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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.
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.
