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20160822. The Toronto South Detention Centre maximum security building can hold 1650 male remanded offenders.
20160821. The 1931 Art Deco Horse Palace at Exhibition Place.
20160820. The Fashion District’s Fashion House Condos.
20160819. Toronto’s CityPlace skyline.
20160817. Looking down at one of the longest unsupported escalators in North America.
20160816. North York’s mirrored monolith (Nestle Building).
20160815. Opened 1971 and closed 2011, Ontario Place continues to feel contemporary.
20160814. Functional modernism at Parkdale’s Seabreeze Apartments in Toronto.
20160813. A new facade joins a heritage commercial strip on Yorkville’s Scollard Street.
20160812. A Toronto TTC Flexity Outlook LRV does the Charlotte Loop (510 Spadina).
20160811. The towering modernist forms of St. James Town at night.
Looking west from Parliament Street. Several buildings are named for Canadian cities – the white building with shapely balconies is the Toronto and in the distance the right tower is the Hamilton.
20160810. The tiny New World Laundry is dominated by the high-rises of St. James Town.
In the 1960s, during redevelopment of the area, the then owner refused to sell.
20160809. The modernist Bathville Towers (1966) of North York – reminiscent of a castle’s curtain wall and its keep.
20160807. Looking up at the Winnipeg (1968) of St. James Town where the buildings are named after Canadian cities.
20160806. Uniform living at the Block Condos.
20160805. The smallest cuboid on the block dwarfed by an angled Ernst & Young Tower.
20160803. Gutting an Art Deco heritage-designated destructor in the Stockyards District.
20160802 Looking west along Adelaide St, it is apparent that Toronto’s core is condominium central.
20160801. Rouge brise-soleil.
20160729. Under Toronto’s pristine elevated Gardiner Expressway East.
20160728. Hemmed in by skyscrapers in downtown Toronto.
20160727. A top-down view of Toronto’s Commerce Court West Tower.
Note the green roof of the Toronto Dominion Centre banking pavilion to the right.
20160726. 1972 rough-hewn concrete modernism. 240 Duncan Mill Rd, Toronto.
In 2009, a concrete slab, the building’s brise-soleil or sun baffle, fell of the building with 100 people inside.
20160725. Art in the Absence of Advertising.
