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20210209. A postmodern building gets ready to bite the dust. Sometimes demolition is a good thing!
20210208. Scotia Plaza Tower Grid.
20210207. Frost Building North and South, a landmark of modern office building architecture in Canada.
20210206. With the reconstructed Kipling Station Passenger Pick-up building including a much needed elevator, it no longer has that open feeling of the original building.
20210205. The Theory Condos, a well-crafted and plausible place to live.
20210204. The Government of Ontario’s Whitney Block is wearing a scaffolding and tarp dress.
20210203. Partial demolition of the original Maclean Publishing Company building (Sproatt & Rolph, 1911) rear on Centre Street has left only the once striking buttresses standing.
20210202. The anatomy of construction at 75 The Esplanade.
20210201. Want to shoot a movie at an airport? Well TriBro Studios has just what you need at the Toronto Pearson International Airport.
20210131. Crossing the Red Line.
20210130. Peering through steel bridge piers across the West Don River.
20210129. A clutter of street lights.
20210128. 777 Bay Street gleams at dusk. Webb Zerafa Menkes (now WZMH Architects), 1983.
20210127. Light-induced diamonds in the subway.
20210126. Remembering the Riverdale Hospital in its 50th year and just as demolition was beginning (July 2013). Chapman & Hurst, 1963.
20210125. Glencairn Station has a new skylight system, a reimagination of the original skylight panels by artist Rita Letendre that were removed due to water damage.
20210124. Parking under the overpass at Lawrence East Station.
20210123. Manulife in Monochrome.
20210122. Get some tasty tandoori or sell cash for gold at this postmodern scarborough strip mall.
20210121. The Great Wall of Queens Quay provides a sound barrier between Redpath Sugar and the Pier 27 Condos.
20210120. The open air pavilion in St James Park was inspired by the Gothic arches of the neighbouring St. James Cathedral.
20210119. 93 years later, Loblaws is open once again at Bathurst and Lakeshore but as a grocery store not the former Loblaw head office and warehouse.
20210118. Under the guise of accelerating construction for affordable housing, the Province has commenced demolition of the heritage-listed 1917-1929 Dominion Wheel and Foundries Company Buildings in the Canary District without the requisite paperwork. Help Friends of the Foundry save the building by signing their petition at https://bit.ly/3oY0Tti.
20210117. Late afternoon beyond the Western Channel.
