Tag Archives: infrastructure
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.
20200516. The West Don Lands are starting to change as the Gardiner Expressway is rehabilitated – rail is being removed, brush has been cleared and old businesses are gone.
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.
