We are observing small portion of the city of Toronto, sights are related to the architectural ambient of the area on the map bellow.
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Quite nice mural of the built environment around us.
This one in the One Yonge Community Recreation Centre].
The other sight is the corner of King and Church Streets.
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This our favourite part of the waterfont area.
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Looking first down, tiny - tiny houses for our homeless neighbours
and then look up for the rest of us.
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Continue looking up and in the distance. Behavioural economics calls it
"choice architecture": The spaces around us shape how we live. When our
surroundings nudge us away from nature, our bodies and minds bear the cost.
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Climate grief is the collective emotional response to ecological loss and an increasingly uncertain future. It's not a personal flaw; it's a system warning light. In Canada, over 65% of people now say extreme weather is a personal concern. Rising heat, floods, and wildfires already strain healthcare, infrastructure, and insurance; sectors we all
depend on. Climate grief reminds us that when ecosystems are shaken,
so are the foundations of our shared lives.
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Different sights now, old power plant converted to the art museum.
[The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery] + nearby restaurant.
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Urban landscape photography is about understanding the language of the city and translating that to an image that can communicate a story. Street Art is one of the most important aspects of the ambient improvements => and one of the Early Warning Signs
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School of architecture is where we are learning how to make Toronto "Eiffel Tower".
Department of Architectural Science at the Toronto Metropolitan University.
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Left is sweet "Sugar Factory" and on the right "not so sweet" high-rise factory.
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This Hub in Cherry Street including the new home of Anishnawbe Health Toronto, the Miziwe Biik Training Institute, a childcare and family centre operated by the City of Toronto and the Canary House mixed-use condominium building.
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Anishnawbe Square and a restored Canary heritage building are more obvious on these images. A separate purpose-built rental building is being developed by Dream, Kilmer and Tricon Residential.
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New St. Lawrence North Market was opened in April, 2025. To soon to know if it is really accepted by the neighbourhood.
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Old St. Lawrence Market is having very long storry behind [check it out].
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Corner of George Street, named after King George III, and King Street.
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Two St. James Cathedrals on the same corner location (?????).
Only one abandoned silo in the Ireland Park.
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Aga Khan Museum is having it own story => Visual or informative =>
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Toronto Islands, not much to talk about before you experience it, for now few visuals.
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Very soon I am promising special psychogeography observational walk over there.
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View to the city from the island ferry towards sugar factory only factory left on the waterfront. Sight in the brand new Biidaasige Park (meaning “sunlight shining toward us” in Anishinaabemowin/Ojibwemowin).
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Globally around 56% of the world’s population resides in cities – that’s around 4.4 billion people! This makes it quite likely that this photo is taken in an urban area.
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King Street is always picturesque specially downtown.
Other sight is in U of T area, Isabel Bather Theatre.
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Urban landscape photography is complex and rewarding, it allows you to explore
and capture the beauty and complexity of the human-made environment
and the stories within.
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Our favourite street in the city, The Esplanade. Equally pleasant in the winter or summer. Check our <psycho>geography> portrait of The Esplanade.
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Over years I was doing lot of those freehand illustrations of houses in Toronto, for various magazines and books. Today I am calling them collectively "Portrait of the city".
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Few are enlarged here, few others you can find in our illustrations portfolio.
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Limberlost Place, a 10-storey mass-timber, net-zero
building, is a new location of George Brown College. In April 2018,
it was announced that the winner of an international design competition
is the team of Moriyama Teshima Architects and Acton Ostry Architects.
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Flat Iron Building was in the middle of Old Town Toronto,
today it is lost among downtown condominiums. It is still
the most photographed sight in the whole city of Toronto.
This red-brick building was completed in 1892.
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Flat Iron Building is in the process of renovation. In November 2025 new rooftop is peaking, copper is still golden, not turned green yet, that will happen soon.
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The Church of St Peter and St Simon-the-Apostle, Toronto The Anglican congregation is located on Bloor Street. St. Simon’s church was started in 1884.
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01. View from Love Park toward Harbour Street.
02. Corner of Berkeley and King Streets.
... and this is called "Old Town Toronto"???
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Berkeley and The Esplanade, view from the soccer field.
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Two city views, first one from Ellington Avenue, near Serbian Consulate, second one with CN Tower and Toronto Aquarium behind us, two grandkids and Nana at the front.
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Roofs, most of the time invisible, deserve its spot in this collection.
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Switch your view down now and here you are, save old structure in the Brickworks. Let's go home now, can you guess where this is?
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Left photo is view from the 32nd floor at 33 Harbour Square building,
first condominium built along Toronto Harbour in 1973. Very last photo
on the right above is my favourite one. It was taken at the Bay St. exit from
architect Calatrava's fabulous passage, Brookfield Place.

This is only one named: "We are down they are above".
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Brand new, One Yonge Community Recreation Centre, favourite spot for the dance classes of our youngest granddaughter.
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Queens Quay East, view towards Pier 27, condominiums on the shore of Lake Ontario from the new, still unnamed park.
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Even when we are attending event that requires your constant attention, like Santa Claus Parade in this instance, lot of the people are recording it for the future consumption, immediate observation was saved for some later time.
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Most research on the environmental impact of buildings focuses on new construction, but growing interest in the circular economy has shown that renovating existing buildings can also be a valuable way to provide additional housing while maximizing the use of existing.
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Urban architecture focuses on how buildings interact with their surroundings, including streets, public spaces, nature and other living organisms. This involves considering factors like scale, materials, historical context, environment and climate.
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Toronto with almost 10 million people in the metropolitan area is of course an excellent example of POSTMETROPOLIS. As globalization is a compression of the world and intensification of consciousness of the world as a whole, global city-regions are focusing their attention on the “rights to the city” and the “history of the present”. 
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My artwork above is reflecting what I think. In 2006 we visited la Biennale di Venezia, 10. Mostra Internazionale di Architettura. Following quote from the catalog is describing even better situation that most of the cities in the world are facing: "Cities nowadays are increasingly being planned and designed by everyone except architects, resulting in an endless culture of sprawl. The days of universal urban models belong to the past, but there are no new models to replace them. While contemporary urbanisation is being mapped, researched, edited, and branded by architects, the way in which the discipline of architecture could prevent the city from further disintegration is being neglected."
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This is it for now, 79 photos, November 20, 2025. Come back for something else.
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Here it is, new one added on March 29, 2026, YES or NO?