20250101. Old Regent Park vs. new Regent Park.
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20241119. Catching a glimpse of the CN Tower between the Distillery and Canary districts.
20241116. This house and the one next door, at Eglinton and Bayview, are to be replaced by a 120 metre high residential rental condo tower that will rise above the Leaside Crosstown station.
20241114. 477 Mount Pleasant Road (Crang & Boake, 1960), a mid-century modern office building slated for redevelopment.
20241113. 477 Mount Pleasant Road (Crang & Boake, 1960), a mid-century modern office building slated for redevelopment (2 photos). Tomorrow will feature 3 more photos.
20241109. Working on the plug between the existing Don River and the new Don River mouth.
20241105. Painting the 300-ton heritage-designated Atlas Crane in Promontory Park in the Port Lands.
20241102. Mural just west of Church and Shuter.
20241017. Looking up at the Leaside Towers.
20241016. A mosquelisk, two transmission towers and six traffic channelizers.
20241013. How to build a bridge III. With the steel cylinder (previous photo) sitting over the cylindrical-shaped rebar (2 photos ago), you now pour the concrete in and let it set. Repeat the process, and you have 7 columns to support your bridge as illustrated here at Dundas near Carlaw.
20241006. Bye Banting.
20240904. New Temporary Exhibition GO Pedestrian Bridge.
20240807. Glencairn Station III. A TTC operator booth in camouflage.
20240801. Behind the facade at Queen and Church, home of the future QueenChurch condos.
20240731. King and Bathurst sure looks different.
20240729. The original vitrolite tiles at Osgoode station are showing once again.
20240728. Porte Cochère XI. I have many more porte cochere images but this is the last one in this series. The substantial 311 Dixon Road.
20240726. Porte Cochère IX. Space Age 65 Forest Manor Road. From the book “Remnants of Mid-Century Toronto” by Spacing and me.
Porte Cochère VIII. 150 Cosburn Ave is an example of Flintstone modernism.
20240724. Porte Cochère VII. Orange 20 Gamble Ave. 3rd building of 3, each with a different canopy.
20240723. Porte Cochère VI. Angular 72 Gamble Ave. 2nd building of 3, each with a different canopy.
20240722. Porte Cochère V. Undulating 100 Gamble Ave.
20240721. Porte Cochère IV. 130 Gowan Ave.
20240622. The way the IMMIX rental building handles Fire Hall #3 and its clock tower (1872) strikes me as overly busy with patterned balconies and discordant materials at ground level but I do like the quality of restoration by ERA Architects, the glass facade of the long gone hall and the way the clock face is against a more subtle background.
