from King Street West
below: Palace Arms hotel on King Street West at Strachan
below: Southeast corner of Strachan and Wellington
below: She’s looking in the window
below: Harry Rogers worked for the city of Toronto in various capacities between 1921 and 1971. He was Commissioner of City Properties in the 1960s. Has this sign been here since then?
below: Part of Garrison Crossing pedestrian bridge
below: Yellow wild flowers growing in the field between the two sections of Garrison Crossing bridge. Looking east to downtown Toronto.
below: There are more than wild flowers between the bridges!
below: Sun bathing at Garrison Common, just outside Fort York
below: On the fence between Fort York and the Bentway there is a series of images that I happened upon the day I walked this route. This is GradEX 106, the work of graduating students in OCADU’s Graphic Design and Illustration program. My apologies to the few students whose work I inadvertently missed.
below: Michael Hu, Shahrzad Soroosh, Lydia Lam, and Dan Waites
below: Aidan Wilkins, Merryn Connelly-Miller, Vincy Lam, and Rebecca Michie
below: Leann Mei Foon, Tina Shan, Ivan Nikitin, and Emmily Fay Fin
below: Valerie Poon, Radha Joshi Raulgaonkar, Alan Zhang, and Sid Sharp
below: Joy Kim, Victoria Tao, Mia Debbas, and Emily Dakin
below: Lucy Hong, Thamara Perera, Tianshu Kuai, Jenny Lynne Castillo, Reyhaneh Mohammadi, and Caroline Icardo
below: Fence on west side of Fort York
below: More of the OCADU exhibit on the fence between Fort York and the Bentway
below: Caitlin Todd, Alizah Hashemy, Lina Wu, and Lisanne Van Der Oort,
below: Jon Owen, Joanne Lee, Kyle Miron, Vuoni, Selina Serok Park, Sarah McIntosh,
below: Liam Marks, Daniel Mendez, Daniel Melnyk, Haojun Gong, Jingyi Dong, and Mika Parial
Also at the Bentway is an art installation called ‘Playing in Public‘. This is part of ArtworxTO, Toronto’s year of public art 2021-2022. Three of the installations are shown below – they will remain at the Bentway until 26th September 2021.
below: ‘Nil:Nil’ by Studio F Minus
below: ‘Double Dribble’ by Esmaa Mohamoud
below: ‘Big Red’ by Assemble
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Wow some great photos here. I have to head down to the Bentway. Glad you got a picture of the Palace Arms Hotel. I hear they’re looking to demolish it unfortunately. (hope I’m wrong) I actually visited your website for the photos of Honest Eds. Really miss that place and the photos brought back a lot of memories.
Thanks for the comment! There is no development notice sign on the Palace Arms Hotel (that I saw) but yes it is going to be redeveloped. I think that there have arguments and debates over the type of condo to be built there but I suspect that it will be glass and steel rising above the present structure. 14 storeys? There is also supposed to be a number (60?) bachelor apartments of affordable housing. At least that’s what I read online this evening.
I drove past the Honest Eds site a couple of weeks ago but decided not to walk that area just yet. Soon!
I really like Big Red