20240419. Campbell Block at Dundas and Keele. James Augustus Ellis, 1888.
Tag Archives: restoration
20240416. University of Toronto St. George Campus Exam Centre, formerly Toronto Board of Education Supply Building. CE Cyril Dyson, 1931.
20240411. We can finally start to see what lies beneath the ugly yellow metal cladding at 60 Queen St, a 1901 red brick building with mansard roof and corner turret.
20240225. 2 Queen Street West – the 1896 Philip Jamieson Building – is looking a lot nicer than when it was a Coast Mountain Sports store with most of the building hidden behind bland grey cladding.
20240131. The Canada Malt Co. (wasn’t it Canada Malting Co.?) silos are looking pretty good these days (J.S. Metcalf, 1928).
20230120. The newly restored heritage row at Yonge and Yorkville includes buildings from 1870 and Frogley’s bakery from 1887.
20220909. As part of the Signalling and Train Contril improvement program for the Union Station Rail Corridor, this signal tower has been restored and obscured by a new south facing wall.
20211113. Undergoing restoration, Toronto’s Design Exchange is using the perfect scaffolding cover.
20210204. The Government of Ontario’s Whitney Block is wearing a scaffolding and tarp dress.
20191208. Removing stucco at College Park reveals the original brickwork and window openings filled with cement blocks.
20180711. An 1885 cartage building turned coffee patio facade.
20170509. Under Union Station’s restored west wing skylight.
20170425. It’s time to re-imagine the derelict Wellington Destructor.
20170416. Benjamin Brown’s Hermant Building east tower after restoration by ERA Architects.
20170110. Facades of Victorian houses on Glen Road in North St. James Town have been restored from dereliction (http://goo.gl/2NZhAf) as part of a Lanterra Developments’ project.
20160715. A bird’s eye view of tiny men painting Toronto’s TD Centre.
20160427. Taking a Quantum Coffee leap at the Brainstation below.
20160312. All that remains of the 1928 Art Deco Loblaws Grocerterias Warehouse (Lakeshore and Bathurst, Toronto).
Don’t worry as they are going to be “re-establisng an original” by saving 100,000 bricks and stonework for the West and South faces with a couple of condo towers behind and an addition on top.
20150714. Undergoing restoration, Toronto’s Design Exchange is using the perfect scaffolding cover.
