Tag Archives: vik pahwa photography
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.
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.
20160808. U.S. Steel sits quietly in Hamilton Harbour.
20160807. Looking up at the Winnipeg (1968) of St. James Town where the buildings are named after Canadian cities.
20160806. Uniform living at the Block Condos.
20160805. The smallest cuboid on the block dwarfed by an angled Ernst & Young Tower.
20160804. Following a major renovation, Yorkville’s Hazelton Lanes shopping mall is now called Yorkville Village.
Top: after renovation. Below: before renovation.
20160803. Gutting an Art Deco heritage-designated destructor in the Stockyards District.
