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.
