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20220429. The intriguing facade of the soon to open Ace Hotel Toronto by Shim-Sutcliffe Architects.
20220411. A shard of CN Tower on the Ritz.
20210624. Brutalist June continues with Brutalism #24. Béton brut is the term used to describe concrete left unfinished after being cast like here at the Sheraton Centre Toronto.
20201104. The Queen St entrance to the Sheraton Centre, a complex built to compliment City Hall directly across the street (John B. Parkin Associates, 1972).
20201021. The most brutalist part of the former Grand Hotel has been demolished.
20200719. Nealon House at 197 King St E was a late Victorian era (1888) Romanesque Revival purpose-built hotel and may be once again.
20200513. Ripley vs Delta.
20200414. The only time the Four Seasons Hotel driveway is empty is during a pandemic-induced state of emergency.
20190925. City people and City People the art piece, by Catherine Widgery, hang out in front of the Royal York Hotel at golden hour.
20190820. The Intercontinental Toronto Centre Hotel (1984) from above.
20190817. A wormhole opens above the brutalist Econolodge Hotel in Smiths Falls.
20180601. The windowless west precast corduroy concrete facade of the Sheraton Centre tower.
20170922. An aerial view of Toronto’s Fairmont Royal York in profile.
20170330. A bird’s eye view of Skydome, I mean Rogers Centre, and its Renaissance Toronto Downtown Hotel.
20170127. A TTC Flexity Outlook LRV zooms past the Radisson Admiral Hotel on Queens Quay.
20161225. Only two walls of the heritage-designated 1927 Canadian Westinghouse Building remain standing as construction commences on the future two-building King Blue Condominium and Hotel complex.
20161224. Michael Snow’s Lightline art feature is finally active on the Trump International Hotel & Tower Toronto.
20161223. Looking up at the Trump International Hotel & Tower Toronto Lightline art feature that’s finally active but only after the developer defaulted on its debt and put the building up for sale – the name Trump will no longer disgrace the skyscraper.
20160706. The complex cubic massing of the Shangri-La Hotel podium’s south side.
20160327. Looking up Pittsburgh’s 1959-built Wyndham Grand Hotel, an example of the city’s marvelous mid-century modernism.
20160319. Walking by the Interncontinental cliff in Toronto’s Simcoe canyon.
The 1984-built Interncontinental Toronto Centre Hotel was formerly the Crowne Plaza Hotel Toronto and L’Hotel CN before that.
20160301. Waiting for the bus under a massive relic of modernism.
Toronto‘s Sutton Place Hotel was built in 1967 by WZMH Architects. After almost 50 years in service the building is being redeveloped as a condominium tower.
20160228. A stripped 1967 brutalist Sutton Place Hotel shall transform into The Britt Condos.
20160225. Toronto’s 1972 brutalist Grand Hotel may be redeveloped into a 45 storey tower.
ERA Architects conducted the heritage impact statement. In short the building is not heritage-listed, not in a Heritage Conservation District and its height is not out of character with coming development. Amexon Development and CORE Architects Inc are behind the proposal.