EXCAVATION

490 Sherbourne Street, Toronto I View across excavation towards Our Lady of Lourdes Church.

HOARDING

Oxley Street, Toronto I A contractor fights a losing battle against the postering army. This hoarding will probably get re-postered this afternoon, in time for the Saturday night club crowd.

DRYWALL

Quadville, Ontario I Spent last weekend doing a bit of drywall inbetween the snow.

STRETCHER

30 Grand Trunk Crescent, Toronto I Shot at a construction site in the railway lands between the Gardiner Expressway and Union Station.

WATER

Lower Simcoe Bridge, Toronto I Toronto is covered in about a metre of topsoil. Below that you get clay. Because of this every construction site turns into a muddy mess which never drains.

TARP

185 Spadina Avenue, Toronto I Tarp over some construction scaffolding at a converted warehouse.

WILLIAM

Maple Leaf Quay, Toronto I One of the tugs tied up to a barge at the site of the new HtO park.

CITYPLACE

West side of Spadina Ave., Toronto I Part of the huge development at the railway lands. Everything between here and the two towers on the horizon will be filled in over the next 10 years. This was pasted together from 6 shots and the seams are a bit obvious in places. (I filled in the corner at the bottom-right)

THREE SISTERS

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Kowloon, Hong Kong, China I Another set of towers under construction with nothing but bamboo scaffolding covering them. See a similar one from a couple of days ago here. This one is also in Kowloon, at the western Star Ferry dock.

GREEN TOWER

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Kowloon, Hong Kong, China I Surrounded by bamboo scaffolding, this 30 story hotel rises in central Kowloon.

PRIESTLY

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260 Eighth Street, Toronto I Another shot of the Anaconda Brass site taken at the same time as this one.

CCBR GROUT

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160 College Street, Toronto I Shot inside one of the egg-shaped meeting rooms on the ground floor during construction. The sand and red dye were used for grouting the red tiles on the outside walls.

ST. MARY'S CEMENT

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8 Bathurst Street, Toronto I A shot of a conveyor belt inspired by Peter MacCallum's photographs. His Concrete Industries series can be found in the book Material World. The Bathurst Street plant is moving to the Portlands as part of the City's waterfront renewal plans.

PRIESTLY EXCAVATOR

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Liberty Village, Toronto I This shot was taken in 2003 as work started at the old Inglis plant. The Irwin Toy Factory in the distance is being turned into the Toy Factory Lofts, while the area to the right is now a parking lot for Dominion.