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.
Tag Archives: redevelopment
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.
20210916. That iconic view of the Gardiner Expressway is changing rapidly.
20210908. The interiors of the former IBM offices (John B, Parkin Associatiates, 1965) have been stripped but the facades will remain under the Crosstown III tower.
20210907. Lake Shore Blvd East and the Don Roadway looks much brighter now as demolition of the Gardiner Expressway east end ramps moves quickly.
20210903. Looking up at 325 Front, a view on for a limited time. Minimal Aesthetic #155.
20210902. Toronto Today #2. An elevated and window-framed view of the quickly rising 160 Front West 46-storey office tower under construction.
20210901. Toronto Today #1. The Gardiner Expressway east end ramps are now closed permanently as the city prepares to demolish the section east of the Don Valley Parkway on-ramps.
20210831. Modern August #31. Many of Toronto’s finest mid-century modern buildings face the same risk as this now demolished strip mall in Victoria Village.
20210826. Modern August #26. Seeya Celestica as you make way for the Crosstown Community.
20210817. Modern August #17. A doomed mid-20th Century mall.
20210806. Modern August #6. Toronto’s modern Celestica (formerly IBM) Offices (1965) shall soon sprout buildings as high as 130 metres as the Crosstown comes to Don Mills and Eglinton.
20210528. 4D or not 4D. That is the question. The unique concrete shade structures appear around the top and south sides of all windows for ‘heavy’ shade. Also interesting is how the entrances respond to the slope of the ground with more steps, a longer handrail and a thicker concrete pad.
20210527. Campbell’s has left New Toronto due to their overproduction of soup. A distribution centre is moving in.
20210430. Before and after the transformation at College and Huron. Apart from podium colour and shape, the new structure looks little like the original.
20210324. The CAMH Queen Street campus redevelopment project includes the demolition of all four brutalist Active Care Unit buildings on site (Unit 2 demolition underway).
