A thread of downtown Yonge Street, as part of @Toronto_Arch research. First, Second Empire: The Irish Embassy/originally the Bank of British North America 😆. Henry Langley 1874/Burke & Horwood 1903. The entry was moved from south to west. 1/ 
Massey Tower @HaririPontarini meets Darling & Pearson 1905, E.J. Lennox 1905. #torontoarch #yongestreet 2/
The Ryrie Building, Burke Horwood & White, 1914. @ERAarch renos. 4/
An oddity: Edwardian loft in the (originally Georgian) streetscspe. Art Metropole building, Mitchell & White, 1911. 5/
Originally a Childs Restaurant. John Westervelt, 1918. (Any New Yorkers remember Childs?) 6/
John Lyle doing “modernized Italian,” 1921. 7/
Here’s your @snohetta, and pita. 8/
The reverse view, with the seriously inaccessible ramp. And that mirrored glass behemoth is Atrium on Bay, Page & Steele 1983, which does have quite the atrium. 9/
Deco Former Scotiabank, Yonge/Dundas 10/
Now the Arts & Letters Club. A fave Toronto preservationist hangout. Originally St. George’s Hall, bastion of Britishness. Edwards & Webster 1891. 11/
John Lyle’s Canadian Deco. Farmers and lake freighters. Dominion Bank 1930. Now a dispensary. 12/
Ah, Aura. Just a staggeringly bad building, now with stained precast. 13/
Next door, College Park. I‘ve trashed the thing on Twitter more than once already. 14/ https://t.co/ieH1lxCVo7
College Park, the building. Ross & Macdonald, 1930. A magnificent stub. 15/
And this, well. @GCarchitects @CanderelRes return with a sequel to Aura. @YCcondos. It’s even worse. In the foreground, an Oddfellows Hall, Dick & Wickson 1892. 16/
Someone thought red spandrel would speak to the neighbouring heritage building. I suppose. 17/
The absolute unrelenting shoddiness of this street front deserves its own tweet. 18/
This tower dates from an 1872 firehall. The site later housed the St. Charles Tavern, a landmark of queer Toronto. Tower to be folded into a new condo 19/
Clover Condos, @_archAlliance_ with @ERAarch. That faux brick building, marking the old site of @barvolo, is not convincing. 20/
The Ontario coroner’s office, Ludlow Fleury 1975. 21/
There was a good concrete canopy here. Someone has tampered with the body! 22/
These date to 1888. The syncopated facades are quite unusual. Architect TBD. 23/
Sometimes we get it right. Five St. Joseph, @HaririPontarini / @ERAarch. Incorporates large pieces of five heritage buildings dating 1884-1929. 24/
20 St. Joseph St, 1892, a very nice example of the Annex House style, Toronto’s hybrid of Richardsonian & Queen Anne. Architect TBD. 25/
A great, underrated building. Cloverhill Apts, 1939, by John Gibb Morton (1876-1949). A Glaswegian who had a long interesting career; working with John Burnet, with Aston Webb in London, then decades designing churches across Canada. 26/
Post office by David Ewart for the Dept. of Public Works, 1905-06, back when the government of Canada made good buildings. No PPP or IDB here. 27/
10 St. Mary, 1957, solid stolid modernism from establishment firm Mathers & Haldenby eraarch.ca/2018/era-is-mo… 28/
And a good place to wind up. This building is now a @ShopprsDrugMart with mass timber structure, by @BrookMcIlroyInc @ERAarch. 29/
One final note: despite all of its beauty, downtown Yonge Street is a remarkably unpleasant place to walk. Redesign it. theglobeandmail.com/canada/toronto…
