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Gil Meslin @gmeslin.bsky.social · 4d

If you pass through Queen’s Park Station, take note of the fabrication dates on the exposed tunnel liners before they are tiled over. A cool detail that will soon be hidden once again.

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Gil Meslin @gmeslin.bsky.social · 14d

July 6, 1995.

Time is a flat circle.

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Gil Meslin @gmeslin.bsky.social · 16d

Shana Tova, from our cat to you.

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Gil Meslin @gmeslin.bsky.social · 25d

As noticed by @andrewlewisfc.bsky.social, the first photo is not 2007. Based on the state of the Ritz-Carlton, it would appear to be 2009.

Gil Meslin @gmeslin.bsky.social · 25d

Two shots of Toronto’s central skyline, 18 years apart. Taken near the Centre Island ferry docks, 2007/2025.

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Gil Meslin @gmeslin.bsky.social · 25d

I don’t mind persnickety - I like to be accurate! Based on the state of the Ritz in 2009 street view, that would seem to be the year the first photo was taken. (which raises many questions re: my file hygiene)

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Gil Meslin @gmeslin.bsky.social · 25d

Two shots of Toronto’s central skyline, 18 years apart. Taken near the Centre Island ferry docks, 2007/2025.

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Gil Meslin @gmeslin.bsky.social · 26d

The Star had a nice map that went along with their reporting on the riot.

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Gil Meslin @gmeslin.bsky.social · 26d

Gradient flower.

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Gil Meslin @gmeslin.bsky.social · 27d

Toronto Island bathroom/concession pavilions (I really love these).

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Gil Meslin @gmeslin.bsky.social · 27d

Centreville intermodal transit hub (rail and swan boat).

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Gil Meslin @gmeslin.bsky.social · 27d

(I’m certain some have taken this as a challenge)

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Gil Meslin @gmeslin.bsky.social · 27d

The giant @BikeShareTO rack by the Centre Island ferry dock is a great addition.

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Gil Meslin @gmeslin.bsky.social · 28d

Same as it ever was. I had the strangest dream that a Ferry Terminal design competition took place over a decade ago.

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Gil Meslin @gmeslin.bsky.social · Sep 3

Which park?

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Gil Meslin @gmeslin.bsky.social · Sep 3

Sorry - maybe a bad copy/paste? This seems to work:

dufferinpark.ca/cityplaygrou...

Friends of Dufferin Grove Park: City Playgrounds 1999

dufferinpark.ca

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Gil Meslin @gmeslin.bsky.social · Sep 3

dufferinpark.ca/cityplaygrou...

Friends of Dufferin Grove Park: City Playgrounds 1999

dufferinpark.ca

Gil Meslin @gmeslin.bsky.social · Sep 2

For any other playground nostalgists who may be interested, there exists an old Friends of Dufferin Grove Park web page with links to pictures of every piece of equipment in every City park playground, circa 1999. The shared results of an FOI request.

dufferinpark.ca/cityplayground…

https://dufferinpark.ca/cityplayground…

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Gil Meslin @gmeslin.bsky.social · Sep 2

Aneta Circle Parkette rocket ship, 1999.

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Gil Meslin @gmeslin.bsky.social · Aug 1

Order of Canada for the designer of the Ontario Provincial Parks’ fire pits.

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Gil Meslin @gmeslin.bsky.social · Jun 20

I like the places where a street breaks the grid, and you have building frontages parallel with the angled street while property lines and building interiors run with the grid and nearby side streets.

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Gil Meslin @gmeslin.bsky.social · Jun 13

Still such a beauty when it catches the full sun.

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Gil Meslin @gmeslin.bsky.social · Jun 9

Hulchanski, 1982.

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Gil Meslin @gmeslin.bsky.social · May 6

I was at an airport yesterday and some cruel, brilliant individual had put receptacle stickers on the walls and columns by the seats at the gates.

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Gil Meslin @gmeslin.bsky.social · Apr 18

Interesting how ornamental metalwork hanging from the ceiling around the perimeter of the Bianca lobby is used to create texture through shadowplay.

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Gil Meslin @gmeslin.bsky.social · Apr 6

A detail I enjoyed at the Waterworks Food Hall is the columns with brick corbels carrying the girders for a large gantry crane, that still rests overhead at the west end of the space.

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