20230607. Four sides of facadism. In this case, the street-facing facade and half the east and west facades have been saved at the east building of the former Ontario Design Centre.
Tag Archives: redevelopment
20230601. The lines of T3 Bayside on the Eastern Bayfront (Toronto’s tallest timber-framed building).
20230531. Notice. A change is proposed for this site. I love 888 Dupont and wish it could stay despite the replacement condo tower having a decent design.
20230529. Demolition of the Shuter Wing at St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Canada has begun. It will be replaced with a new structure and include an expanded emergency department.
20230517. I remember a time when you could see sky on Widmer Street.
20230515. Notice. A change is proposed for this site – featuring a spectacular mid-century modern office building that’s not on the heritage register at 505 University (Shell Oil Building, Marani and Morris, 1958). The building will be demolished, rebuilt with 7 fewer floors and 50 more storeys on top.
20230502. Securing the facadism of the future at 8 Elm Street where a condo tower will rise a mere 69 storeys. IBI Group and GBCA Architects.
20230425. A hollowed not hallowed church.
20230409. A change is proposed for this site. What else is new? Oh and happy Easter Sunday!
20230327. Demolition often reveals facades long hidden from view – like here at what is left of the Ontario Design Centre and future home of 800 more condo units.
20230308. After being dismantled, the building that was home to the Tom Jones Steak House is back with more windows.
20230217. This McDonald’s at Queen and Church can be rather sketchy at times but I would rather it stay than the 60 (sixty!) storey skyscraper coming. All facades but that of the McDonald’s building will be retained. Apart from that condo to the left all buildings are low-rise on this block.
20230201. The missing middle. The buildings demolished (Queen and Mutual), from 1874-1893, were constructed of wood and assessed as not heritage-worthy and will be replaced by another condo tower. An area that was mostly low-rise has been revitalized into a high-rise hood.
20230131. McVeigh’s, the last building on the block. 124 Church St was the Windsor Hotel when built in 1882. Now there are plans to pop 2 floors on top and turn it back into a hotel AND put a 45-storey condo tower behind it. Images of the hotel in 1972 and 1913 included.
20230119. Doomed trees at the gardens of Osgoode Hall will make way for the Osgoode stop on the future Ontario Line.
20220107. A diamond in the facade of 488 University Avenue.
20230102. The Trull Funeral Home has died of redevelopment but will remain thanks to architectural taxidermy.
20221212. What lies beneath the white brick facade of the old shoe factory at 90 Ontario Street, Moss Park, Toronto.
20221010. When a gas station becomes a presentation centre for a new condo development – in this case Centricity Condos (Graywood Developments, Turner Fleischer Architects).
20220922. This impressive 1974 John B Parkin concrete office tower will be demolished for a 62-storey @WZMHarchitects mixed use tower. It sits north of 488 University, another WZMH building whose concrete facade was lost.
20220921. The mid-rise Maclean Hunter building facade seems secured for the construction of the 55 storey United Building at University and Dundas.
20220917. The stunning new Ace Hotel Toronto by Shim-Sutcliffe Architects.
20220526. Remember those fine art deco doors at the Globe and Mail’s second building that were preserved from its first building?
20220515. Where once was whatever it was and the Bauhaus Condos will be.
20220509. 1140 Yonge Street – mostly destroyed by public broadcasting but soon to be rebuilt thanks to a luxury condo tower?
