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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)

Welcome to downtown Toronto's newest surface parking lot.

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)

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...

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...

Interesting perspective. Blue hour shuffle by tomms, on Flickr

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...

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.

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...

Some nice aerials recently posted to r/uoft: http://imgur.com/a/X9HSo#3

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)

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

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"]

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...

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...