20221203. Randomly lit windows set the Couture Condominium (Bloor/Jarvis) apart from neighbouring high-rises on a foggy night. From 2015.
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20220610. The remaining Inn on the Park building (1971) at Eglinton and Leslie stands in a half demolished state (from 2014).
20150111. A thick fog lends an eerie perspective to Toronto’s waterfront.
20150110. Randomly lit windows set the Couture Condominium (Bloor/Jarvis) apart from neighbouring high-rises on a foggy night.
20150109. This pedestrian bridge leads to the impressive facade of the Value Park Garage from Pearson Airport’s Terminal Link Train Viscount Station.
20150108. An seemingly suspended set of screens shows flight arrival information at Pearson Airport’s Terminal 1 Arrivals deck.
20140107. Slats beneath ramps. Terminal 1, Toronto Pearson International Airport. Minimal Aesthetic 47.
20150106. Approach Toronto’s international airport on the new Union Pearson Express later this year.
20140105. Dirty vent covers and bright barriers in contrasting yellows at Lawrence West station. Minimal Aesthetic 46
20150104. A south view of Toronto’s Lawrence West subway station. Opened in 1978 in the median of Allen Road, it remains impressive.
Dunlop Farrow Aitken Architects.
For a north view of the station, go to http://vikpahwa.com/uncategorized/photo-20121027-lawrence-west-station-and-allen-road-from-one-bridge-south/
20150102. Toronto’s Yorkdale Shopping Centre expansion construction site is so massive that four cranes are required.
This year, the Yorkdale Shopping Centre is 50 years old.
You can see what this area looked like shortly after the demolition of the Yorkdale subway commuter parkade at https://www.flickr.com/photos/vikpahwa/12895379454/
20150101. With the new year upon us, it’s time for a little perspective. Happy 2015 and thanks for looking!
20141231. This grade-separated track replaces the railway junction after which Toronto’s Junction hood is named.
Now that trains no longer need to wait to cross the junction, GO Transit regional commuter trains as well as the soon to be implemented Union Station – Pearson International Airport Express train will run faster with more efficient scheduling.
20141229. The remaining Inn on the Park building (c.1971) at Eglinton and Leslie in Toronto stands in a half demolished state.
According to the Progreen Demolition website, this is one of the highest buildings (25 storeys) ever demolished in the GTA. The first Inn on the Park building, a modernist structure by architect Peter Dickinson was demolished in 2006.
20141228. The sky’s the limit at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.
20141126. Gawking at Delta Toronto’s stunning hotel lobby from the second floor on opening day.
20141122. Reflections in the Aga Khan Museum’s courtyard.
20141112. The 1984-heritage-listed art deco Mayfair Mansions in South Hill, Toronto (Architect HC Roberts, c.1931).
20141111. The entrance to Bloor Station on Toronto’s future downtown-to-airport express train is taking shape.
20141109. The 1913 neo-gothic terra-cotta-clad 299 Queen St W, Toronto.
20141107. The tall, narrow and not-so-blue CrystalBlu condos (21 Balmuto) offer a clear view down Toronto’s Hayden Street.
20141105. Living the high-life in mixed-income Regent Park (Paintbox Condos left; 252 Sackville Toronto Community Housing right).
20141101. The curves of Toronto’s Union Station streetcar platform are a familiar sight once again.
20141030. The empty, decaying yet classical modernist Duke of York public school (c.1958) in Toronto’s Regent Park.
The property on which this former Toronto District School Board school sits has been purchased by the Toronto Catholic District School Board. Due to its bad state of repair, it will most likely be demolished.
20141027. Soon to be the last of 5 1958 modernist high-rises in Toronto’s Regent Park, will this empty building’s heritage status save it?
