20230119. Doomed trees at the gardens of Osgoode Hall will make way for the Osgoode stop on the future Ontario Line.
Tag Archives: redevelopment
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?
20220507. The new Hill and Dale Residences feature very clear reflections despite having bird-friendly glass.
20220429. The intriguing facade of the soon to open Ace Hotel Toronto by Shim-Sutcliffe Architects.
20220331. Inside a large empty industrial warehouse destined to be demolished to make way for a new and more efficient large industrial warehouse.
With Rehearsal Factory on Front Street closed, finding music rehearsal space in Toronto is harder. The building itself awaits demolition but the front facade will be saved.
20220329. Three of four corners at Front and Parliament currently await redevelopment including the First Parliament site and land needed for building the Ontario Line subway.
20220316. #Rexdale 4. Mounds of dirt stand where a new mall will replace the demolished Sears warehouse in Rexdale. One of the first Contact Photo exhibits I went to featured photos of mounds not unlike these ones. Guess it stuck with me.
20220311. A Ledbury Park modern mid-rise office building awaits demolition. Interesting features include curved brise soleil at the top and a semi-elliptical walkway.
20220304. There is now a new yellow bridge in the Toronto Port Lands where the T&T Supermarket parking lot was. The Don Mouth Naturalization Project continues.
20220227. A shiny and angular condo tower stairwell enclosure at Harris Square.
20220225. So that’s how big the concrete pad for a tower crane is. Jac Condos, 308 Jarvis St, Turner Fleischer Architects Inc.
20220124. The Columbus Centre with its “over-scaled curving corrugated cornice” and “long arched window openings with an italiante quality.”
20220121. The new Aquabella at Bayside features striping on the ground floor facade and balcony walls.
20211127. At Islington Terrace, there is hardly a sign of anyone living in their high-rise box.
20211122. With both the TTC and Miway now operating buses out of Kipling station, the Islington Station bus terminal will soon be redeveloped.
