Tower Automotive Tower (Toronto, Canada)

Northern Aluminum constructed the 10 storey art deco industrial tower and surrounding sheet-casting plant in The Junction, a West Toronto neighbourhood in 1919-20. The building was designed by architect J.W. Schreiber and upon its completion was one of Toronto's tallest structures. It has been speculated that it was equipped with one of the first elevators in Canada...

...It was indeed accessible, and as advertised the motion detectors were blinking red winks at us. We hoped the alarm was still unarmed, but didn't stop to check...

Read all about it here...

http://jermalism.blogspot.ca/2013/05/abandonment-issues-tower-automotive.html



Tower Automotive (Then and now) by jerm IX, on Flickr


IMG_9332 by jerm IX, on Flickr


TONIGHT THIS LIE WILL DIE by jerm IX, on Flickr


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IMG_9271 by jerm IX, on Flickr


From Tower To Tower by jerm IX, on Flickr


IMG_9309 by jerm IX, on Flickr


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Love it, fave has to be the perspective looking down the columns. Cheers for sharing!

Amazing report,thanks for sharing.

Cheers guys. Bout to post another special one.

O I do like none british stuff every now and then

Cheers, thats good!

Cheers bones. I'm loving all the European locations I've been seeing here lately so it's nice to know you are digging some of my Canadian spots.