Tag Archives: station
20150612. The Union Pearson Express downtown terminal with bands of oak veneer is warm and inviting.
20150421. A southbound night view of the Eglinton West subway station. Toronto.
20150420. Toronto’s very modern Eglinton West subway station really shines at night.
20150419. Above a dark TTC Eglinton West station flanked on both sides by an empty Allen Rd in Toronto.
20150403. TTC Spadina subway station’s stimulating secondary entrance. Toronto.
20150302. Toronto’s modern, functional, handsome yet understated St. George TTC Subway transformer station (1963).
20150301. The Brutalistic pre-cast concrete lines of Toronto’s TTC Kipling Station electrical substation.
20150213. Pipes and handrails follow stairwell contours in Toronto’s TTC Pape Subway station.
20150202. The curved concrete modernism of Toronto’s TTC Wilson Station waiting area and wind barriers
20150127. The length of Toronto’s subway stations is made apparent at Warden.
20140105. Dirty vent covers and bright barriers in contrasting yellows at Lawrence West station. Minimal Aesthetic 46
20150104. A south view of Toronto’s Lawrence West subway station. Opened in 1978 in the median of Allen Road, it remains impressive.
Dunlop Farrow Aitken Architects.
For a north view of the station, go to http://vikpahwa.com/uncategorized/photo-20121027-lawrence-west-station-and-allen-road-from-one-bridge-south/
20140914. Windows on the world at the Toronto TTC Castle Frank subway station bus platform.
20140719. A line of light and oddly asymmetrical column placement in Cleveland’s Tower City Rapid Transit Station.
20140716. The big T at Cleveland’s “E 34 – Campus” rapid transit station.
20140320. Great architecture outside Dupont subway station at night (Toronto).
20140307. Rosedale subway station in Toronto is a fine example of modernist architecture (c.1954, Architect John B. Parkin).
20140304. The curved glass roof at Toronto’s Yorkdale Subway Station (c.1978, Architect Arthur Erickson).
The station’s glass roof featured a light installation called “Arc en Ciel” by Michael Hayden that stopped working in the mid-1990s. This installation may be restored with LED lighting.
20140302. The demolition of the TTC Yorkdale commuter lot in Toronto has begun making way for more retail space and a new lot.
20140225. TTC’s modernist Old Mill subway station (c.1968) in Toronto.
John Martins-Manteiga’s Mean City documents some of Toronto’s finest post-war era modernist architecture. Although not mentioned in the book, I think that Old Mill station is also a fine specimen of modernism with its half elevated and half underground station design and beautiful views of the Humber River.
20140222. Looking through the glass roof of Queen’s Park subway station’s SW entrance (Toronto).
Queen’s Park subway opened in 1964 and the Ontario Power building in the background was completed in 1976.
Photo 20131209. Sound baffling wall under high-pressure sodium lamp light. Minimal Aesthetic #18.
Photo 20131203. New vs. old subway entrances at TTC’s Queen’s Park station, Toronto.
