20230120. The newly restored heritage row at Yonge and Yorkville includes buildings from 1870 and Frogley’s bakery from 1887.
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20210309. The 15 McMurrich Street Condos, a late modern residential high-rise with brutalist massing and brick exterior. Dietrick Boecker, 1981.
20200829. Postmodern architecture incorporates symbolic references to classical architectural styles and often look whimsical and kitsch like 110 Davenport Road.
20200414. The only time the Four Seasons Hotel driveway is empty is during a pandemic-induced state of emergency.
20190323. Taking security seriously.
20190306. Another parking garage and a great place for elevated views bites the dust. Yorkville between Bay, Yonge, Yorkville and Cumberland.
20180117. 100 Bloor St W has transformed from the postmodern cliche that was Williams Sonoma to the bulky brutalistic Hermès and most impressive contemporary facade on the Mink Mile.
20170320. 1880s Victorian houses modeled into Yorkville’s York Square (1968), face development pressure to build a 30-storey condo on top.
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.
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.
20161016. Living in luxury atop Toronto’s modern 1960 CIL building.
The office tower is at 130 Bloor Street West while residents enter from the rear at 155 Cumberland St. Although this building is not heritage designated, it is known for the heritage-designated two-storey Torno penthouse on the top floors of the original building. The additional floors were added in 2010.
Addition: Quadrangle Architects Limited
Original: @Bregman + Hamann
Torno Penthouse: Philip Johnson
20160813. A new facade joins a heritage commercial strip on Yorkville’s Scollard Street.
20160710. Toronto’s late modern St. Andrew’s United Church sits hidden near Bloor and Church.
20150528. Construction of the Chaz Condos nears completion creating a chasm on Charles Street.
Photo 20131129. This exposed lattice work at Hazelton Lanes (c.1976) will soon be a memory.
See the potential new design at http://www.retail-insider.com/2013/08/hazelton-lanes-to-renovate-for-luxury.html.
