Brickworks Workshop

Toronto – September 10, 2006
This Workshop Has Been Cancelled
Brickworks #7 — Toronto. November, 2003
Located very close to downtown Toronto is an old industrial site calledThe Brickworks. For the first half of the 20th century it was the source of much of the brick used to build the city of Toronto, and then in the second half of the century it was abandoned; the buildings sealed, and the grounds turned into parkland.
In November 2003, quite by accident, I found an entrance into one of the sealed buildings and ended up doing some fascinating photography. You can read about that event in my essay titledArchitecture as Landscape.
Since thenThe Brickworkshas become slated for a major urban renewal program under the auspices of the environmental groupEvergreen. You can read about that exciting projecthere. But at the moment the buildings of The Brickworks sit much as they have for the past half century. (TheCity of Toronto, the property's owners, has done an environmental and...