Tag Archives: redevelopment
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.
20180718. The fully-exposed 1872 Fire Hall #3 clock tower and support-framed facadism highlight these now unrecognizable blocks northwest of Yonge and College.
20180710. Construction-hoarding-obscured borehole drilling machines.
20180525. A sectional reflection of Toronto’s ephemeral Southcore skyline.
Bloor Collegiate Institute (1948), with its “moderne style that was quite adventurous for Toronto and very well-executed” (Alex Bozikovic, Globe And Mail, Apr 5, 2018) faces demolition due to uncreative redevelopment.
20180401. Say goodbye to these white facades on Dufferin north of Queen as they get torn down for a trio of generic mid-rise condos. A sentimental second take.
20180331. Say goodbye to the white facade strip on Dufferin north of Queen as it gets torn down for a trio of generic mid-rise condos.
The modernist Cummer Avenue United Church may soon be surrounded by condominium towers. Reference No. 11 287471 NNY 24 OZ and 11 287481 NNY 24 SB.
20180219. Pearl St will soon transform from a street to skyscrapers to a street of skyscrapers.
Strange architectural bedfellows – colossal and contemporary contrasting with modest, modernist and moderne – until the older building sprouts its own office tower.
20180130. This fine specimen of 1878 industrial architecture at 15 Mercer St., built by Langley, Langley & Burke as stables for Verral Cab, Omnibus and Baggage Transfer Co., shall play facade for the 45-storey twin tower Nobu Residences, a condo, hotel, dining complex owned by Nobu Hospitality, a chain founded partly by Robert DeNiro.
