Awesome endeavour,
@AlexBozikovic. Very excited to read the book. Even just reading this thread and going through my mental catalogue of Toronto architecture has been moderately invigorating. It is also, I think, a reminder that we are privy to some really fantastic architecture despite the obvious (and well founded) griping about the general blandness brought about by the recent condo boom.
On the "since '89" front, unless I've missed prior mention of them in this thread, I'd add:
- Fort York Library
- Bergeron Centre for Engineering Excellence at York (I must just have missed this one in prior comments)
- Terrence Donnelly Health Sciences Complex (also might have been listed already; UTM and UTSC maybe deserve special shout-outs, perhaps as a part of the "outside the core" section? U of T has made a concerted effort and spent a considerable amount of money on its architecture, both inside and outside the core.)
- QRC West
- UTM Innovation Complex (Moriyama & Teshima)
- UTSC Environmental Science and Chemistry Building
- Tableau condos
- Ice condos
- Exhibit condos (obviously, iman-progress, but perhaps spawning another idea for a section of the book: awful condo names)
- Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy building (especially at night)
- Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research
- Parliament Street Data Centre (because even boring uses deserve beautiful architecture)
- MaRS Discovery District both for its magnificent indoor public space and for its adaptive reuse
- Humber Centre for Justice Leadership
- Waterfront wave decks
And on the age-agnostic, "outside the core" front, I'll add:
- R.C. Harris Water Treatment Plant. Visiting really just takes you a world (and a time period) away from Toronto, and it's a literally crucial part of Toronto's history.
- St. Augustine Seminary. Because that dome would look at home in Rome.
- Absolute World condos (apply to both categories, but potentially here in the vein of "see, the suburbs can do density, too, and it can be pretty as hell")
- Humber Bay arch bridge
- Technically not quite out of Yorkville, but I feel like we'd be remiss if not to mention the Toronto Reference Library
- Casa Loma (because how many North American cities have a castle downtown?)
- Brickworks (because the bricks that produced much of our vaunted single family homes came from here and ties nicely into an adaptive reuse thread)?
- Hearn (again, industrial past and adaptive reuse)?
- Royal Canadian Yacht Club island clubhouse (a vestige of Toronto's colonial past and a downright beautiful historical building)?
