20220526. Remember those fine art deco doors at the Globe and Mail’s second building that were preserved from its first building?
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20200224. A broader view of the John Street Roundhouse, a national historic site.
20200204. The work going on in the port lands – the Don River mouth naturalization project – is nothing short of terraforming Toronto.
20200203. Featuring Tonight. Bumping & Grinding and Vice Versa! This is the best place to watch a Leaf game! Filmores Hotel is closing! Bought by Menkes for $31.5 million, it will most likely be demolished.
20191218. The partial 1870 Andrew McFarren Building at 237 Queen St E. once extended along Queen St to Sherbourne St to the right but was truncated for a bank branch that no longer exists.
20191109. Looking down on the John Street Roundhouse.
20191105. Richmond St W at Tecumseth St has probably looked the same for well over 50 years.
20190918. The 1877 Italianate Richard Purdom House (207 McCaul St) named for the architect who commissioned the residence.
20190225. The 1913 Marks and Cohen Building, a commercial block in Little Italy.
20190115. The Ernest Smith Store and the F.W. Hutt Store in 1889 Parkdale.
20180927. The massive block-long building of the Toronto Carpet Manufacturing Company (1899. addition 1925).
20180814. Lambton House and its highrise backdrop.
20180112.The two ends of a roundhouse.
20180108. The non-existent Honest Ed Alley.
20180106. Swansea Public School is an amalgamation of building additions including enlargements in 1928, 1953, 1985 and 2016.
20171213. Facing bay 17 on the John Street Roundhouse turntable.
20170823. The Executive Offices facade of the Queen Elizabeth Building with its folded-plate concrete roof.
20170710. The 1910 S.F. Bowser and Company Factory, producer of oil tanks, has Edwardian Classical features including a flat roof, less ornate corbelled brickwork and piers, and flat-headed windows (39 Mowat Avenue).
20170707. The quintessentially modern entrance at the Queen Elizabeth building.
The long buildings of Mowat Avenue in Liberty Village.
Billboards and industrial built heritage in Liberty Village.
20170304. Up, underneath the Princes’ Gates celebrating 60 years of Confederation. Chapman & Oxley, Beaux Arts, 1927.
20170210. The cute rowhouses of Belmont Street, renovated in 1962 by Joan Burt, the only woman in Ontario at the time with an architectural practice actively working as an architect.
20170119. The Globe and Mail’s second building, like its first (from where this entranceway comes), will soon be demolished.
20161231. “A bargain centre like this happens once in a lifetime!!!” How true.
