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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.
20160319. Walking by the Interncontinental cliff in Toronto’s Simcoe canyon.
The 1984-built Interncontinental Toronto Centre Hotel was formerly the Crowne Plaza Hotel Toronto and L’Hotel CN before that.
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.
20160311. The original Palace Street School section (1858) of what became Toronto’s Cherry St Hotel and Canary Diner.
The Canary District (and former PAN AM Athlete’s Village) is named after the diner. This is the oldest multi-room school house in Toronto.
20160308. The sky is the limit at Toronto’s Air Miles Tower.
20160307. The 1936 CNE Bandshell, Toronto’s Art Deco Hollywood Bowl.
20160305. Rack House D, Building 42 at the Gooderham and Worts Distillery, a heritage-designated National Historic Site in Toronto.
This is a 6-storey masonry warehouse building that was used to store barrels of alcohol. Designed by David Roberts Jr and constructed between 1842-1851, it was built where the residence of James Gooderham Worts once stood. Archaeological evidence of this residence may survive underneath the building. Thanks goes to a Heritage Impact Assessment report by ERA Architects for the above information.
20160304. The anatomy of a fire exit stairwell.
20160303. An imposing residential tower rises above a walk up courtyard (Seligman and Dick, c.1972).
20160302. Toronto’s modern classical 1953 decommissioned Commissioners St Incinerator building.
An excellent example of Modern Classical design with stone detailing and varied fenestration, the incinerator opened in 1955 with the capacity to burn 900 Imperial tons per day. It was closed in 1988 after a Department of Public Health reported that it generated dioxin and other carcinogenic chemicals. It now functions as a waste transfer station.
20160301. Waiting for the bus under a massive relic of modernism.
Toronto‘s Sutton Place Hotel was built in 1967 by WZMH Architects. After almost 50 years in service the building is being redeveloped as a condominium tower.
20160229. The shifting balconies of the 1Thousand Bay Condos.
20160228. A stripped 1967 brutalist Sutton Place Hotel shall transform into The Britt Condos.
20160227. Modernist Box Office. Toronto’s 1957 Queen Elizabeth Building.
