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20160912. Seeking out shadows in the night under the Gardiner Expressway.
20160911. This is where the Gardiner Expressway’s future Simcoe Street off-ramp will land.
20160910. Aqualina condo construction continues behind Sherbourne Common’s glowing zinc-clad pavilion.
20160909. Night transforms Lake Shore Blvd E into a sub-freeway speedway.
20160908. The unmistakable west facade of the almost ready Sun Life Financial Tower.
20160907. Ten York’s pointy podium takes shape on a wedge of land bordered by the Gardiner Expressway and one of its off-ramps.
20160906. Imminent demolition of the St. Lawrence Market North Building may unearth 200 years of history.
20160905. Renovations continue below at The Salvation Army Toronto Grace Health Centre.
20160904. Nail-polish scented steam escapes as a PVC liner is cured within a watermain requiring rehabilitation.
A PVC liner is inserted into a watermain between two manholes. Hot steam is then used to expand the liner to the width of pipe. The thermosetting resin in the liner is then cured by the steam and hardens. After cooling, the liner is now waterproof. This trenchless technology is used to stop leaks from imperfections or gaps in piping.
20160903. Mies’ black monoliths of modernism – the TD Centre.
20160902. Sheraton Centre’s brutalist triangular marquee mushroom.
20160831. Downside-up Deloitte stairway. Minimal Aesthetic 98.
20160830. Inside the Deloitte atrium of the new Bay Adelaide Centre East and its suspended staircase.
20160829. Taking down Tim Hortons and a licensed rooming house to make way for Grid Condos.
20160828. An aerial view on a Mies van der Rohe masterpiece – the TD Centre.
20160827. The bridge to Atlantis – a pavilion at Ontario Place.
20160826. Moss Park Modernism.
20160825. Playing in the skylight corridor at North York Centre.
Moriyama and Teshima Architects, 1989.
20160824. Make a brutalist building brutal with a skirt of contemporary cladding.
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.
