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Johnny Au
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December 25, 2025:
Yonge and St. Clair:
Yonge and St. Clair:
SkylineHorizons
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Love that park, it's such a great vantage point to take photos of the city from. Here's a bunch I took from earlier in the year that I didn't get around to posting
3Dementia
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Lush-ious shots @SkylineHorizons
jer1961
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Photos taken today, Boxing Day (Dec. 26). Certainly not the day to go out and take photos... But some interesting shots nevertheless. Nothing new on the tower since I posted a week ago, everything looks status quo. Though I might have missed something through the blizzard...
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One Bloor West (The One) construction
Photos of One Bloor West (The One) construction progress, including a "before" shot from 2011 and several from 2015 after the demolition of Stollery's. Notable for becoming Canada's first supertall building, i.e., over 300 metres (985 feet) tall. (The CN Tower does not fall under the definition...
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One Bloor West (The One) "time-lapse"
From October, 2020, as above-ground construction started in earnest at The One (1 Bloor W.) in Toronto. More or less a weekly photo usually taken on a Friday, with some gaps during early-on construction hiatuses. The initial photographs are from 2015, during demolition at the site, 2018, during...
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CanadianNational
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I used to live at 40 Homewood Avenue, right downtown. It was a standard 70's rectangular slab, about thirty floors, not too thick and rather broad - like a waffle standing on its side.
The building didn't give off a perceptible vibration too often, but after a good gusty night, I'd wake up to find a lot of the framed pictures hanging in my apartment all askew on the walls.
There actually was a quake in the late 90's or early 2000's that caused the building to sway. It woke me out of the nap into full unexplained anxiety. It was when I stood up and saw the edge of the balcony concrete moving slightly, slowly, relative to the view eastward out the window I had a 'moment'! The building settled very slightly after that. Doors and their frames, the lines where the ceiling met the wall, were both off by a few degrees. Long, shallow dips appeared along the length of the inner hallways, between presumably thicker cross beams beneath. The most visible aspects of all the setttling seemed to fade after eight years or so.
That was new to me. That, and the concrete suddenly adjusting in the structure to the freeze-thaw cycles. I don't know if it was expansion joints (or the lack of them), but the concrete would suddenly snap to with a deep alarming bang every now and then. Fun fun. No complaints though. It was a solid, well-built, well-enduring building.
Johnny Au
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December 27, 2025:
Bedford and Bloor:
Bedford and Bloor:
CanadianNational
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Walking eastward on Bloor from around Bedford, it's pleasing to see the diagonals of 1BW working as a visual companion to the ROM Crystal.
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Rascacielo
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Today
C-mac
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Came across this clip on youtube:
A Torontonian Now
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A bit late, but here's one taken Dec 14:
Rascacielo
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Speaking of YouTube, I watched a video today on Top 10 (Global) Megaprojects Completing in 2026. This project was included, along with the likes of the new metro expansion in Paris and a new nuclear plant in the UK. While I love this building, it’s a stretch to include construction of a single tower as a megaproject, especially when the other projects cover much larger areas and/or involve construction of multiple buildings and infrastructure. I’d like to think the content creator is a proud Torontonian, but I doubt it, as they still called it ‘The One’ (FYI the video is only 3 days old).
Torontomapleleafs
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Can someone please build something larger than One World Trade Centre in Toronto so we can claim the title of largest skyscraper in the Western Hemisphere.
