More things at Tower Auto

The first and only things tag (so far).  Photo by Vic Gedris

As a follow-up to yesterday's post on the Tower Automotive building, I got a tip from Vic Gedris that he also visited the Tower recently, and had some more photos to share.



The first set of photos is expanded from the 2009 junctiontriangle.ca gallery I mentioned before.

The second set of photos was taken just a few days ago.

Before.

After.  I don't know who it is, but they went big.

Some more of my favourites:

Artist unknown. Photo by Vic Gedris

Artist unknown. Photo by Vic Gedris

Artist unknown. Photo by Vic Gedris

Thanks Vic!

Tower Automotive

Photo by Jonathan Castellino

The old Tower Automotive building, located at 158 Sterling Road, is one of Toronto's forgotten landmarks, and a magnet for urban explorers.  The site has been derelict since 2006, so it's full of graffiti, some of which is quite amazing.  It is now being redeveloped by Castlepoint Realty Partners, so all that is about to change.

City of Toronto Archives, Fonds 1231, Image 1628

City of Toronto Archives, Fonds 1244, Image 7203

Photo by Jonathan Castellino

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Photo by Vic Gedris

Photo by Vic Gedris

So it's good news that Martin Reis, a local photojournalist and prolific documenter of street art, just posted a new set of photos from his recent "authorized visit to this heritage building in transition."  The set includes one of my doodles, but I'll leave it up to you to guess which one it is (a hint: it's not in either of these photos).

Photo by Martin Reis

Photo by Martin Reis

A personal fave from the Tower:

Artist unknown.  Photo by Caroline Ross

Here are a few other recent photos of the Tower Auto building from Vic Gedris.