Tag Archives: infrastructure
20200922. Ventilation at the Copeland underground transformer station. Minimal Aesthetic 152.
20200918. The modern curves of Kipling Station, a great example of mid-century expressionist architecture not built in the mid-century.
20200914. The underpass from Canada’s Wonderland to nowhwere.
20200909. Similar to Toronto’s Gardiner Expressway, Nikola Tesla Blvd in Hamilton is above Burlington Rd E and acts as a bypass to local traffic.
20200905. Heading home over the Burlington (Bay James N. Allan) Skyway bridge.
20200903. High-rise living in Weston along the GO Transit Kitchener Line and the Union Pearson Express.
20200817. 500 Keele (Keele Centre) has changed from a CPR intermodal freight transport building built in 1969 to a business park housing small enterprises.
20200815. The door to Enwave’s Pearl Street steam plant is open among reflections from a neighbouring tower.
20200814. The Prince Edward Viaduct or (Bloor Viaduct) spans the Don River valley and the Lower Don River Trail (Edmund Burke, 1918).
20200712. Modernist Fire Station 422 (1965).
20200711. A sliver of sun sneaks through spans of this Gardiner Expressway box girder bridge.
20200707. Bell buildings are usually very handsome like this one at Bloor and Islington.
20200704. Bell Brutalism.
20200630. Under Highway 401 at Leslie Street.
20200628. The walkway between the TTC and the YRT at Vaughan Metropolitan Centre station is a colourful experience.
20200627. This old school pedestrian crossing at Oriole GO station will be removed for the realignment of the Highway 401 off-ramp to Leslie Street.
20200625. This CN Railway box girder bridge was featured in The Toronto Star’s The Fixer column nine years ago for looking so ugly. I like it.
20200620. Sun and shadow play on the Gardiner Expressway.
20200619. Removing a section of the Jarvis Street on-ramp.
20200617. A piece of old on-ramp sits above Jarvis Street waiting to be removed.
20200608. Tracks and transmission towers at Kiplng GO.
20200603. The 20 modern curves of Kipling Station, quite mid-century expressionist for a subway station that opened in 1980.
20200531. Dismantling the Jarvis Street on-ramp to the Gardiner Expressway.
20200517. The Junction’s namesake, the Junction Crossing, is now the West Toronto Diamond Grade Separation with one track going under the other improving service for CN, CP and GO Transit.
