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My March 2013 album on Flickr features more than 500 photos showing dozens of downtown construction projects and building sites. Click once on the image above to view a small-format slideshow of the pictures, or click twice to access the actual album where you can view individual full-size photos with captions.

Frozen fingers: It’s only a few days into spring and I’m still sorting through hundreds of building and construction photos I took during the winter. What has struck me the most is how gloomy and grey the city looked most of the time. Sunny, clear days were few and far between — and when they came, it was usually too bitterly cold and windy for me to risk freezing my fingers by wandering around with my camera.

I did manage a few long photo walks, though, and have been gradually posting the pics in albums on thetorontoblog.com’s Flickr photostream. Above is a link to my fourth winter photo album, March 2013.

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From The King East project website, this rendering suggests how the building will look from a southeast perspective…

…and this is how The King East condo construction site appeared when viewed from the same perspective on April 30 2011

April 30 2011 view of excavation progress at the west end of the site for The King East condominium

Designer digs: Excavation work continues to progress on The King East, a 15-story condominium building billed by its developer as a “thrilling, pre-eminent architectural sculpture…crafted to push the design envelope to new heights.” The midrise condo will occupy the northwest corner of King and Parliament Streets, “one of the most historically significant corners of the original 10 blocks of the City of Toronto,” the project website states. Being marketed as a “designer condominium,” The King East is a project of Lamb Development Corp, Hyde Park Homes and The Sher Corporation. It will be noteworthy for its facade, which the condo website says will blend “patterns of red brick with bands of concrete, artfully connecting the glass podium by rising up the east and west face.” Below is another building rendering, from the project website, along wtih photos I shot at The King East construction site recently.