20220507. The new Hill and Dale Residences feature very clear reflections despite having bird-friendly glass.
Tag Archives: redevelopment
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.
20211121. Where once Wing’s plum sauce packets were made now sits a condo tower with the same name as a type of pizza – Bianca.
20211115. With demolition exposing the underground parking garage at the slowly disappearing Valhalla Executive Centre, it is apparent just how much weight the support columns hold up.
20211110. Demolition Dissection at the Valhalla Executive Centre.
20211109. Demolition Cross Section at the Valhalla Executive Centre.
20211103. Something’s afoot at the patched up and twice fire damaged heritage property at 422-424 Wellington Street West.
20211014. The new Davisville Junior Public School is a far cry from the original. Frankly speaking, the only positive thing I can say about this new school is that it is new.
20211012. The Symes Incinerator Sure Has Changed Over The Last seven Years (Image seT 2 of 2) (2021 Vs 2014).
20211007. Just like that, the Gardiner Expressway east end ramps are gone!
20210929. The Valhalla Executive Centre at 300 The East Mall seems aptly named as it is demolished.
20210921. One tiny tree in a garden of glass.
20210919. Redevelopment of the Toronto Port Lands into the Lower Don Lands has come a long way. Here we see the bed of the extended Don River.
