Images
20201217. St. Charles Garnier Church front and rear, Hamilton.
20201216. Remembering the old GO Transit concourse at Union Station (1979) and one of its nicest design elements – the doors.
20201215. The vacant Toronto Hydro transformer substation at 281 Cherry Street is a modest example of Edwardian Classical styling from 1928.
20201214. St Philip Neri Catholic Church (1959) with its four oddly placed barrel shapes out front with stucco covered brick. Might they be confessionals?
20201213. After 17 years of operation, the old $9 000 000 GO Bus Terminal at 141 Bay Street is being demolished.
20201212. The new Storm Water Quality Facility (SWQF) at Lake Shore and Cherry to treat urban run-off from new West Don Lands development.
220201211. Looking West from the Cherry Street Bridge at the mouth of the Ship Channel in the rapidly changing Port Lands.
20201210. Smokestack. The decommissioned Richard L. Hearn Thermal Generating Station has no fence keeping urban explorers away.
20201209. With mobile gantry cranes parked and no girders to be seen, it seems that Phase 1 of the Gardiner Expressway Rehabilitation from Jarvis to Cherry Streets is just about done.
20201208. Capturing the past and the future of Toronto’s Port Lands (Don Mouth Naturalization Project by Waterfront Toronto).
20201207. The new Union Station bus terminal is now open but there isn’t much to see. It’s as bland as the new GO Train concourse and the boarding area is not visible to the public.
20201206. Looking up at the cast iron glass dome at Toronto’s Allan Gardens Conservatory Palm House.
20201205. Deer Park United Church Cross Section.
20201204. The only similarity between the Chaz Condos and the 1966 Macy Dubois gem that it replaced is the octagonal shape of both buildings.
20201203. Beauty in coarse, grooved, poured-in-place concrete.
20201202. St. Charles Garnier Church rear, Hamilton.
20201201. The corroded but certainly once classy King William Court apartments.
20201130. The Colonnade was the first modern mixed use building in the city. Gerald Robinson and Tampold Wells Architects, 1964.
20201129. Looking up at Pittsburgh’s United Steelworkers Building (Curtis & Davis, 1963). With its steel diamond lattice exoskeleton and solid central core, no interior columns are needed.
20201128. An industrial ruin in Hamilton.
20201127. The A.N. Bourns Science Building, McMaster University.
20201126. Jail is a brutalist place to be. Jail II, Justice Center Complex, Cleveland, Robert P. Madison International, 1995.
20201125. Hamilton’s brutalist hospital.
20201124. Georgian Symmetry.
