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20150216. York University’s award-winning Seymour Schulich Building and Executive Learning Centre in Toronto. Hariri Pontarini Architects, 2004.
Hariri Pontarini Architects in joint venture with Robbie/Young + Wright Architects designed this building, a 2006 Governor General Medal in Architecture winner.
20150215. Below a Toronto bayfront billboard. Sitting on future Monde condo land, this relic will disappear.
20150214. Lines and exposed concrete define the lower entrance to University of Toronto’s brutalist Robarts Library.
20150213. Pipes and handrails follow stairwell contours in Toronto’s TTC Pape Subway station.
20150212. The Shim-Sutcliffe Architects award-winning Sisters of the St. Joseph Residence (East York, Toronto).
This is a hospital / assisted-living centre with impressive green features including integrated solar panels, geothermal heating and cooling, a green roof and permeable pavers in the parking lot to reduce water runoff.
20150211. Below the metal canopy of the Allen Lambert Galleria at Toronto’s Brookfield Place.
20150210. With Global Village Backpackers’ Hostel now closed, what’s next for this 1875 Second Empire building at King and Spadina?
This building was originally the Richardson House. It was built in 1875 but then modified in 1882 and 1890. In 1917 it became the Spadina Hotel where Leonard Cohen and the Rolling Stones played, a Jack Nicholson film was made and Ernest Hemingway stayed. In 1997 it became the Global Village Backpacker’s Hostel. Late last year the owner died and the place was quickly closed up.
20150209. Down the Delta Toronto monochromatic ramp into a colourful parkade.
20150208. New and old contrast vividly in Toronto’s Regent Park during the demolition of its 2nd last modernist tower.
20150207. An unusual aerial view of the CN Tower without its main observation level.
20150206. Toronto’s June Callwood Park sits in a canyon with a sheer condo cliff to the west known as Neptune 2.
20150205. Inside the machine. Atrium on Bay in Toronto.
20150204. Mies van der Rohe’s pavilion at the Toronto Dominion Centre, Toronto II.
20150203. Toronto’s 1933 derelict art deco former incinerator and waste transfer station at 150 Symes in the Stockyards district.
20150202. The curved concrete modernism of Toronto’s TTC Wilson Station waiting area and wind barriers
20150201. University of Toronto’s Tartu College (c.1969) is brutalist but elegant with its thin precast cedar-board-formed concrete exterior walls.
20150131. Viljo Revell’s Toronto City Hall reaches for the sky.
20150130. Downtown Buffalo’s mezmerizing International Style Edward A. Rath County Office Building.
20150129. An old school Leon’s Furniture lights up Toronto’s Danforth Village neighbourhood.
20150128. At 129 metres in height, Toronto’s Leaside Towers in Thorncliffe Park scrape the sky.
20150127. The length of Toronto’s subway stations is made apparent at Warden.
20150126. Toronto’s John Street Roundhouse (c.1929) is home to Toronto Railway Museum, SteamWhistle Brewing and Leons Furniture.
To learn more about the history of the John Street Roundhouse, come to a talk this Saturday: http://ow.ly/HZuho
20150125. A view of many rooms in the 4th Dickinson modernist high-rise demolition in Toronto’s Regent Park.
