Tag Archives: redevelopment
20170201. With the fence up, the Victory Cafe closed, and the 1892 Victorian house retained, the transition of Markham Village has begun.
20170119. The Globe and Mail’s second building, like its first (from where this entranceway comes), will soon be demolished.
20170117. Currently, the Deer Park United Church (1912, Gothic Revival) is open to everyone.
20170116. The 1912 Gothic Revival Deer Park United Church awaits its future condo development with interior exposed (image 2).
20170115. Deer Park United Church is transcept-free. The apse and attached two-floor buildings that obscured the apse have been removed but the remainder will adjoin a new condominium development (image 1).
20170108. The Art Deco Concourse Building at 100 Adelaide St W is back.
20161231. “A bargain centre like this happens once in a lifetime!!!” How true.
20161208. The nearly finished SQ Condominiums in #Toronto’s redeveloping Alexandra Park, contrast strongly but fittingly with the turn of the century mid-rise commercial buildings of Spadina Avenue.
20161205. South and north elevations at dusk of Onespadina, future iconic home of University of Toronto’s John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, as it nears completion.
20161123. Although a significant part of Toronto’s cultural heritage landscape, Honest Ed’s is by no means aesthetically pleasing.
20160930. This block on Yonge Street is to be demolished to make way for the 44-storey Clover on Yonge condominiums.
20160906. Imminent demolition of the St. Lawrence Market North Building may unearth 200 years of history.
20160803. Gutting an Art Deco heritage-designated destructor in the Stockyards District.
20160713. Full-length aerial view of the Ernst & Young Tower and its embedded Concourse Building.
20160705. John B. Parkin’s modernist Celestica (formerly IBM) Offices (1965) face demolition as the Crosstown comes to Don Mills and Eglinton.
20160630. Toronto’s modernist, unprotected Celestica (formerly IBM) Offices (1965) face redevelopment as The Crosstown comes to Don Mills and Eglinton.
20160620. The boiler house (building 38) at Toronto’s old Unilever factory, a site soon to be transformed by First Gulf.
20160415. An impressive Concourse Building facsimile (100 Adelaide St W) has returned to our skyline embedded in the EY Tower, replete with fine Art Deco detailing.
20160312. All that remains of the 1928 Art Deco Loblaws Grocerterias Warehouse (Lakeshore and Bathurst, Toronto).
Don’t worry as they are going to be “re-establisng an original” by saving 100,000 bricks and stonework for the West and South faces with a couple of condo towers behind and an addition on top.
20160301. Waiting for the bus under a massive relic of modernism.
Toronto‘s Sutton Place Hotel was built in 1967 by WZMH Architects. After almost 50 years in service the building is being redeveloped as a condominium tower.
20160228. A stripped 1967 brutalist Sutton Place Hotel shall transform into The Britt Condos.
20160225. Toronto’s 1972 brutalist Grand Hotel may be redeveloped into a 45 storey tower.
ERA Architects conducted the heritage impact statement. In short the building is not heritage-listed, not in a Heritage Conservation District and its height is not out of character with coming development. Amexon Development and CORE Architects Inc are behind the proposal.
20160130. Demolition makes way for the Minto Westside Condos in Toronto.
20160129. The last wall standing against the machines in Toronto’s Regent Park.
