20241217. Little House on the Corner
Tag Archives: redevelopment
20241212. At Richmond and Peter.
20241119. Catching a glimpse of the CN Tower between the Distillery and Canary districts.
20241114. 477 Mount Pleasant Road (Crang & Boake, 1960), a mid-century modern office building slated for redevelopment.
20241009. Waiting to be incorporated north of Hooker Harvey’s.
20241006. Bye Banting.
20240930. The new Mirvish Village with its Bloor Street facade looking like six different buildings. Are you a fan of such facadism?
20240801. Behind the facade at Queen and Church, home of the future QueenChurch condos.
20240622. The way the IMMIX rental building handles Fire Hall #3 and its clock tower (1872) strikes me as overly busy with patterned balconies and discordant materials at ground level but I do like the quality of restoration by ERA Architects, the glass facade of the long gone hall and the way the clock face is against a more subtle background.
20240604. Demolition of the second-last old (around 1947) mid-rise apartment building in Regent Park continues. The CN Tower series will return shortly.
20240506. After removing the paint at the old Palace Arms (second image), the masonry was found in very poor condition. So, instead of saving the facades, they will be replicated using salvaged materials where possible resulting in commemoration not conservation.
20240505. All that sky on the Danforth means a redevelopment is happening. Here comes Pape Station on the Ontario Line.
20240503. March of the Condominiums V.
20240502. Public art at Yonge and St. Clair (Phlegm, 2016) on the Padulo building (Sigmund D. F. Reszetnik, 1968). We will lose the mural when this building is widened and 37 storeys are added on top.
20240501. LCBO head office facade II.
20240430. The Dufferin Street Presbyterian Church (William R. Gregg, Neo Gothic, 1912) – from on fire in 2014 to completed condo conversion called the Hallam Towns in 2024.
20240429. LCBO head office facade.
20240428. The future location of King-Bathurst station on the @ontarioline is behind the south facade of the Canada Biscuit Company (A.R. Denison, 1900) I am hoping more of the west facade is retained than pictured here.
20240422. The Daily Food Mart at 8 Pailton is an interesting building with a front facade following the road and a built-in wall. It will be replaced by a parkette north of a new condo to be built at 214 Merton.
20240421. The moving heritage bank building wall.
20240415. Left – Langston House, 771-773 Yonge St, 1883. Right – Albert Britnell Book Shop, 765 Yonge St, RB McGiffen, 1928. Soon to be – Adagio. Do people actually reference the condo they live in? “Oh, I live at ‘Adagio'”.
20240411. We can finally start to see what lies beneath the ugly yellow metal cladding at 60 Queen St, a 1901 red brick building with mansard roof and corner turret.
20240410. I’m not sure I get the pinkish part of this new condominium tower.
20240404. The missing middle is coming back.
20240229. To me, the XO Condos (really?) wrapped around the Bank of British North America at King and Dufferin reminds me of clothes that just don’t match or a Christmas sweater.
