Tag Archives: infrastructure
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.
20201014. Looking up an old electricity pylon in the most likely abandoned Warden hydro corridor. North of Hwy 401, the towers have been removed and filled in with linear housing developments.
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.
