20230122. Remember the adjoining modernist east wing of the Don Jail? Built 1958, Demolished 2014.
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20220121. RED! This is not an abandoned garage and gas station but a tv series set. Eastern Ave, South Riverdale, from 2014.
20230120. The newly restored heritage row at Yonge and Yorkville includes buildings from 1870 and Frogley’s bakery from 1887.
20230119. The entrance to 33 Bloor and the Bloor-Yonge subway station.
20230119. Doomed trees at the gardens of Osgoode Hall will make way for the Osgoode stop on the future Ontario Line.
20230118. The cute but soon to be replaced Beth Joseph Lubavitch modernist synagogue. Armour Heights, North York.
20230117. Jarvis and Wellesley features two buildings with brutalist elements – one modern (1971) one postmodern (1992).
“Toronto Club is an oasis of understated elegance, refinement, good manners, civility and decorum. The club is known for its excellent food and wine, and its highly professional service provided by its stable, well-trained and dedicated long-term employees.” Darling+Curry, 1888.
20230115. Underpass.
20230111. Looking up at the tallest building in the Commonwealth upon completion in 1931 – Commerce Court North.
20230109. The half house with the crow-stepped gable.
20230108. A postmodern box grappling with assorted bits of infrastructure – poles, power lines, traffic/signal/street/night lights, signal box, walk button pole, conduits, bike post/rack, bollards, guy-wires, street signs and a pair of FDCs.
20220107. A diamond in the facade of 488 University Avenue.
20230106. An alley aerial.
20220105. Shall we just call this Chinatown storefront a postmodern facade?
20230103. Twice the PATH Overpass.
20230101. Funky fins and fenestration at Irving Tissue Corporation who make hoarding toilet paper possible.
20221229. An interesting block of buildings no longer on Gerrard St. The middle three have been replaced.
20221217. A long view of the TTC’s most outdoor station Rosedale (John B. Parkin, 1950). From 2011.
20221216. Brutalist Baycrest Hospital facade.
20221214. Waterlink in the fog at Pier 27.
20221213. The Tower in the fog at Pier 27.
20221208. Lamppost, Tadashi Kawamata, Canary District.
20221204. Inside a matrix of i-beams and future Nordstrom. Yorkdale Mall. From 2015.
20221203. Randomly lit windows set the Couture Condominium (Bloor/Jarvis) apart from neighbouring high-rises on a foggy night. From 2015.
