Tag Archives: infrastructure
20150422. A full-length track-side shot of Toronto’s almost ready UP Express Union Station.
20150421. A southbound night view of the Eglinton West subway station. Toronto.
20150420. Toronto’s very modern Eglinton West subway station really shines at night.
20150419. Above a dark TTC Eglinton West station flanked on both sides by an empty Allen Rd in Toronto.
20150418. 208 wheels move the boring machine digging Toronto’s Eglinton Crosstown LRT tunnel.
20150417. The massive 2.4 Gigawatt NY State Robert Moses Niagara Power Plant (1961).
20150401. The stylish Bayview Westbound stop on VIVA’s Highway 7 East Rapidway.
20150326. Impressive train shed metalwork revealed by revitilization at Toronto’s Union Station.
20150308. The unique 1971 modernist Building T pumping station in Toronto’s Pump House Park.
The attributes that make this building unique include the circular plan, the engaged inverted engaged catenary arches on the lower wall and the taller engaged catenary arches on the upper wall with fins that extend beyond the original roofline. Unfortunately, the recently added metal penthouse (or cap on top) obscures these fins from view and diminishes the brilliant original design that you can see at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pumping_station_in_Ashbridges_Bay_Toronto.jpg. This pumping station is officially known as the Mid-Toronto Interceptor Pumping Station but being a part of the Ashbridges Bay Treatment Plant, it goes by the name Building T.
20150305. “The next station is Yorkdale, Yorkdale Station.” Toronto’s TTC Line 1 runs north up the Allen Expy.
20150302. Toronto’s modern, functional, handsome yet understated St. George TTC Subway transformer station (1963).
20150301. The Brutalistic pre-cast concrete lines of Toronto’s TTC Kipling Station electrical substation.
20150213. Pipes and handrails follow stairwell contours in Toronto’s TTC Pape Subway station.
20150202. The curved concrete modernism of Toronto’s TTC Wilson Station waiting area and wind barriers
20150126. Toronto’s John Street Roundhouse (c.1929) is home to Toronto Railway Museum, SteamWhistle Brewing and Leons Furniture.
To learn more about the history of the John Street Roundhouse, come to a talk this Saturday: http://ow.ly/HZuho
20150124. Toronto’s new PATH bridge looms above Lower Simcoe St but is dwarfed beneath the CN Tower.
20150116. Vanishing down the pedestrian bridge to Toronto Pearson International Airport’s Terminal 1 Express Park Garage.
20150113. Toronto Pearson Airport’s automated Terminal Link Train zips by as it is pulled by cable between stations.
20150109. This pedestrian bridge leads to the impressive facade of the Value Park Garage from Pearson Airport’s Terminal Link Train Viscount Station.
20150106. Approach Toronto’s international airport on the new Union Pearson Express later this year.
20141226. The world’s highest hydraulic lift lock resides in Peterborough, Ontario on the Trent-Severn Waterway.
The Peterborough Lift Lock lifts ships 19.8 metres (max 30.5 m long, max 7.3 m wide, max 99,000 kg). The 386 km waterway (with 45 locks and 39 swing bridges and 20 km of man-made channels), is a Canadian National Historic Site and takes 5-7 days to traverse. Construction begain in 1833 and by 1920 a ship could travel from Lake Ontario to Lake Huron. At the time it was built, it was the largest un-reinforced concrete structure on Earth.
20141225. The Milne Dam (latest build 1968) on the Rouge River is the seed from which Markham, Ontario sprang.
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?
20141216. Symmetry straight up a tower of power. Minimal Aesthetic 45.
