Tag Archives: toronto
20170330. A bird’s eye view of Skydome, I mean Rogers Centre, and its Renaissance Toronto Downtown Hotel.
20170329. New and old bents (support columns with horizontal caps) stand side by side at a Gardiner Expressway off-ramp.
20170328. One Spadina is just about ready for Faculty and Staff to move in.
20170327. The new anodized-aluminum-clad SQ Spadina Queen Condos is very close to completion.
20170326. The 1965 Bell Telephone building podium and aluminum-clad tower at 76 Adelaide Street West.
20170325. The conduits for power in a conduit for people – Ossington Station.
20170323. The wall cladding outside Toronto’s biggest ballroom at the Beanfield Centre – formerly the Allstream Centre but forever the automotive building
20170322. Etobicoke’s Viceroy Building is a tiny, old modernist gem; sitting on slender columns, its bulk seems to defy gravity.
20170321. A latticework of balconies and concrete forms the facade of the modernist Tower Hill tower.
20170320. 1880s Victorian houses modeled into Yorkville’s York Square (1968), face development pressure to build a 30-storey condo on top.
20170319. Approaching Union Station from the west, all 12 platforms of the train shed are visible.
20170318. A setting sun shines on both the Picasso Condos and its reflection.
20170317. Where lamp post bears a resemblance to cladding. Minimal Aesthetic 109.
20170316. The full narrower west elevation of the modernist 1958 limestone-clad former Shell Oil building at 505 University Avenue including the 7 additional floors added 8 years later.
20170315. This row of buildings at 738-744 Bathurst St (at Lennox St) will be conserved in the Westbank-developed Mirvish Village.
20170314. Eight section dual reflection atrium skylight.
20170313. The College Park atrium, with a railing-free staircase and a wall of wood hoarding, is getting a facelift.
20170312. A pyramid skylight of glass and mullions.
20170311. Expert urban explorers descend the steep concrete rubble slope to the Don River valley below the 401.
20170310. Looking up in a lesser known TTC Finch Station Entrance. Minimal Aesthetic 108.
20170309. Looking up at an Ontario Coat of Arms inscribed skylight inside the Queen’s Park neoclassical marble west atrium.
20170308. The towers of Waterpark City rise over pink June Callwood Park.
20170307. The 1892 Queen Anne Revival 2.5-storey fourplex Henry Mullen Buildings shall remain in the Westbank-developed Mirvish Village.
20170306. Happy birthday 183 Toronto – from above!
