Tag Archives: infrastructure
20200509. The next piece of the Gardiner Expressway to be transported into place waits overnight at the fabrication site in the West Don Lands.
20200507. Infrastructure framing infrastructure. Lake Shore Boulevard East by the Keating Channel.
20200503. Toronto Hydro’s Windsor Station was built in 1950, uses equipment past its useful life but puts out a maxed out 300 MW of power for the area west of the downtown core.
20200502. Moving a prefabricated steel girder for the Gardiner’s rehabilitation involves 2 tractors, 2 motorized trailers and 90 wheels.
20200501. The patterned concrete of the enwave Walton Street Steam Plant north facade.
20200426. The stony eastern terminus of the Gardiner Expressway.
20200425. The industrial streamline moderne City of Toronto South District Operations building at 786 Dundas St E.
20200411. Demolition on Elizabeth Street has revealed some fine brutalism at the Enwave Walton Street Steam Plant.
20200317. GO Transit had barren platforms at rush hour on this day when Ontario declared a state of emergency.
20200314. Entering the Green P Parking Garage at 40 York Street.
20200313. Behind the Toronto Hydro-Electric System Windsor Station and its two eras of architecture.
20200222. A barren suburban commuter parkade means the weekend is here.
20200217. An unbearable sight at Union Station.
20200207. Finding beauty at Bathurst Station is as difficult as finding rational people in today’s political climate. Here is an attempt.
20200204. The work going on in the port lands – the Don River mouth naturalization project – is nothing short of terraforming Toronto.
20200130. In the bowels of an institution.
20200125. A shack and 10 legs of a tank.
20200119. Modernist zigzag concrete breeze block walls stylishly hide what is most likely a TTC power substation at Broadview Station.
20200117. The anatomy of a smashed streetlamp.
20200112. Looking up at the Warden Water Tank at 15 Civic Rd in Scarborough’s Golden Mile.
20200110. The front precast concrete wall of the Toronto Hydro Electric Substation at Charles and Jarvis.
20200106. The new GO Transit Bay Concourse at Union Station is starting to take shape and contrasts starkly from the old concourse also shown below.
20200104. Although opened in 1978, Wilson Station’s bus terminal sports convincing modern mid-century design.
20200103. A fish-eye view of a TTC LRT going over the Queen Street East bridge.
