Tag Archives: infrastructure
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.
20200102. Above the stairwell at St. Clair Station.
20191212. Bent (engineering): a traverse framework to carry lateral as well as vertical loads such as the demolished Bay off-ramp from the Gardiner Expressway that this one carried. Can we please save at least one?
20191210. When you step back and look at Wellesley Station, it’s apparent that design was irrelevant even though this building is a subway station, bus terminal, apartment building’s amenity mezzanine and parking garage.
20191209. A shower of sparks means workers are preparing to remove a section of decking on the Gardiner Expressway – part of its strategic rehabilitation from Jarvis to Cherry St (see https://bit.ly/37z0TYu).
20191207. Constructing a Storm Water Quality Facility (SWQF) at Lake Shore Blvd and Cherry St to treat urban run-off from new West Don Lands development.
20191127. The Gardiner Expressway strategic rehabilitation from Jarvis to Cherry Street (https://bit.ly/37z0TYu) continues. Here, the new Sherbourne St off-ramp decking is in place and a worker prepares a support bent for a new panel.
20191124. A fabricated section of replacement decking for the Gardiner Expressway waits at the fabrication site to be put into place. This is part of the strategic rehabilitation of the elevated highway from Jarvis to Cherry Street.See https://bit.ly/37z0TYu for more information.
20191123. A natural gas pipeline runs through it. Highland Creek.
20191121. The shortest of six bents, a temporary legacy to the bay street off-ramp, is the only one catching the setting sun.
20191120. The large tent structures at the east end of the fabrication site where sections of replacement decking are being built for the Gardiner Expressway strategic rehabilitation from Jarvis to Cherry Street.
20191115. The ramp that was.
20191023. Under the recently rehabilitated Morningside Avenue bridge over Highland Creek.
20191022. The centre X spans on the Queen Street Viaduct (reminiscent of yesterday’s federal election).
20191013. The Guildwood Station upgrade includes fancy lighting leading you into the pedestrian tunnels.
20191008. The south-side ramp from the now open Garrison Crossing which connects Fort York, the former Ordnance Triangle and Stanley Park.
20191007. The south-side ramp from the now open Garrison Crossing which includes two bridge structures spanning two rail corridors.
20191006. A GO train heading to Union Station emerges from the Strachan Ave below-grade rail corridor just after sunset.
