20250323. Notice: a change has been proposed to this site including melting this snow. Taken Feb 25, 2025. What the heck is a curated condominium?
Tag Archives: yonge street
20240622. The way the IMMIX rental building handles Fire Hall #3 and its clock tower (1872) strikes me as overly busy with patterned balconies and discordant materials at ground level but I do like the quality of restoration by ERA Architects, the glass facade of the long gone hall and the way the clock face is against a more subtle background.
20240201. The scene at Yonge and Wellesley during today’s blackout.
20221026. Freestyle fenestration with do-it-yourself mullions at the old Church of Scientology building on Yonge Street.
20200316. From here, Yonge Street seems to be a boulevard of facades.
20200307. A tower crane on a parkade to help build 2 Queen Street West.
20191015. Behind the facades of Toronto history on Yonge Street.
20191009. Only the north and west facades remain of the 1924 Gerrard Buidling which is a rare example of the Modern Gothic style adapted to a commercial building (Heritage Listed 1994).
20190828. The Yonge Street Mission occupied this future site of the YSL Condos at 381 Yonge Street since 1896.
20190823. Facade support structure at future YSL Residences tower development site.
20190807. Preserving the facades below the future 85-storey YSL Residences condo tower.
20190702. Rooftoppers prepping for a parade
20190629. People and the reflection of people preparing to welcome a parade.
20170625. Perched above pride parade party people on Yonge Street.
20190407. Demolition reveals glass covered long ago between Yonge St and O’Keefe Lane south of Gerrard. This is the site of the future 85-storey YSL Residences condo tower.
The condominium behind this lovely 1891 Gothic Revival building is a bad example of contextual architecture – a principle of design in which a structure is designed with reference to its surroundings.
20190123. E.J. Lennox designed this second empire commercial block on Yonge Street for the Scottish Ontario and Manitoba Land Company in 1883.
20181103. Yonge Street Storefronts.
20180129. Facadism with depth and a shipping container midrise.
20170225. Looking down Yonge Street from Summerhill, the downtown core seems to be sprouting buildings.
20161001. One Bloor dominates an ever-rising Toronto skyline.
20160930. This block on Yonge Street is to be demolished to make way for the 44-storey Clover on Yonge condominiums.
20151215. Demolition minus the facade of another Yonge Street strip where the 1 Yorkville Condominiums will rise.
Please see the previous photo for the front facade of this new development site.
20151214. Another Yonge Street strip facade from behind which the 1 Yorkville Condominiums will rise.
20151027. A boarded up block of Toronto’s Yonge Street will be home to the two tower Teahouse Condominiums.
