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20180222. The Holy Angels Roman Catholic Church is a modest postmodern structure straddling industrial and residential areas in Islington.
20180220. The mid-century expressionist Holy Eucharist Ukrainian Catholic Church (Rostislav Zuk, 1967).
20180219. Pearl St will soon transform from a street to skyscrapers to a street of skyscrapers.
20180218. An Edwardian Classical Courtyard in Cedarvale.
20180217. Inside the curvy Samsung Experience Store.
A nondescript building somewhere between modern and postmodern awaits demolition to make way for ‘home: Power and Adelaide,’ a block-sized mixed-use development in Corktown.
20180215. The laneway to the toy factory.
Looking up at the CityPlace Puente de Luz bridge.
20180212. Etobicoke’s Viceroy Building is a tiny, old modernist gem; sitting on slender columns, its bulk seems to defy gravity (wide-angle version).
20180211. Kipling Station has new cladding and a new spelling.
20180210. The columns supporting this isogonal-octagon-shaped late-modernist (1981) building at 4141 Yonge St. give it a sense of levity.
20180209. The Carlton and Cambridge stand sentinel on Sentinal Rd., watching over the frontier-style subdivision at York University.
20180208. Working on the incline constructing the Gardiner Expressway’s Simcoe Ramp. Taken July 17, 2017.
20180205. Inspecting the rooftop equipment under low lying cloud cover.
WE ARE LAW and this is interesting architecture.
Strange architectural bedfellows – colossal and contemporary contrasting with modest, modernist and moderne – until the older building sprouts its own office tower.
20180202. The urban fabric of the Fashion District.
20180131. The facade of the 1889 Romanesque Revival Frederick Crompton Building, embedded in the HSBC Building (70 York St), includes rustic stone cladding and the repitition of round-arched arcades.
20180130. This fine specimen of 1878 industrial architecture at 15 Mercer St., built by Langley, Langley & Burke as stables for Verral Cab, Omnibus and Baggage Transfer Co., shall play facade for the 45-storey twin tower Nobu Residences, a condo, hotel, dining complex owned by Nobu Hospitality, a chain founded partly by Robert DeNiro.
20180129. Facadism with depth and a shipping container midrise.
20180128. The Simcoe Ramp opened earlier today. John Tory called it a happy day with the ramp opening on time and on budget.
20180127. Looking up at Cloverdale Mall.
20180126. Deconstructing the Richmond-Adelaide Centre – a complex of buildings by WZMH Architects spanning 51 years with a temporary trailer terrace addition.
20180125. At the Westbank Honest Ed’s development, Trainers Fitness topples next to the AltermaThinking holdout (and pretty neat store). #Toronto #redevelopment #architecture #demolition @VillageMirvish @Mirvish_Village @MirvishVillage @UrbStrat
