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Lesser recognized buildings in Toronto that you enjoy

I love these dutch gable semi-detached homes on Sullivan Street near the AGO. I always make an effort to walk by them when I'm walking through the area.

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No overcladding, no replacing original balustrades with tinted glass panels.
This right here. Such a rarity to see apartments from this era properly restored, I wish more property owners could see their potential. A 1960s/70s brick building near my office was recently re-clad in a horrifying two-tone pale blue and grey EIFS combo that I can only describe as prison-like.
 
145 Adelaide.

It's a curious little doodad, but it cheers me up somehow. Partly, I think, because it's so incongruous and wee, surrounded by giants.
It manages to hold it's own, though, through a dab of solid ostentation.

A UTF member, Jeff Low put a post up about it in 2011. It's from this post I got the 'before' pic.

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From the curvilinearity to the perforated brick balcony blocks, it owes a fair bit to this

 
“So much money gets spent on it, but the incremental cost of adding architecture is relatively small. It’s an easy way for cities to make themselves more beautiful.”

This quote right here, this needs to be the message front and centre every time bad design or value engineering rears its ugly head. I've always thought that there's no excuse for all the bland, banal and cheap new construction in this city; these buildings already have millions, if not hundreds of millions invested into them. We should be demanding better design in everywhere, from private residential developments to our civic buildings and spaces.

I know this quote is from 3 years ago but love it and wanted to bring it forward. It's a great quote.
 
Various buildings at U of T


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A couple old walk up apartments at Lonsdale & Lawton (near St. Clair & Yonge)

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Central Toronto Academy (Central Commerce)

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737 Kingston Road

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Bruce Public School in the Leslieville area

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28 Broadway Ave

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Old walk up at College & Havelock

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On Huron Street south of College

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"The East Room" at Carroll & Matilda in the Riverside area

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