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20200113. The L in L-Tower stands for lunar.
20200112. Looking up at the Warden Water Tank at 15 Civic Rd in Scarborough’s Golden Mile.
20200111. A large mural graces the south side ground floor wall of the Grid Condos.
20200110. The front precast concrete wall of the Toronto Hydro Electric Substation at Charles and Jarvis.
20200109. Stripping away the brutalist elements at 1200 Eglinton Ave E (near Wynford Drive), a classic building by Raymond Moriyama.
20200108. The construction site at 160 Front St is almost fully excavated underneath the rear face of the remaining heritage facade.
20200107. The Jean Lumb Public School and the Bishop Macdonell Catholic Elementary School opened yesterday in Toronto’s CityPlace neighbourhood though I cannot tell which school is shown in this photo.
20200106. The new GO Transit Bay Concourse at Union Station is starting to take shape and contrasts starkly from the old concourse also shown below.
20191230. Matching mid-rises in the Church and Wellesley neighbourhood.
20191229. Behind the facades of 19 Duncan Street, a future mixed-use development, significant progress has been made on excavation.
20191228. Taking advantage of a facade’s support structure in lighting a construction hoarding walkway at King and Peter.
20191227. The best construction hoarding in Toronto could be at Wellington and York, around the 1888 Toronto Club.
20191218. The partial 1870 Andrew McFarren Building at 237 Queen St E. once extended along Queen St to Sherbourne St to the right but was truncated for a bank branch that no longer exists.
20191212. Bent (engineering): a traverse framework to carry lateral as well as vertical loads such as the demolished Bay off-ramp from the Gardiner Expressway that this one carried. Can we please save at least one?
20191211. Carlton Street is a corridor of architectural eras.
20191129. U Condominium Underpass
20191128. The back of what looks like a box building.
20191126. The heritage-listed Victory Soya Mills silos and their reflection on the East Bayfront.
20191124. A fabricated section of replacement decking for the Gardiner Expressway waits at the fabrication site to be put into place. This is part of the strategic rehabilitation of the elevated highway from Jarvis to Cherry Street.See https://bit.ly/37z0TYu for more information.
20191123. A natural gas pipeline runs through it. Highland Creek.
20191121. The shortest of six bents, a temporary legacy to the bay street off-ramp, is the only one catching the setting sun.
20191120. The large tent structures at the east end of the fabrication site where sections of replacement decking are being built for the Gardiner Expressway strategic rehabilitation from Jarvis to Cherry Street.
20191119. A amorphous and pixelated CN Tower reflection on the Delta Hotel at dusk.
20191118. Take a seat in the CityPlace canyon.
