20240404. The missing middle is coming back.
Tag Archives: riverdale
20231129. Buildings on the brighter side of Broadview.
20230426. Danforth Music Hall. Hynes Feldman & Watson, 1919.
20230122. Remember the adjoining modernist east wing of the Don Jail? Built 1958, Demolished 2014.
20230102. The Trull Funeral Home has died of redevelopment but will remain thanks to architectural taxidermy.
20221229. An interesting block of buildings no longer on Gerrard St. The middle three have been replaced.
20211009. There’s something very appealing about this view of a quadrilateral tower rising above simple but stylish townhouses.
20210822. Modern August (#22) would not be complete without including the semi-circular Riverdale Hospital (1963), demolished in 2013 to make way for the Bridgepoint Hospital.
20210708. Bridges of July #8. ‘Night Truss’ and ‘Centre Span X’ on the Queen Street Viaduct.
20210126. Remembering the Riverdale Hospital in its 50th year and just as demolition was beginning (July 2013). Chapman & Hurst, 1963.
20200425. The industrial streamline moderne City of Toronto South District Operations building at 786 Dundas St E.
20200103. A fish-eye view of a TTC LRT going over the Queen Street East bridge.
20190731. Putting the size of a GO Train in perspective over the rooftops of Queen Street East.
20181204. The Art Deco Toronto Fire Station 324.
20181024. Bridgepoint Hospital and its shiny response to the sun.
20180926. The mid-century expressionist Holy Eucharist Ukrainian Catholic Church (Rostislav Zuk, 1967) II.
20180731. The longest facade of the modernist Queen Alexandra Middle School (1957) with early brutalist elements.
20180728. Hammering through concrete to replace streetcar tracks at Dundas and Broadview.
20180522. Enjoying the cool covered parkade at the City Adult Learning Centre (formerly Parkview Secondary School). Peter Pennington, 1964.
Inverted scissor switch stairwell.
20180408. Brilliant modern interior design allowing light to penetrate through glass blocks in the walls of the City Adult Learning Centre covered pedestrian bridge. Architect Peter Pennington, 1963.
20180220. The mid-century expressionist Holy Eucharist Ukrainian Catholic Church (Rostislav Zuk, 1967).
20170511. A temporary stairwell with a view soon to be swallowed up by Streetcar Developments’ Riverside Square.
20161104. The Broadview Hotel, once Jilly’s strip club, looks splendid once again.
20160516. A warehouse demolition reveals an appealing steel frame in Toronto’s Riverside neighbourhood.
Demolition of this former concrete warehouse makes way for the large Riverside Square development by Streetcar Developments.