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20140109. The unusual cuboid townhouses of 30-36 Tobermory Drive (near Jane and Finch, Toronto).
20140108. The San Romanoway Apartments at Jane and Finch (Toronto). 3 buildings, 3 views.
20140107. 77 Wellesley St, Toronto is considered Gothic Revival by some. Built 1926, remodelled 1982.
20140104. Canada Bread’s loading dock has seen its last shipment. Liberty Village, Toronto.
20140103. Untouched snow can still be found in Toronto.
20140102. Masonic Temple Pipe. Minimal Aesthetic #20.
Photo 20131231. Toronto’s largest Masonic Temple (c.1916, Architect J.W. Sparling) at 888 Yonge.
Photo 20131230. Royal York Hotel’s spiral stairwell and clock, Toronto. Elegant or tacky?
Photo 20131227. The longest hallway in Toronto, perhaps?
Photo 20131226. The Joseph Shepard Federal Building (4900 Yonge, Toronto, Macy DuBois Architect, 1977).
Photo 20131225. “Going down or up the escalators at the Sheraton hotel in Toronto” #2.
Photo 20131215. A vertigo-inducing view of a Beaux Arts building below (Commerce Court North Tower, Toronto).
Photo 20131210. Mt. Sinai is such a brutalist hospital (Toronto).
Photo 20131209. Sound baffling wall under high-pressure sodium lamp light. Minimal Aesthetic #18.
Photo 20131203. New vs. old subway entrances at TTC’s Queen’s Park station, Toronto.
Photo 20131202. Two skies framed by a glass podium and its towers.
Photo 20131129. This exposed lattice work at Hazelton Lanes (c.1976) will soon be a memory.
See the potential new design at http://www.retail-insider.com/2013/08/hazelton-lanes-to-renovate-for-luxury.html.
Photo 20131128. The 101-year-old Dufferin Street bridge in Toronto will be demolished this weekend.
The bridge has been deemed structurally unsafe and is not viable for repair. Temporary bridges will be erected until 2016 when it will be fully rebuilt. Will we lose the stairs that serviced the old Parkdale eastbound platform too?
Photo 20131124. Pipes and posts. Minimal aesthetic #17.
Photo 20131120. A full, vivid CN Tower shadow falls across the core.
Photo 20111116. Below, people wait for the streetcar in front of the now sold Honest Ed’s in Toronto.
Photo 20131112. This 6-story-sized X marks the spot of the future Queen Richmond Centre West in Toronto.
For a rendering of the building, go to http://www.qrcwest.com/en_building.htm.
Photo 20131106. The Pillars of Ontario Power.
Photo 20131105. A water channel snakes through a zinc-clad pavilion (Sherbourne Common, Toronto).
“Sherbourne Common is the first park in Canada to integrate an ultraviolet (UV) facility for neighbourhood-wide stormwater treatment into its design” – from the Waterfront Toronto website.
