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20210318. Eden Smith designed and altered St. Thomas’s Anglican Church (with its interesting massing) in 1892 and 1917. Is the brown octagonal tower the addition?
20200317. Above the Nathan Phillips Square stage.
20210316. The former Polish Combatants Hall (now the Beverley Halls SPK event space) was founded by Polish Army veterns. Wieslaw Wodkiewicz, 1973.
20210315. The simple, elegant and tastefully renovated McCowan Chapel.
20210314. Looking up at Metropolitan Place (1 University Avenue).
20210313. Looking up at the main entrance of the postmodern Rogers corporate campus at Jarvis and Bloor.
20210312. Sheraton Centre Toronto tower in profile.
20210311. The big brutalist boot of Toronto, also known as the Hilton Toronto. Searle, Wilbee and Rowland with Negrin, 1975.
20210310. For a building completed in 1992, Wellesley Jarvis Place has a very brutalist feel to it.
20210309. The 15 McMurrich Street Condos, a late modern residential high-rise with brutalist massing and brick exterior. Dietrick Boecker, 1981.
20210308. Only the braced facades of heritage buildings remain along King St West for the King Toronto mixed use redevelopment.
20210307. This former Nygard property, with its unique postmodern mirrored facades, has been sold as part of a court-ordered receivership for an estimated value of $23 million.
20210306. One facade reflecting another. Atrium on Bay vs. 633 Bay.
20210305. Welcome to the Twin Pines Mobile Home Park.
20210304. Uno Prii’s 1972 666 Spadina Ave is looking spiffy after its recent revitalization.
20210303. The Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular & Biomolecular Research at the University of Toronto (architectsAlliance, 2005).
20210302. Traffic time lapse during a break in the rehabilitation of the Gardiner Expressway (Summer 2020).
20210301. The rear of Massey College is almost as interesting as the front with its architectural massing.
20210228. The top addition (1966) to the former Shell Oil Building (1958) starts above the ornamental floor.
20210227. One of Peter Caspari’s 67 year old City Park Co-op buildings, part of the first modern multi-building apartment complex in Toronto.
20210226. Pink postmodern townhouses in the Garden District with that second empire look.
20210225. Looking through an empty commercial space at Hydro Place among reflections of stone on carpet and Orde Street.
20210224. At the Government of Ontario ziggurat (222 Jarvis), one will find four ministries.
20210223. The construction office at 19 Duncan is mounted directly to the facade support structure.
