Architectural Drawings Toronto

[thecharioteer]

Proposed designs for the Bank of Toronto Building:

The scale of the Gouinlock proposal is quite astounding, which even includes a dome reminiscent of McKim, Mead and White's Bank of Montreal in Montreal (modelled on the Pantheon). There really is something so extraordinary about the drawings from this era.

Brooklyn Institute for Arts and Sciences 1893 (McKim, Mead & White):

Winnipeg:

Montreal:

Toronto:

 

[Earlscourt_Lad]

When I get some free time in the shop, I think I'm going to build a replica of these Don Jail windows. Great drawings, and a great thread, by the way.

 

[wwwebster]

 

[thecharioteer]

Wonder if this unnamed building was the original design for the Lumsden Building at Yonge & Adelaide?

 

[wwwebster]

Masonic Temple, Yonge & Davenport:

Images from the September 1918 issue of “Construction.â€

http://archive.org/stream/constructionjour11macduoft#page/274/mode/2up

 

[thecharioteer]

Very creative in the way the architect used the rounded corner for the staircase.

 

[thecharioteer]

New York side trip:

 

[thecharioteer]

The most beautiful house in the world? Richard Neutra's Lovell House, Los Angeles, 1929:

 

[Goldie]

Thank you for those images of NY buildings, thecharioteer.
I found the comparison of these two newspaper buildings quite interesting.

 

[thecharioteer]

And with the Bank of Commerce Building, Goldie:

 

[wwwebster]

Images from the January 1917 issue of “Construction.â€

http://archive.org/stream/constructionjour10macduoft#page/n5/mode/2up

 

[spider]

When did scale models of new buildings that are so ubiquitous today begin to supplement artistic illustrations in the promotion of new construction?

 

[thecharioteer]

When did scale models of new buildings that are so ubiquitous today begin to supplement artistic illustrations in the promotion of new construction?

Good question, spider. Scale models have been used since the days of Christopher Wren. I think that the big transition in drawings began mid-90's, when watercolour renderings began to be superceded by computer-generated imagery.

Sir Chistopher Wren's model of St. Paul's:

Hawksmoor's model of the Radcliffe Camera at Oxford:

Lutyen's model of Liverpool Cathedral:

 

[Goldie]

Has new construction begun on that site of the abandoned Kodak plant? Photos??

 

[wwwebster]