20211201-Merton1. Merton Street an excellent collection of interesting buildings including 170 Merton, the painted brick brutalist brokerage.
Tag Archives: Toronto architecture
20211130. The building beside Fire Station 311, a 1911 Queen Anne Revival building by Robert McCallum and National Historic Site, is an example of contextual architecture with its keystones, fenestration and garage opening inspired by the station.
20211129. The glass bubble entrance at Dupont Station now has an elevator companion.
20211127. At Islington Terrace, there is hardly a sign of anyone living in their high-rise box.
20211126. The funny fenestration at 40 Chicester Place in Scarborough includes a missing window, one taller floor and three different windows.
20211123. The multi-coloured window mid-rise.
20211122. With both the TTC and Miway now operating buses out of Kipling station, the Islington Station bus terminal will soon be redeveloped.
20211121. Where once Wing’s plum sauce packets were made now sits a condo tower with the same name as a type of pizza – Bianca.
20211119. The beauty of coarse aggregate concrete #2.
20211118. The beauty of coarse aggregate concrete.
20211116. From darkness into light … at the parkade.
20211115. With demolition exposing the underground parking garage at the slowly disappearing Valhalla Executive Centre, it is apparent just how much weight the support columns hold up.
20211113. Undergoing restoration, Toronto’s Design Exchange is using the perfect scaffolding cover.
20211102. Wrapped heritage facades along King Street West mark the front of the King Toronto construction site.
20211101. Looking into a big old brick box at the King Toronto Construction site.
20211030. The Well is rising fast.
20211029. The Entertainment District (now the Toronto Downtown West BIA) is construction central with tower cranes active at Nobu Residences Toronto, Maverick, 55 Mercer and 19 Duncan.
20211028. Wellesley Station’s second entrance at 17 Dundonald Street is reconstructed nine feet north of the original building shown here in 2015.
20211027. The Herbert H. Carnegie Centennial Centre (Hockey rink). Architect Irving D. Boigon, 1967. Does anyone know if this arena has always been cladded in aluminum?
20211026. The colourful, playful and award-winning Sharp Centre for Design at OCAD completed by ALSOP Architects in 2004.
20211025. The Village By the Grange is a large scale mixed use project completed in 1980 by the ubiquitous WZMH Architects.
20211024. The north entrance to the understated formal modernism of the Toronto Court House (Marani Morris & Allan, 1966).
20211023. Toronto’s first commercial timber-framed building is in Liberty Village.
20211022. Signs of the new St. Lawrence Market North have finally appeared.
20211017. Boake’s Brutalist Bramalea Building (Crang & Boake, 1971).
