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You seem to have your 'over-react' settings at (too) high today.
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Goldie
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Yonge St., looking north from south of Adelaide St. 1900 TPL
EVENT: The fall of Pretoria was celebrated in Toronto on 30 May (prematurely) and 5 June 1900.
EVENT: The fall of Pretoria was celebrated in Toronto on 30 May (prematurely) and 5 June 1900.
pman
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Goldie
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King St. East, looking east from Yonge St. 1873 TPL
steveintoronto
Superstar
145 years ago....it boggles the senses.
lenaitch
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It looks like those barrels are a mid-block construction barrier for something going on down the road - faintly in the background. I wonder if they needed a permit for that back then.
Goldie
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Looking N-E towards Reford Building under construction, Bay St., N-E corner Wellington St. W. 1923 TPL
Goldie
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Edith Lamb and Gavin Browne wedding, Winchester St., north side, west of Sumach St. Oct. 21, 1914 TPL
jje1000
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Architectural erosion as I (or more perhaps Steward Brand) refer to it- the smaller, more fragile/replaceable things that are integral to the design like windows, storefronts and cornices reach their end-of-life and are replaced, but the majority tastes of the society that does the replacing have changed, meaning that the original architectural intent is no longer followed. In some cases it's one fell swoop (in name of modernization), in others erosion by a thousand little cuts.
It's not unsimilar like how Gothic cathedrals cycled through different styles as they were built and renovated, except contemporary society no longer has a single style, and has forgotten largely how to design old buildings- hence erosion. Ironically, it's happening even now to Modernist and Brutalist structures.
More so, technological change, economics and skill erosion means that alternatives to the original materials may be sought- and because the original architectural intent has already been disregarded, some of these become accepted methods of renovation even if they go entirely against the design of the building (see EIFs).
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Goldie
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Toronto downtown 1928 ..........Royal York Hotel and Toronto Star buildings under construction..............City Hall Clock Tower is one of the few tall structures................Photo by Gordon Jarrett
Goldie
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Toronto Rail Lands c.1930
vic
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This looks like an early "Critical Mass" bike ride, complete with bike-raised-over-head.
Bogtrotter
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Another aerial of the big smoke circa 1953.
Photo: Bill Thomson
Photo: Bill Thomson
W. K. Lis
Superstar
It was the "smoke" from coal furnaces and boilers that caused the building to get their dark exteriors.
Blovertis
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Not a lot changed on the skyline between 1930 and 1953. Not long after that ... everything changed.