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20140715. The last span standing of Cleveland’s Innerbelt Bridge.
20140710. Cubes, cylinder and shadows outside the Portlands Energy Centre (Toronto).
20140709. Ducts, frames and stairwells inside the Portlands Energy Centre in Toronto.
20140708. Looking up at the intricate roof of Sam Pollock Square (Architect Santiago Calatrava, c.1992) in Brookfield Place, Toronto.
20140707. The matrix beneath the Indy Pit-lane Grandstand at Exhibition Place in Toronto.
20140706. The mirrored merlons and concrete crenels of the Atrium on Bay (c.1981, Toronto) brought to you by Game of Thrones.
20140705. A sea of tents at the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition at Nathan Phillips Square.
20140704. The TD Canada Trust Tower at Brookfield Place in Toronto.
20140703. A narrow, new and colourful canyon of an alley beckons at the “Neighbourhoods of Riverdale” townhouse project in Toronto.
20140702. Planes of glass forest panes. Organic architecture near Bloor and Jarvis in Toronto.
20140701. The undulating waves of the Market Wharf Condo balconies. St. Lawrence hood, Toronto.
20140630. Walking along the Bloor West Lofts on a hazy sunny day (Bloor and Symington, Toronto).
20140629. Parking lot lamp on a partly cloudy sky. Minimal Aesthetic # 35. Lamp # 3.
20140628. River City Phase 1, the condominium clad in black, is the winner of the Toronto People’s Choice Award for residential architecture.
20140627. An elegant exposed concrete descent into the underground (Distillery District, Toronto).
20140626. The old Canary Restaurant (c.1859), covered in platform rigging, is getting a face-lift (Pan Am Athletes’ Village or Canary District, Toronto).
20140625. The sun shines between expressway and off-ramp under Toronto’s Gardiner.
I will be exhibiting three photos of high-rises along side other talented photographers at the opening gala for the Toronto Urban Photography Festival at Gallery 918 (918 Bathurst) this Friday June 27th from 6-11pm. Come by if you can! Check out www.tupf.ca for workshops, photo walks and phototalks from June 27 – July 12.
20140624. A financial reflection. TD Centre, King and Bay, Toronto.
20140623. Contextualism #2: The distant building addresses its context in terms of the materials, forms and details of the closer building.
If all of Peter Dickinson’s high-rises (foreground) are demolished, a memory of them will exist in 90 Sumach (background).
Note the similar forms and details: colour of brick, shape of each patch of brick, the window style and the way each building features vertical lines of windows.
20140622. Phase 3 of Regent Park’s redevelopment involves the demolition of a 1958 Peter Dickinson modernist high-rise.
20140621. Regent Park townhouses still standing versus those half demolished.
20140620. The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health’s new Utilities and Parking Building (Toronto).
20140619. Dots on Mies van der Rohe’s International Style TD Centre (Toronto).
20140618. A different angle on Manulife Financial at 250 Bloor St E (c.1968) in Toronto.
