20240721. Porte Cochère IV. 130 Gowan Ave.
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20240622. The way the IMMIX rental building handles Fire Hall #3 and its clock tower (1872) strikes me as overly busy with patterned balconies and discordant materials at ground level but I do like the quality of restoration by ERA Architects, the glass facade of the long gone hall and the way the clock face is against a more subtle background.
20240621. From fast food to slow decay on Dundas. Can you guess the franchise?
20240620. Dupont Station has a new storage room and new art all around it. James Sutherland, the artist behind the giant flower tilework at platform level from 1978 has now created this second art installation entitled “The Force that through the green fuse drives the flower” (2021).
20240605. CN Tower XVI. What seems to be a wet tower with dry pixelated patches is really a wet tower with spot repairs done with a smooth finished concrete contrasting with the original texture.
20240604. Demolition of the second-last old (around 1947) mid-rise apartment building in Regent Park continues. The CN Tower series will return shortly.
20240509. A brick wall with brick fenestration now forever hidden.
20240505. All that sky on the Danforth means a redevelopment is happening. Here comes Pape Station on the Ontario Line.
20240502. Public art at Yonge and St. Clair (Phlegm, 2016) on the Padulo building (Sigmund D. F. Reszetnik, 1968). We will lose the mural when this building is widened and 37 storeys are added on top.
20240501. LCBO head office facade II.
20240430. The Dufferin Street Presbyterian Church (William R. Gregg, Neo Gothic, 1912) – from on fire in 2014 to completed condo conversion called the Hallam Towns in 2024.
20240429. LCBO head office facade.
20240428. The future location of King-Bathurst station on the @ontarioline is behind the south facade of the Canada Biscuit Company (A.R. Denison, 1900) I am hoping more of the west facade is retained than pictured here.
20240425. Somewhere slightly north of Danforth is this sodium vapour facade.
20240424. Three reflections on 45 St. Clair W – Clifford & Lawrie, 1968.
20240423. The Duplate Canada Building (right, Allward & Gouinlock, 1957) and the Rolex building (left Allward & Gouinlock, 1951) have an interesting history and will be featured in my upcoming tour “Modern Scenes on St. Clair II” with Heritage Toronto.
20240422. The Daily Food Mart at 8 Pailton is an interesting building with a front facade following the road and a built-in wall. It will be replaced by a parkette north of a new condo to be built at 214 Merton.
20240421. The moving heritage bank building wall.
20240420. The modernist Moss Park Armoury (Page & Steele Architects, 1966), has lost some of its modernism. Take a look at the roofline in both images (taken 2024 and 2020).
20240419. Campbell Block at Dundas and Keele. James Augustus Ellis, 1888.
20240417. The doorway beckons late at night.
20240416. University of Toronto St. George Campus Exam Centre, formerly Toronto Board of Education Supply Building. CE Cyril Dyson, 1931.
20240415. Left – Langston House, 771-773 Yonge St, 1883. Right – Albert Britnell Book Shop, 765 Yonge St, RB McGiffen, 1928. Soon to be – Adagio. Do people actually reference the condo they live in? “Oh, I live at ‘Adagio'”.
20240414. The modern parking spot.
20240413. Carlyle Block (1893), 234-242 Queen Street East, Moss Park.
