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20160415. An impressive Concourse Building facsimile (100 Adelaide St W) has returned to our skyline embedded in the EY Tower, replete with fine Art Deco detailing.
20160413. A bird’s eye view of a smokestack perch at TTC’s Davisville Yard.
20160411. A man puts a highway overpass into scale (showing just how much space fast moving vehicles need).
20160410. The unusual Bergeron Centre for Engineering Excellence at York University’s Keele Campus.
20160407. A platform with a view.
20160406. Sadly, one of the most expressive Modernist buildings in Toronto, Davisville Junior Public School, is at grave risk of being demolished.
Architect Peter Pennington, 1962.
20160404. East elevation of Toronto’s once Consumers Gas Co. Purifying House No. 2 and now the Canadian Opera Company’s Opera Theatre.
Architects Strictland and Symens, 1888, Renaissance Revival.
The building was designed in the style of an early Christian basilica with a clerestory roof. It may have been built as a self-supporting structure and simply placed on top of the building so that any explosion would raise it without destroying the walls (from the COC’s website).
20160403. Reception and Transmission above downtown Toronto.
20160331. Sunset reflections dapple Toronto’s Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery.
The building that is The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery was built in 1926 as the powerhouse that housed the heating and refrigeration equipment for the Toronto Terminal Warehouse, now the Queen’s Quay Terminal. The building was renovated and reopened in 1987.
20160330. Brick Brutalist Baptist Building.
Northminster Baptist Church, Jane-Finch neighbourhood, North York, Toronto.
20160328. Remembering the Art Deco Loblaw Groceterias Warehouse (Lakeshore and Bathurst, Toronto) before demolition.
Sparling, Morton and Forbes, c.1928.
20160326. Reserved for reflections of fenestrated sunlight.
20160325. Symmetry in the shadow of a setting sun.
20160324. Columns in plastic wrap and rows of lights march forward. Inside a warehouse demolition II.
20160323. In a staring contest with Toronto’s Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery.
The building that is The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery was built in 1926 as the powerhouse that housed the heating and refrigeration equipment for the Toronto Terminal Warehouse, now the Queen’s Quay Terminal (reflected in the glass). The building was renovated and reopened in 1987.
20160321. Shedding light on Spring at Harbourfront Centre’s Canada Square.
20160320. Inside a warehouse demolition.
20160318. As the sun sets, Toronto’s Sun Life Tower goes black and gold.
20160317. Behind a Beaux Arts bank building (c.1907).
20160316. Claustrophobic Corridor to the Concourse at Toronto’s Union Station.
20160315. Peering up Cityplace Block 32 at bold Toronto Community Housing.
20160314. The mid-century expressionist canopy of Uno Prii’s Americana apartment building in North Toronto (1963).
20160313. A discounted UP Express train races below Toronto’s Bathurst Street bridge.
20160312. All that remains of the 1928 Art Deco Loblaws Grocerterias Warehouse (Lakeshore and Bathurst, Toronto).
Don’t worry as they are going to be “re-establisng an original” by saving 100,000 bricks and stonework for the West and South faces with a couple of condo towers behind and an addition on top.