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20150119. The tower of the modern gothic-art deco Whitney Block sits empty in Toronto.
This is the southern half of an Ontario Government office building situated east of the Ontario Legislature to which it is connected by tunnel. The building was erected in 1925 and the tower in 1932. The tower has sat empty since the late sixties.
20140118. The abandoned open pit mine in Marmora, Ontario is so vast and deep that it is classified as a lake.
In the two years since my last visit, the water level in the open pit has filled in noticeably (probably at 400 ft deep now). All the ore processing equipment, tanks and ancient excavator have been removed. The hole covers 85 acres, is 1700 feet long, 1100 feet wide and 600 feet deep.
20141226. The world’s highest hydraulic lift lock resides in Peterborough, Ontario on the Trent-Severn Waterway.
The Peterborough Lift Lock lifts ships 19.8 metres (max 30.5 m long, max 7.3 m wide, max 99,000 kg). The 386 km waterway (with 45 locks and 39 swing bridges and 20 km of man-made channels), is a Canadian National Historic Site and takes 5-7 days to traverse. Construction begain in 1833 and by 1920 a ship could travel from Lake Ontario to Lake Huron. At the time it was built, it was the largest un-reinforced concrete structure on Earth.
20141223. The Glanmore House (c.1883) in Belleville, Ontario is a fine example of Second Empire architecture and a National Historic Site.
20141221. Belleville’s (Ontario, Canada) beautiful late Victorian Gothic city hall (c.1873) and first heritage asset.
20141213. The Hamilton GO Centre (c.1933) is possibly the only example of Art Deco station architecture in Canada.
20141116. The Toronto west-facing skyline – still dominated by the CN Tower but more crowded and greener than ever.
20140905. The Ontario Government is closing its LCBO head office, warehouse and store downtown and selling the 11 acres of land.
Prospective buyers are expected to work with a future heritage designation for the office building on the left and to provide the LCBO with a new head office and retail store downtown.
20140829. The post-modern, strangely intriguing McMurtry-Scott Building, home of the Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General.
20140426. The Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General’s Brutalist Milton Courthouse.
