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20150212. The Shim-Sutcliffe Architects award-winning Sisters of the St. Joseph Residence (East York, Toronto).
This is a hospital / assisted-living centre with impressive green features including integrated solar panels, geothermal heating and cooling, a green roof and permeable pavers in the parking lot to reduce water runoff.
20150211. Below the metal canopy of the Allen Lambert Galleria at Toronto’s Brookfield Place.
20150210. With Global Village Backpackers’ Hostel now closed, what’s next for this 1875 Second Empire building at King and Spadina?
This building was originally the Richardson House. It was built in 1875 but then modified in 1882 and 1890. In 1917 it became the Spadina Hotel where Leonard Cohen and the Rolling Stones played, a Jack Nicholson film was made and Ernest Hemingway stayed. In 1997 it became the Global Village Backpacker’s Hostel. Late last year the owner died and the place was quickly closed up.
20150209. Down the Delta Toronto monochromatic ramp into a colourful parkade.
20150208. New and old contrast vividly in Toronto’s Regent Park during the demolition of its 2nd last modernist tower.
20150207. An unusual aerial view of the CN Tower without its main observation level.
20150206. Toronto’s June Callwood Park sits in a canyon with a sheer condo cliff to the west known as Neptune 2.
20150205. Inside the machine. Atrium on Bay in Toronto.
20150204. Mies van der Rohe’s pavilion at the Toronto Dominion Centre, Toronto II.
20150203. Toronto’s 1933 derelict art deco former incinerator and waste transfer station at 150 Symes in the Stockyards district.
20150202. The curved concrete modernism of Toronto’s TTC Wilson Station waiting area and wind barriers
20150201. University of Toronto’s Tartu College (c.1969) is brutalist but elegant with its thin precast cedar-board-formed concrete exterior walls.
20150131. Viljo Revell’s Toronto City Hall reaches for the sky.
20150129. An old school Leon’s Furniture lights up Toronto’s Danforth Village neighbourhood.
20150128. At 129 metres in height, Toronto’s Leaside Towers in Thorncliffe Park scrape the sky.
20150127. The length of Toronto’s subway stations is made apparent at Warden.
20150126. Toronto’s John Street Roundhouse (c.1929) is home to Toronto Railway Museum, SteamWhistle Brewing and Leons Furniture.
To learn more about the history of the John Street Roundhouse, come to a talk this Saturday: http://ow.ly/HZuho
20150125. A view of many rooms in the 4th Dickinson modernist high-rise demolition in Toronto’s Regent Park.
20150124. Toronto’s new PATH bridge looms above Lower Simcoe St but is dwarfed beneath the CN Tower.
20150123. Pre-cast canadiana concrete close-up under blue sky. Minimal Aesthetic 48.
20150122. Goodbye Guvernment. This complex in Toronto will meet the wrecking ball next week.
The Guvernment will give way to the Daniels Corporation for a commercial/residential community.
20150121. Balconies at Thorncliffe Park’s Rideau 3 apartment high-rise in Toronto make for a compelling optical illusion.
20150120. Shadow versus sunlight at Parkway Place 2 and 3 (1965/66). Thorncliffe Park, Toronto.
20150119. The tower of the modern gothic-art deco Whitney Block sits empty in Toronto.
This is the southern half of an Ontario Government office building situated east of the Ontario Legislature to which it is connected by tunnel. The building was erected in 1925 and the tower in 1932. The tower has sat empty since the late sixties.