20210912. Meet your LRV on The Crosstown LRT. Line 5 opens in 2022.
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20210911. Science Centre Station on the Eglinton Crosstown LRT is nearly complete.
20210909. Dynamic testing of the Eglinton Crosstown LRT coupled light rail vehicles has begun between Laird Dr. and Kennedy Rd.
20210906. The new Kipling Bus Terminal serviced by GO Transit and MiWay is a bit of a walk but it has great art.
20210905. Toronto’s grand University Avenue.
20210904. Minimal Aesthetic #156. Looking up at the Fleur Condos.
20210706. Bridges of July #06. The Puente De Luz pedestrian bridge under construction in 2011. The ‘Bridge of Light’ takes people from Front Street to CityPlace.
20210705. Bridges (and underpasses and overpasses) of July 05. John B. Parkin’s 1966 modern enclosed open spandrel concrete arch bridge brings the subway over the Riverdale Ravine.
20210701. Infrastructure is sexy so here are the bridges of July! 01. A man puts a highway overpass into scale showing just how much space fast moving vehicles need.
20210615. Brutalist June 15. Living in Brutalism at Moss Park’s 1974 Centrepoint East high-rise complex.
20210605. #Brutalism Month continues! #Brutalist-05. The west facade of the brutalist yet forever contemporary Manulife Centre.
20210522. Looking up at the self storage orange of the Livmore rental condos.
20210521. Reflecting the roundish Panorama Condos.
20210520. A colourful Apple Self Storage wall makes for a happier trash receptacle.
20210519. A reskinned modern apartment tower at Teesdale Place. Here’s the building before the new shell – https://bit.ly/2Qv9nw2.
20210517. The three wings of the Cambridge Place apartments.
20210508. Pizza block (Papa Ceo Pizza and Cora Pizza) on Spadina Ave at Harbord St has fed me decent slices for over 33 years so far.
20210223. The construction office at 19 Duncan is mounted directly to the facade support structure.
20210122. Get some tasty tandoori or sell cash for gold at this postmodern scarborough strip mall.
20210121. The Great Wall of Queens Quay provides a sound barrier between Redpath Sugar and the Pier 27 Condos.
20210120. The open air pavilion in St James Park was inspired by the Gothic arches of the neighbouring St. James Cathedral.
20210119. 93 years later, Loblaws is open once again at Bathurst and Lakeshore but as a grocery store not the former Loblaw head office and warehouse.
20201216. Remembering the old GO Transit concourse at Union Station (1979) and one of its nicest design elements – the doors.
20201107. Concrete eye in the sky.
20200908. The rear of 149-157 Bathurst Street, a row of houses to be demolished for a condo development by RAW Design.
