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20190410. The big black dot at Bay Adelaide Centre East.
20190408. People walk by St. Luke Lane and its window on four eras of architecture – old commercial, modern, postmodern and contemporary.
20190407. Demolition reveals glass covered long ago between Yonge St and O’Keefe Lane south of Gerrard. This is the site of the future 85-storey YSL Residences condo tower.
The condominium behind this lovely 1891 Gothic Revival building is a bad example of contextual architecture – a principle of design in which a structure is designed with reference to its surroundings.
20190403. The rounded board-formed concrete interior of the 1969 Brutalist Toronto District School Board West Education Office.
20190331. In the Entertainment District alley ways give way to high-rise condominiums.
20190328. St. Paul the Apostle Church, a Maltese-Canadian Parish in Malta Village.
20190321. On Elm Street, the University of Toronto Faculty of Dentistry reflects the Hospital for Sick Children.
20190319. A six-storey community housing building awaits demolition in Regent Park’s Block 1, for Phase 3 of development.
20190318. A 46 storey office tower will replace this 1905 commercial building at 156 Front St W. The front facade of the old building will be dismantled and reconstructed.
20190317. A strip mall with variety II.
20190314. This is not post-apocalyptic Etobicoke but rather an old ramp from before the now mostly reconfigured Six Points Interchange.
20190312. The Lawrence Avenue Duplexes (at Yonge St) form one of the finest rows of houses in Toronto.
20190310. A Bay and Gable commercial strip on College Street.
20190307. The narrowest building of Toronto’s Waterlink at Pier 27 condos and its industry-separating wall.
20190306. Another parking garage and a great place for elevated views bites the dust. Yorkville between Bay, Yonge, Yorkville and Cumberland.
20190305. The King Street facade of 122 Dowling Ave.
20190304. The 1833 Thomas Thompson Building (corner) with its 1880 second empire roof and the 1842 173-179 King St E (to the right) with its 1870 mansard roof are part of one of the oldest rows of buildings standing in Toronto.
20190303. The 150 m Bell Canada Pharmacy Avenue Telecommunications Tower was built primarily for long range microwave radio links in the mid 20th century, largely replaced by fibre optic networks today.
20190226. The Mother of God of Prousa Greek Orthodox Church and its chapter building at 457-461 Richmond St E.
20190225. The 1913 Marks and Cohen Building, a commercial block in Little Italy.
20190224. The eminent Nicholas Metivier Gallery, representing impressive photographers such as Edward Burtynsky, Michael Awad and Sebastião Salgado, has moved to a handsome building at 190 Richmond St E.
20190223. The rounded board formed concrete exterior of the 1969 Brutalist Toronto District School Board West Education Office.
20190222. The Valhalla Executive Centre at 300 The East Mall, with its tallest building vacant, awaits a mixed use redevelopment with 1100 units in four condo towers.
