
Tag Archives: redevelopment
20190713. The decommissioned and soon-to-be-demolished McLaughlin Planetarium dome.

20190710. Fancy Brick Wall.

20190621. The Ordnance Triangle has lost its two tall billboards and gained a few new condo buildings.

20190620. The Loblaw Groceterias Warehouse is back again in a shroud.

20190619. A change has been proposed for this site. A Development Application has been submitted to amend the Official Plan and Zoning By-law to allow a residential stacked townhouse development.

20190616. The Well, a massive, mixed use project on former Globe and Mail property (featuring seven condo towers) progresses rapidly on the largest construction site in Toronto. #redevelopment #fashiondistrict @Tridel @alliedproperties @HaririPontarini @_archAlliance_

20190530. An abandoned mid-century strip mall in Victoria Village awaits demolition to make way for the Vic Towns North Park stacked townhouse development that boasts being 10 minutes away from the future Eglinton Crosstown LRT.


20190524. Behind the facades of 19 Duncan Street, a future mixed-use development featuring a 58 storey condo tower.

20190518. The doomed buildings of Commerce Court.

20190407. Demolition reveals glass covered long ago between Yonge St and O’Keefe Lane south of Gerrard. This is the site of the future 85-storey YSL Residences condo tower.

The condominium behind this lovely 1891 Gothic Revival building is a bad example of contextual architecture – a principle of design in which a structure is designed with reference to its surroundings.

20190319. A six-storey community housing building awaits demolition in Regent Park’s Block 1, for Phase 3 of development.

20190318. A 46 storey office tower will replace this 1905 commercial building at 156 Front St W. The front facade of the old building will be dismantled and reconstructed.

20190306. Another parking garage and a great place for elevated views bites the dust. Yorkville between Bay, Yonge, Yorkville and Cumberland.

20190222. The Valhalla Executive Centre at 300 The East Mall, with its tallest building vacant, awaits a mixed use redevelopment with 1100 units in four condo towers.


20190206. Storefronts have turned into facades to make way for a glass office tower on King Street east of Yonge.

20190127. Church St and The Esplanade is the site of yet another new condominium called “75 on The Esplanade.”

20190125. Demolishing the former Bank of Montreal Service Centre at 234 Simcoe St to make way for three condominium towers called Artists’ Alley.

20190124. A steel support structure secures the north and west facades of the 1908 Southam Press Building at 19 Duncan Street.

20181221. Demolition follows the securing of former storefronts in the process of facadism. The original storefronts are in the second image below.

20180824. The west half of the Yorkville Condominiums that will flank Allen Rd and launch the development of a new master-planned Lawrence Heights, replacing the old master-planned Lawrence Heights.

20180819. From fortune cookie factory and typesetters to pizza (Bianca) condos.

20180806. Storefronts will turn into facades under a glass office tower on King Street east of Yonge.

20180725. An 1864 Italianate facade in the firm brace of Laurie McCulloch.
