20240504. What were they thinking when they made this mixed-use monstrosity known as the Holly Square Apartments (1968) up at Yonge and Eglinton.
Tag Archives: uptown
20240502. Public art at Yonge and St. Clair (Phlegm, 2016) on the Padulo building (Sigmund D. F. Reszetnik, 1968). We will lose the mural when this building is widened and 37 storeys are added on top.
20240424. Three reflections on 45 St. Clair W – Clifford & Lawrie, 1968.
20240215. The braced facade of the old Capitol Theatre commercial block.
20240213. The 1969 Parkwood Towers on Redpath near Eglinton sits empty awaiting demolition and redevelopment.
20240118. Notice 8. There’s a proposal to add 35 storeys and widen the Padulo Building (Sigmund D.F. Reszetnik, 1968) at Yonge and St. Clair while maintaining and complimenting the existing facade. I like that the hideous ground level addition will be removed and improved.
20231128. How the Ambassador apartment building has changed. Before and After.
20220507. The new Hill and Dale Residences feature very clear reflections despite having bird-friendly glass.
20211123. The multi-coloured window mid-rise.
20181027. The skylight corridor at North York Civic Centre.
20180721. Shards and octagons at the Weston Centre.
20170118. The Eglinton Grand, a national historic site and elaborate and luxurious example of Art Deco architecture (1936), is back as an elegant event space. #Toronto, #architecture, Canada’s Historic Places
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.
20160707. Toronto’s octagonal, stainless-steel clad and still current Weston Centre tower.
Leslie Rebanks, 1975, International Style
20160503. Toronto’s Yonge and Eglinton skyline continues to rise (looking north along Yonge Street).
20160202. A crane now rises from the E Condos north building site at Yonge and Eglinton.
20160114. White lines on the Sheppard subway line.
20160112. The impressive Canada Square Complex at Yonge and Eglinton (Kenneth Cooper 1963, 1972).
