20250926. Say goodbye to the 1929 Crystal Gardens (or Maitland Arms) at 110 Maitland Street which has been vacant for six years. Architect Herbert Charles Roberts.
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20250925. The Brutalist Bay – now only the birds visit.
20250924. A pair of modernist office buildings with white striped concrete facades. 1100 and 1110 Sheppard Avenue East.
20250923. Up and Through.
20250922. Slab Tower Lines.
20250921. Looking up on Charles.
20250920. Is there an art deco echo here? Pairs of office buildings in business parks IV.
20250919. Blue and green. Pairs of office buildings in business parks III.
20250918. As The Bay’s sun has set, here’s The Bay at sunset.
20250917. Horizontals.. Office buildings in business parks II.
20250916. What a pair. Office buildings in business parks I.
20250915. I love the blank brick end walls of townhouses. BTW, North York is home to Toronto’s best townhouse complexes.
20250914. The Oaks of Avondale.
20250913. A postmodern reflection of the sky.
20250912. The unique and impressive Lambton Arena.
20250911. Gas meter wall.
20250910. Douglas Coupland’s colourful cones in Emerald City, Parkway Forest, North York, Toronto.
20250909. Steel structural frame at Dundas and Jane.
20250908. X marks the spot where a change has been proposed. This building will be retained for a two tower hotel between Camden and Richmond.
20250907. POMO IN Scarborough VI. The postmodern office complex.
20250906. POMO in Scarborough V. When the tallest building in the area has a pyramid on top.
20250905. We’ll return to POMO shortly. Here’s a mid century modern apartment building in Islington, Etobicoke, Toronto with a zigzag entrance canopy and fountain featuring a mermaid riding a merhorse fighting a spitting clam.
20250904. POMO in Scarborough IV. Toronto Police Service 42 Division has brutalist massing, art deco lines but postmodern columns, shutters and the little pyramidal hat.
20250903 LVI. POMO in Scarborough III – 39 Kimbercroft and its detached facades and circular end towers in glass.
20250902. POMO in Scarborough II. Another shot of the former Yellow Pages Group Tower (1990) in Malvern West but perpendicular to the sun along the parking lot walkway.
