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20141125. Billboards as big as buildings: Gotham versus Atrium on Bay.
20141122. Reflections in the Aga Khan Museum’s courtyard.
20141121. A 1940s 40’x100’ Quonset Hut on Canvarco Rd in the Leaside neighbourhood is a wartime remnant of Toronto’s military past.
From Wikipedia: “A Quonset hut is a lightweight prefabricated structure of corrugated galvanized steel having a semicircular cross-section. The design was based on the Nissen hut developed by the British during World War I. Hundreds of thousands were produced during World War II and military surplus was sold to the public, making “Quonset hut” a household word.”
20141120. Toronto’s beautiful Art Deco apartments at 1477 Bayview (c.1941). Despite being heritage listed, they face development pressure.
This Garden Court Apartment complex has 10 buildings beautifully arranged around an interior court. It is one of the nicest places in Toronto and will be featured on this Saturdays Urban Exploration Walk.
There is a development proposal sign in front but a more recent city report recommends refusing the proposal and corresponding zoning plan amendment. The proposal called for the demolition of the complex to make way for, you guessed it, more condominiums.
20141119. The intriguing St. Mary’s Cement building in Leaside, Toronto was originally 2 storeys when built in 1976.
20141116. The Toronto west-facing skyline – still dominated by the CN Tower but more crowded and greener than ever.
20141115.The Telus Laird Data Centre north elevation at dusk (Leaside, Toronto) – concrete-free post modern brutalism?
20141114. A bi-level rear view of the Nathan Phillips Square Skate Pavilion and Food Concession Building in Toronto (Architect Perkins + Will).
20141113. This strange, small facade conceals a much larger building that pre-dates the road (1947 Dundas W, Toronto).
20141112. The 1984-heritage-listed art deco Mayfair Mansions in South Hill, Toronto (Architect HC Roberts, c.1931).
20141111. The entrance to Bloor Station on Toronto’s future downtown-to-airport express train is taking shape.
20141109. The 1913 neo-gothic terra-cotta-clad 299 Queen St W, Toronto.
20141107. The tall, narrow and not-so-blue CrystalBlu condos (21 Balmuto) offer a clear view down Toronto’s Hayden Street.
20141105. Living the high-life in mixed-income Regent Park (Paintbox Condos left; 252 Sackville Toronto Community Housing right).
20141101. The curves of Toronto’s Union Station streetcar platform are a familiar sight once again.
20141030. The empty, decaying yet classical modernist Duke of York public school (c.1958) in Toronto’s Regent Park.
The property on which this former Toronto District School Board school sits has been purchased by the Toronto Catholic District School Board. Due to its bad state of repair, it will most likely be demolished.
20141027. Soon to be the last of 5 1958 modernist high-rises in Toronto’s Regent Park, will this empty building’s heritage status save it?
20141026. Circular patterns emerge in sunlight at Toronto’s TIFF Bell Lightbox building (KPMB Architects, 2010). What causes them?
20141024. Looking down the rear of the Trader’s Bank Building in Toronto (67 Yonge St, Architects Carrère and Hastings, c.1906).
20141022. The Sun Life Financial building at One York rises east of the 10 York Condo pit in Toronto.
20141020. Brutalism, flowers and concrete islands at University of Toronto’s Medical Sciences Building.
20141015. Concrete wall meets metal fence and void. Minimal Aesthetic 44.
20141014. From this height and viewpoint the CN Tower dwarfs every other building.
20141013. Looking NW across Toronto. Beyond the modern residential towers lies the CIBC tower at Yonge and Bloor.
