Tag Archives: infrastructure
20200320. A concrete tree stump access point to the reservoir below at the Lorne Park Water Treatment Plant.
20210302. Traffic time lapse during a break in the rehabilitation of the Gardiner Expressway (Summer 2020).
20210211. There is a lot of streetcar infrastructure at King and Dufferin. Oh and that’s JW Gouch’s 1913 A.B. Ormsby pressed metal factory showroom in the background.
20210201. Want to shoot a movie at an airport? Well TriBro Studios has just what you need at the Toronto Pearson International Airport.
20210130. Peering through steel bridge piers across the West Don River.
20210129. A clutter of street lights.
20210127. Light-induced diamonds in the subway.
20210125. Glencairn Station has a new skylight system, a reimagination of the original skylight panels by artist Rita Letendre that were removed due to water damage.
20210124. Parking under the overpass at Lawrence East Station.
20210115. In the construction pit at Kennedy Station where the Eglinton Crosstown will end.
20210114. Putting into perspective just how big a traffic light is with an unusual installation at a parking garage entrance.
20210112 A brutalist radome-topped ground radar tower in the Toronto Pearson International Airport infield cargo area.
20201223. The entirely fenced in pedestrian bridge over the GO Transit and Scarborough Rapid Transit lines.
20201216. Remembering the old GO Transit concourse at Union Station (1979) and one of its nicest design elements – the doors.
20201215. The vacant Toronto Hydro transformer substation at 281 Cherry Street is a modest example of Edwardian Classical styling from 1928.
20201213. After 17 years of operation, the old $9 000 000 GO Bus Terminal at 141 Bay Street is being demolished.
20201212. The new Storm Water Quality Facility (SWQF) at Lake Shore and Cherry to treat urban run-off from new West Don Lands development.
20201210. Smokestack. The decommissioned Richard L. Hearn Thermal Generating Station has no fence keeping urban explorers away.
20201209. With mobile gantry cranes parked and no girders to be seen, it seems that Phase 1 of the Gardiner Expressway Rehabilitation from Jarvis to Cherry Streets is just about done.
20201207. The new Union Station bus terminal is now open but there isn’t much to see. It’s as bland as the new GO Train concourse and the boarding area is not visible to the public.
20201110. Looking east over the tip of Ordnance Triangle where the Union Station Rail Corridor splits.
20201106. Looking east along the Gatineau Hydro Corridor through Rouge Nation Urban Park and over the Rouge River.
20201030. The new King-Liberty Pedestrian Bridge (connecting King Street W and Liberty Village), complementing the Strachan Ave rail trench, is almost open.
20201018. The Pharmacy Avenue overpass crosses the CPR railway tracks and this tiny parking lot.
