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20170215. The unique fusing of contemporary and modernist highrise architecture at 66 Isabella.
20170214. Welcome to the Humber College Lakeshore Campus Welcome Centre.
20170213. Podium glass distortions at the Casa Condos at 33 Charles Street East.
20170212. The brutalist blockiness of 55 St. Clair West (Esso Place, WZMH Architects, 1981).
20170211. This charming unkempt building at College and Huron faces demolition then inaccurate facadism as part of the Design Haus condos by developer Shiu Pong and Kirkor Architects.
20170210. The cute rowhouses of Belmont Street, renovated in 1962 by Joan Burt, the only woman in Ontario at the time with an architectural practice actively working as an architect.
20170209. The highly fenestrated 31-storey Yorkville Condominiums.
20170208. The NOW Magazine building is being demolished now to make way for the 29 storey Fleur Condos (Menkes Developments / Architects Alliance).
20170207. The vintage modernist Oriole Arms apartments in Toronto’s Deer Park neighbourhood.
20170206. Reflecting on the new PATH connection to the new Sun Life Financial Tower.
20170205. The College condominiums, aptly named for the street they are on, sport multi-coloured glass balconies on the west side catching the afternoon sun.
20170204. Fluorescent light shadows emanate from where ceiling meets wall. Minimal Aesthetic 107.
20170203. Looking up at a transformer tower at the A. W. Manby Transformer Station.
20170202. The new Class A Leed Platinum 35-storey Sun Life Financial Tower is now open.
20170201. With the fence up, the Victory Cafe closed, and the 1892 Victorian house retained, the transition of Markham Village has begun.
20170131. TTC’s Kipling Station Bus Platform from the tracks.
20170130. The convoluted series of ramps that is Etobicoke’s Six Points Interchange will soon undergo a major reconfiguration.
20170129. Looking up at the octagonally-framed circular dome at Gouinlock’s Government Building (Beaux Arts in Baroque Classical style, 1912).
20170128. A psychedelic mid-century modernist brick wall at 103 Avenue Road featuring alternating smooth-turquoise-stretcher and buff-yellow-header brick. Minimal Aesthetic 106.
20170127. A TTC Flexity Outlook LRV zooms past the Radisson Admiral Hotel on Queens Quay.
20170126. Fifteen fenestra facade at the doomed LCBO warehouse. Minimal Aesthetic 105.
20170125. Looking up at the First Canadian Place tower from behind bars.
20170124. The Ice Breakers hands frame the building that shall soon be replaced by a Quadrangle Architects tower.
20170123. Entering TTC’s Humber Loop tunnel under the Gardiner Expressway.
