— the nice modernist

There isn’t much to Spring Val­ley, Saskatchewan. I would hope that the owner of this truck isn’t intend­ing on ‘restor­ing’ it.

A few shots from my recent trip to Toronto.

This is the Don Val­ley Brick­works, presently under re-​​construction at the hands of the Ever­green Foun­da­tion, as of Decem­ber 8^th. No stranger to tres­pass­ing, I missed my chance to get inside this amaz­ing space, as the site was indeed quite busy.

Despite the pos­i­tive notion of adap­tive reuse, tak­ing form with a sum­mer mar­ket, and Evergreen’s own Cen­tre for Urban Sus­tain­abil­ity, instead of con­tin­ued aban­don­ment, or inevitable bulldozing–I did note the occa­sional dis­sent­ing (‘Ever­greed’) graf­fiti pep­per­ing the site (as have oth­ers, evi­dently.)

The houses and busi­nesses of Vic­to­ria Park are slowly being felled one at a time as the vic­tims of neglect, mis­use, and encroach­ing devel­op­ment. For the last few years I’ve taken it upon myself to doc­u­ment what remains, along with their some­times gen­tle and some­times vio­lent dis­in­te­gra­tion. There isn’t much left.