Boy, did Libeskind ever screw this one up.

Welcome to your grand civic theatre/credit union branch

One of the city’s great buildings, despite everything that’s been done to it

The @StLawrenceCtrTo, now threatened.

Some relic cast-iron! 53 Yonge St.

The Lumsden Building, John Mackenzie, 1909. Edwardian classical goes through the K-hole, in concrete.

Hello @ONheritage

The castle of Confederation Life.

It really is empty down here, though less so than a few weeks ago when I was last here. And, hey, everybody might be in the PATH, who knows

I should explain this thread here: this is a selective tour of Toronto’s financial district, as I go looking for particular things in order to revise @Toronto_Arch

Another butchered Peter Dickinson, Bay & Richmond

It really was butchery to replace the Carrera marble on Ed Stone’s @FirstCanadianPl with glass

Mies + tactical urbanism

Thank you, Phyllis.

As good as TD is.. I think I now love Pei’s Commerce Court best

Really a magnificent complex, made better by its respect for the 1929 Bank of Commerce building

The west side of the 1929 building, shown here, was originally a party wall. Pei’s office designed this new elevation.

The lower buildings, faced in limestone, are now approved for demolition for a new complex by @HaririPontarini. I was receptive to that proposal, and more and more, I think I got it wrong.

WZMH’s Royal Bank Plaza, 1977, with gold in the glass. Cc @HawthorneCDOLA

Greed... is good.

Canada’s 2016 Venice Biennale entry, #extractionempire, took this as the perfect symbol of an economy built on resource extraction.

The Calatrava / Mövenpick Cathedral

One of the Bay Street Deco towers. Chapman & Oxley, 1929.

And a funny detail to close: when @KohnPedersenFox designed this EY Tower for @OxfordPropGroup, and taxidermied the best Deco skyscraper in town, they moved some brick ornament from the top to the rear end. Concourse Building, Baldwin & Greene, 1928-2016.