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20160622. An aerial view of Toronto Union Station’s historic exposed train shed steel structure.
Progress on the train shed has stalled as the future electrification of Go Transit trains will require either modifying the overhead wiring system to fit under the shed, lowering the floor or raising the roof with the latter being the worst case scenario as it involves considerable cost and harming the historic steel structure.
20160621. The abstract yet patent facade of the Thompson Residences. Minimal Aesthetic 95.
20160620. The boiler house (building 38) at Toronto’s old Unilever factory, a site soon to be transformed by First Gulf.
20160619. Before: A 1930 Newsome & Gilbert Limited class 1 brick and beam printing plant on King St West. Now: A partially demolished building making way for the future King Portland Centre.
20160618. The massive block-long building of the Toronto Carpet Manufacturing Company (1899. addition 1925).
20160617. The competing reflections of Bay Adelaide East versus Bay Adelaide West.
20160616. The Bessarian perspective on TTC’s Sheppard Line.
20160615. The narrowest building of Toronto’s Waterlink at Pier 27 condos and its industry-separating wall.
20160612. TTC’s Wilson Station mushroom.
Toronto
20160611. At Luminato at the Hearn, ride the construction elevator to the cavernous level above!
20160609. Almost dinner time in the Distillery District.
20160609. Presto fare gates have replaced the old turnstiles at TTC’s Wellesley Station.
20160608. The bird-friendly art (Tadashi Kawamata’s Lamppost) in Toronto’s Canary District.
20160607. The prismatic podium of Toronto’s rhomboidal Burano on Bay Condos.
20160606. The Claude Watson School of the Arts honeycomb facade (Kohn Shnier Architects, 2007).
20160605. Structures contemporary, temporary and of history in Toronto’s Distillery District.
20160603. The brutalist block massing of the Toronto Catholic District School Board Head Office in North York.
20160602. The Eye of Commerce Court North.
20160601. As this aerial photo of Dufferin Grove suggests, Toronto is largely a city of neighbourhoods.
20160530. Floating Flexity streetcar at TTC’s Leslie Barns Maintenance and Storage Facility.
20160529. Commerce Court North corridor ceiling.
20160528. Toronto’s first new Flexity LRV (streetcar) 4401 prepares for warp speed.
Ok, in reality it sits in the paint booth at the new TTC Leslie Streetcar Barns during Doors Open Toronto 2016.
20160527. Red Aluminum Siding at The Brick.
20160526. A sculpture of a ceiling. Minimal Aesthetic 93.
