehouse (Lakeshore and Bathurst, Toronto).
Don’t worry as they are going to be “re-establisng an original” by saving 100,000 bricks and stonework for the West and South faces with a couple of condo towers behind and an addition on top.
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.
20160307. The 1936 CNE Bandshell, Toronto’s Art Deco Hollywood Bowl.
