Tag Archives: toronto
20201210. Smokestack. The decommissioned Richard L. Hearn Thermal Generating Station has no fence keeping urban explorers away.
20201209. With mobile gantry cranes parked and no girders to be seen, it seems that Phase 1 of the Gardiner Expressway Rehabilitation from Jarvis to Cherry Streets is just about done.
20201208. Capturing the past and the future of Toronto’s Port Lands (Don Mouth Naturalization Project by Waterfront Toronto).
20201207. The new Union Station bus terminal is now open but there isn’t much to see. It’s as bland as the new GO Train concourse and the boarding area is not visible to the public.
20201206. Looking up at the cast iron glass dome at Toronto’s Allan Gardens Conservatory Palm House.
20201205. Deer Park United Church Cross Section.
20201204. The only similarity between the Chaz Condos and the 1966 Macy Dubois gem that it replaced is the octagonal shape of both buildings.
20201130. The Colonnade was the first modern mixed use building in the city. Gerald Robinson and Tampold Wells Architects, 1964.
20201124. Georgian Symmetry.
20201120. A modern apartment high-rise with a very substantial entranceway canopy.
20201119. Brutalism at the Toronto Catholic District School Board (Concrete Architecture #13).
20201116. The rear of the former Masonic Hall (Richard Ough, 1888) at Yonge and Gloucester is prepared for construction of the Ivy, a 34-storey condominium tower.
20201115. The incredible Scott Library at York University.
20201114. The space between the Chelmsford Apartments high-rise towers.
20201111. Thales Canada (formerly IBM) and its concrete office complex (Crang & Boake, 1982).
20201110. Looking east over the tip of Ordnance Triangle where the Union Station Rail Corridor splits.
20201109. Brutalism in the Toronto District School Board at Stephen Leacock Collegiate Institute.
20201107. Concrete eye in the sky.
20201106. Looking east along the Gatineau Hydro Corridor through Rouge Nation Urban Park and over the Rouge River.
20201105. 77 Grenville St, an Ontario Government building and former Archives of Ontario, was built at the height of Brutalism’s popularity in Canada (E. Janiss, 1972).
20201104. The Queen St entrance to the Sheraton Centre, a complex built to compliment City Hall directly across the street (John B. Parkin Associates, 1972).
20201102. Postmodern stripes of glass and brick.
20201101. The council chambers at York Civic Centre – a 1974 addition to the original 1950 building.
20201031. In the new Ordnance Triangle.
