Remnants of Mid-Century Toronto

Photography: Vik Pahwa

Editor: Matthew Blackett

Publisher: Spacing Toronto

Remnants of Mid-Century Toronto is a collection of stunning photos by Vik Pahwa — interspersed with short essays and features by local architects — documenting the sometimes beautiful, sometimes neglected collection of mid-century structures that still stand today, dotting Toronto’s urban landscape. The book focuses on the buildings that we see in our everyday activities that often blend into the background of our collective memories of the city. These buildings were built with the ethos of a different generation. Seeing them in a contemporary setting allows us to reflect on the legacy of what we’ve inherited as a city.

About the Photographer: Vik Pahwa

Vik Pahwa is a Toronto-based professional architectural photographer and documentarian with a deep knowledge of the city. Vik discovered photography as a method to document his ongoing explorations of the Greater Toronto Area. The result is a large archive of city images and a daily photography blog which started in 2011. Vik’s work appears in the City of Toronto Archives, numerous issues of Spacing, the book Toronto Architecture: A City Guide, and numerous other publications and websites.