The Temple Building, Bay & Richmond, 9/19/65 from the Toronto Star archives in the TPL:

Peter Street (now Blue Jay Way) looking south at Front Street 1972: Today: Looking NW: 1972: Looking NE 1972: Today:

True, the paths are relatively new, but from a landscape design point of view (materiality, widths, layout, seating) they're not really well done (again I make the comparison to the work DTAH did at St. Andrew's Playground with its paving materials, patterns, variety of seating and lighting)...

Clarence Square really needs a total revitalization similar to what was done in St. Andrew's Playground. It's in very sad shape with regards to paving, pathways fencing, etc. and is not really a welcoming space to linger (which has helped encourage the encampments seen in the above pics)...

What is the "extra mile" that you are referring to at 55 Mercer? I believe it is also window wall....

They do. look at Northern Light's pic of the west façade from last week.

Yonge & Adelaide 1950, decked over for the construction of the subway. Note the Arcade Building on the right, which would be demolished in late 1954 after two fires: Today:

Not sure if this helps. It's dated "circa 1930" and shows two arches (also one of my favourite pics in the archives showing both the Temple Building and the original tower of the Confederation Life Building):

What is now the Rexall at Eglinton and Chiltern (seen in the second pic)was once a Power store until about the 70's and the brand eventually got melded into the Loblaws chain: One block east was the Nortown Theatre, demolished in the 70's:

Yonge and Gerrard: 1950: Today:

Reviving this thread with one of my favourite paintings of Toronto, "Lights of a City Street" painted by Frederick Marlett Bell-Smith in 1894: Owned by HBC, here is a description from their web-site: Lights of a City Street is an incredible view of the intersection of King and Yonge...

The original Four Seasons at 415 Jarvis, opened in 1961 and demolished in the 1980's.

They actually can. $1.0M in cash was given to Massey Hall by MOD Developments (in addition to the land donation) as part of the Massey Tower development and secured in the S.37 agreement. All it takes is some creative thinking by those involved (including the planners and Councillor).

Not sure where the S.37 money was allocated from the 60 and 88 Queen projects but revitalizing the green space around the Metropolitan would have been nice.

Metropolitan Church (Queen & Church): 1910: Reconstruction after the fire of 1929: 1960's: 2022 (photo by ADRM on the 88 Queen thread):

Here's an illustration that was done in 2014 seeing how Vimy Circle would have looked today if it had been built. Though inaccurate in a number of ways, it's a great illustration: https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2014/01/26/the_five_greatest_ideas_toronto_never_built.html

When University Avenue was extended south from Queen in the early 1930's, it bisected the block bounded by King/Adelaide/Simcoe and York and went right through 186-188 King Street West, photographed on January 28, 1931: The block and its land values at the time: Today:

So true. Unfortunately, the destruction of the historic core was so gradual, building by building, through demolition by neglect, modernist planning theories, changing tastes that looked at these buildings as "old-fashioned" and a shift of civic energy further north (notwithstanding that the...