Gil Meslin
@gmeslin.bsky.social
Ceiling details of a great room.
November 17, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Ceiling details of a great room.
June 19, 1930.
Toronto Daily Star reader, ticketed for doing 35 in a 20, complains that county of York speed trap is a cash grab.
Toronto Daily Star reader, ticketed for doing 35 in a 20, complains that county of York speed trap is a cash grab.
November 14, 2025 at 3:57 PM
June 19, 1930.
Toronto Daily Star reader, ticketed for doing 35 in a 20, complains that county of York speed trap is a cash grab.
Toronto Daily Star reader, ticketed for doing 35 in a 20, complains that county of York speed trap is a cash grab.
Thematic Halloween decorations in progress.
October 31, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Thematic Halloween decorations in progress.
The last time the Blue Jays were in the World Series, there was no CityPlace, no South Core, no Maple Leaf Square, no HTO Park, no WaveDecks, no Roundhouse Park, no aquarium, no Scotiabank Arena, no Well, and King West and the Entertainment District were still largely pre-condo.
October 24, 2025 at 11:10 PM
The last time the Blue Jays were in the World Series, there was no CityPlace, no South Core, no Maple Leaf Square, no HTO Park, no WaveDecks, no Roundhouse Park, no aquarium, no Scotiabank Arena, no Well, and King West and the Entertainment District were still largely pre-condo.
L: Dodger Stadium and surrounding contiguous parking.
R: Outline of above traced over Rogers Centre (SkyDome) and surrounding area.
R: Outline of above traced over Rogers Centre (SkyDome) and surrounding area.
October 24, 2025 at 9:00 PM
L: Dodger Stadium and surrounding contiguous parking.
R: Outline of above traced over Rogers Centre (SkyDome) and surrounding area.
R: Outline of above traced over Rogers Centre (SkyDome) and surrounding area.
If you’re in Etobicoke and looking for that final detail for your World Series viewing party, Sanremo has Blue Jays cakes.
October 24, 2025 at 4:29 PM
If you’re in Etobicoke and looking for that final detail for your World Series viewing party, Sanremo has Blue Jays cakes.
I love the neighbourhood representations in these four ‘Where’s a Public Library?’ maps from the 1970s.
October 23, 2025 at 5:12 PM
I love the neighbourhood representations in these four ‘Where’s a Public Library?’ maps from the 1970s.
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.
Below:
20•10•60
24•1•61
8•2•61
Below:
20•10•60
24•1•61
8•2•61
October 6, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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.
Below:
20•10•60
24•1•61
8•2•61
Below:
20•10•60
24•1•61
8•2•61
July 6, 1995.
Time is a flat circle.
Time is a flat circle.
September 25, 2025 at 4:33 PM
July 6, 1995.
Time is a flat circle.
Time is a flat circle.
Shana Tova, from our cat to you.
September 24, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Shana Tova, from our cat to you.
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.
Two shots of Toronto’s central skyline, 18 years apart. Taken near the Centre Island ferry docks, 2007/2025.
September 15, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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.
Two shots of Toronto’s central skyline, 18 years apart. Taken near the Centre Island ferry docks, 2007/2025.
September 15, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Two shots of Toronto’s central skyline, 18 years apart. Taken near the Centre Island ferry docks, 2007/2025.
Toronto Island bathroom/concession pavilions (I really love these).
September 12, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Toronto Island bathroom/concession pavilions (I really love these).
Centreville intermodal transit hub (rail and swan boat).
September 12, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Centreville intermodal transit hub (rail and swan boat).
The giant @BikeShareTO rack by the Centre Island ferry dock is a great addition.
September 12, 2025 at 6:16 PM
The giant @BikeShareTO rack by the Centre Island ferry dock is a great addition.
Same as it ever was. I had the strangest dream that a Ferry Terminal design competition took place over a decade ago.
September 12, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Same as it ever was. I had the strangest dream that a Ferry Terminal design competition took place over a decade ago.
Aneta Circle Parkette rocket ship, 1999.
September 2, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Aneta Circle Parkette rocket ship, 1999.
Order of Canada for the designer of the Ontario Provincial Parks’ fire pits.
August 1, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Order of Canada for the designer of the Ontario Provincial Parks’ fire pits.
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.
June 20, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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.
Still such a beauty when it catches the full sun.
June 13, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Still such a beauty when it catches the full sun.
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.
May 6, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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.
Interesting how ornamental metalwork hanging from the ceiling around the perimeter of the Bianca lobby is used to create texture through shadowplay.
April 18, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Interesting how ornamental metalwork hanging from the ceiling around the perimeter of the Bianca lobby is used to create texture through shadowplay.
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.
April 6, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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.