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    Toronto Toronto | College Park Revitalization with Barbara Ann Scott Skate Trail | ?m | ?s | City of Toronto | RAW Design

    The 'tent' is back. But grey and split up into multiple parts... (technically I guess this isn't part of the park, but close enough)
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    Residence College Hotel new Lecture Hall (90 Gerrard St. W, 2s, DSAI)

    Welcome to downtown Toronto's newest surface parking lot.
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    Recreating the Metro (Adult) Theatre 677 Bloor St W

    This post suggests that the theatre is presently 'being gutted to make way for a rock climbing gym'. Anyone know more about this? (I assume it would be a bouldering gym given the building's short height)
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    Toronto Toronto | Aura at College Park | 271.87m | 78s | Canderel | Graziani + Corazza

    I pass by this tower every day and while I've gotten used to it my opinion has only cemented regarding Aura: it's good from afar, but far from good. Yes, it's tall, but that doesn't excuse the mediocre mishmash. Could have been so much better looking. And we're stuck with it. Oh well, that's...
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    Toronto Toronto | Fort York Visitor Centre | ?m | 2s | Fort York Foundation | Patkau

    I attended the opening reception for the Visitor Centre this evening and took a few snaps. Overall I think the space is lovely, and it is the culmination of literally decades of effort and persistence bringing the facility into reality. The one part I had qualms about was the 'immersive ramp' in...
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    Toronto Toronto | Aura at College Park | 271.87m | 78s | Canderel | Graziani + Corazza

    Interesting perspective. Blue hour shuffle by tomms, on Flickr
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    Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

    I happened to have spent time tracking down the institutional attribution of the first photo. It is "Aerial view of the Canadian National Railways yard in downtown Toronto. Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 1951". It's held at the Canada Science and Technology Museum, Ottawa: CN002868 A decent...
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    The Esplanade 1907

    A comparative map to the 1913 one is this "1945 Toronto Terminals Railway: Toronto Viaduct - Plan of Trackage between Don Station & Bathurst Jct AS CONSTRUCTED" It shows (more or less) the apex of railway construction across the foot of Toronto.
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    650 Bay St Boutique Hotel Redevelopment (Lanterra, ?s, ?)

    Thought I'd cap off this thread now that the hotel is operational, with a few links: - A super-light overview of the project, with some pictures pre-reno (kind of a refresher if you don't want to look back through this whole thread) - a review of the hotel, with interior photos. (blogto) - and...
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    Toronto skyline

    Some nice aerials recently posted to r/uoft: http://imgur.com/a/X9HSo#3
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    Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

    Someone posted this on r/toronto the other day, with the amusing title, "Construction on River and Gerrard is taking a LONG time": (I didn't see it here so sorry if this is a repeat)
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    Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

    A view from outside the Toronto Harbour Commission building looking southwestish, 2014 vs 1919. Image courtesy TPA.
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    Section 37 benefits review

    There appears to have been a database created here. It's not posted (nor is it clear how up to date it is) but perhaps you could contact the authors... (their contact form explicitly mentions "request a copy of [...] individual ward statistics"]
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    Rare Maps of Toronto

    I'm delighted to share an exciting new online project by Chris Olsen, called the Toronto Historic Maps viewer (although I didn't work on it I had an oblique role in its creation -- see link below). It's an interactive map that allows you to pan around and zoom in and out of various historical...
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    Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

    A friend of mine showed me these spectacular shots of the Hearn generating station today. So otherworldly! What a titan of industrial oomph! If I'm not mistaken that black area is a big pile of coal. Look at Toronto's skyline in this shot: Unfortunately I don't have a plane with...
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    Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

    In case anyone wants to read the Fife and Drum, here’s a link to that issue. Some of the back issue articles are great resources for understanding what life was like in early York.
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    The Plague of EIFS

    An example of two building fronts getting smoothed over... [sorry this isn't EIFS, just thematically similar] compare to: present view I guess it doesn't matter since that whole block might get turned into a mall anyway.
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    Rob Ford's Toronto

    Additional historical context may be of interest to some here. Others have noted that Nathan Phillips was Jewish. Prior to Phillips, to be a real candidate for mayor of Toronto you had to be a member of the Orange Order. This is chronicled in this article by Jamie Bradburn on the downfall of...
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    Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

    The 1912 TPL pic has a corresponding catalogue entry, which indicates "House occupied by Coulson in late 1840's. At time of photograph, occupied by Patrick Burns." Interestingly, the TPL also has a cropped version of the CTA 1923 pic. Its catalogue entry reads: "A half-tone block after the...
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    Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

    Minor tangent: the Coulson house was inhabited at the time of this photo by Patrick Burns, a wood/coal merchant whose name graced the busy coal yard just down the street at Front and Bathurst (east side).

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