Tag Archives: redevelopment
20200208. The Honest Ed’s redevelopment construction site shows just how big Honest Ed’s was. No wonder I got lost in there all the time.
20200206. Mirvish Village is looking a bit different these days.
20200205. Look for the Golden Arches (1960 slogan)! You deserve a break today (1971 slogan). We do it all for you (1975 slogan) but not at King and Dufferin where the McDonald’s is being demolished for – you guessed it – more condos!
20200204. The work going on in the port lands – the Don River mouth naturalization project – is nothing short of terraforming Toronto.
20200203. Featuring Tonight. Bumping & Grinding and Vice Versa! This is the best place to watch a Leaf game! Filmores Hotel is closing! Bought by Menkes for $31.5 million, it will most likely be demolished.
20200202. Toronto City Council has endorsed replacing the brutalist St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts with a new state-of-the-art cultural and civic hub.
20200121. Goodbye to University of Toronto’s Best (left, 1954) and Banting (right, 1930) Institutes named for the two men that discovered and commercialized insulin in 1922. They will be replaced by the Schwartz Reisman Innovation Centre.
20200108. The construction site at 160 Front St is almost fully excavated underneath the rear face of the remaining heritage facade.
20191229. Behind the facades of 19 Duncan Street, a future mixed-use development, significant progress has been made on excavation.
20191205. The 1948 Victory Soya Mills silos sit silently waiting for development to come to Toronto’s East Bayfront.
20191204. Buildings fall and towers rise. Nobu Residences site in January 2019.
20191027. Behind the 1876 heritage-designated rowhouses on Widmer Street, a 49 storey condo shall rise.
20191021. The Stanley Condominiums have turned Church and Carlton into a high-rise intersection.
20191020. 2 Carlton, a wonderful heritage-listed mid-century modern office tower is on the chopping block for a 73 storey condo tower.
20191015. Behind the facades of Toronto history on Yonge Street.
20191009. Only the north and west facades remain of the 1924 Gerrard Buidling which is a rare example of the Modern Gothic style adapted to a commercial building (Heritage Listed 1994).
20190922. The SQ Condos rise above new TCHC (Toronto Community Housing) townhomes in a “revitalized” Alexandra Park.
20190917. This appears to be token facadism but word has it that the rest of the south wall will return. This image shows the building before and after demolition at 156 Front St W.
20190910. This block of buildings bordered by University, Edward, Centre and Dundas, features art deco, gothic, modernist and international styles but will be replaced with a glass tower with only the end facades remaining.
20190828. The Yonge Street Mission occupied this future site of the YSL Condos at 381 Yonge Street since 1896.
20190823. Facade support structure at future YSL Residences tower development site.
20190813. This modernist and moderne building is about to sprout an office tower.
20190807. Preserving the facades below the future 85-storey YSL Residences condo tower.
20190724. How to turn a building to be demolished into an advertisement for its replacement.
