Recent Posts Tagged With 'toronto'

• An Apartment Block in Toronto

  Posted on Monday December 14th, 2009 at 00:17 in Canada, toronto

  Another deco building snapped from the car in a strange city. This is an apartment block in Toronto, somewhere out near the R C Harris Filtration Plant in the east of the city. The decoration above the door can be seen on other apartment blocks aro...

• Round Room, The Carlu, Toronto

  Posted on Monday November 9th, 2009 at 05:24 in Canada, toronto

  The highlight of Eaton's College Park store in Toronto was the Round Dining Room on the seventh floor. Now, the Round Room is the highlight of The Carlu which now occupies the seventh floor after a multi-million dollar restoration.The room, like the...

• 7th Floor Lobby, The Carlu, Toronto

  Posted on Saturday November 7th, 2009 at 23:05 in Canada, toronto

  Towards the end of October 1930, Eaton's opened their College Park store in Toronto with the undoubted highlight of the building the seventh floor.Lady Eaton commissioned French designer Jacques Carlu to design the seventh floor. Carlu had designed ...

• Garden Court, Toronto

  Posted on Tuesday October 20th, 2009 at 19:03 in Canada, toronto

  Tim Morawetz in his excellent book Art Deco Architecture in Toronto describes the Garden Court apartments as "arguably Canada's finest example of low-rise, multi-unit housing built in the Streamlined Moderne style".The complex consists of two and thr...

• former Toronto Hydro-Electric Building

  Posted on Monday August 3rd, 2009 at 07:06 in Canada, toronto

  According to Tim Morawetz in Art Deco Architecture in Toronto, the Toronto Hydro-Electric Building was constructed from 1931 to 1933 from designs by architects Chapman and Oxley with associate Albert E Salisbury.From a distance the buildng is very pl...