20240203. The future Don Mouth riverbed lined with armour stone (facing north from the Commissioner’s Street bridge).
Tag Archives: revitalization
20240131. The Canada Malt Co. (wasn’t it Canada Malting Co.?) silos are looking pretty good these days (J.S. Metcalf, 1928).
20231213. What a difference paint, new windows and new balconies make at brutalist Centrepoint East.
20211013. Uno Prii’s 666 Spadina looks new again.
20210928. The Wiltshire Transformer Station (Edwardian Classical) is looking great after $22 Million in upgrades.
20210304. Uno Prii’s 1972 666 Spadina Ave is looking spiffy after its recent revitalization.
20201027. Dreaming in the Financial District (Jaume Plensa, Richmond-Adelaide Centre, 2020).
20201019. Alexandra Park’s new box and no gable townhouses contrast nicely with the old bay and gable rowhouses.
20201009. Geometrically, the Manulife Centre’s new glass skirt seems to work with the brutalist tower but its most interesting feature now lies hidden.
20201001. Revitalizing the 1972 high-rise at Edgeley Village Driftwood, Toronto Community Housing at 415 Driftwood Ave in Jane and Finch.
20200927. Revitalizing the Riverside Residences requires recladding.
20200106. The new GO Transit Bay Concourse at Union Station is starting to take shape and contrasts starkly from the old concourse also shown below.
20190922. The SQ Condos rise above new TCHC (Toronto Community Housing) townhomes in a “revitalized” Alexandra Park.
20190809. The Fairmont Royal York Hotel through Union Station’s glass covered TD Carriageway.
20190719. The Union Station revitalization continues to progress with the opening of this pedestrian tunnel along Front Street.
20190717. The Union Station revitalization continues to progress with the opening of this glass covered walkway along Front Street known as the TD Carriageway.
20190716. Herding the humans through the construction at Union Station.
20181003. The Park Hyatt Hotel revitalization project is underway converting this 1929 tower to luxury rental units.
20181001. Head down to the Manulife Centre to see how to mess up a Brutalist masterpiece. The images below show the building before and during the so-called revitalization.
20180913. The temporary tunnel between the Eaton Centre and Ryerson’s School of Management.
20180618. The Three Watchmen stand tall in the newly renovated College Park atrium.
20170615. A look back at the 2015 demolition of a modernist Peter Dickinson Regent Park tower in the park.
20161208. The nearly finished SQ Condominiums in #Toronto’s redeveloping Alexandra Park, contrast strongly but fittingly with the turn of the century mid-rise commercial buildings of Spadina Avenue.
20161206. The redesigned Berczy Park, with its granite pavers in diamond shapes, is open and almost complete in Toronto’s St. Lawrence Market neighbourhood.
20160804. Following a major renovation, Yorkville’s Hazelton Lanes shopping mall is now called Yorkville Village.
Top: after renovation. Below: before renovation.
