The Globe and Mail

Everyone who lives in Toronto is aware, in a general way, that our town has a lot of elderly high-rises. Nor are these survivors from the 1950s and 1960s merely, or mostly, concentrated in the old city centre. Hundreds of old apartment slabs and towers stand, in clusters or alone, along most important streets throughout the huge area embraced by Toronto's new city limits, from Etobicoke to Scarborough, from Front Street up to Steeles Avenue. We tend to take these buildings for granted, I think, and most of us certainly don't spend time thinking about them. One person who has given a great deal of fruitful, eye-opening thought to our stock of tall buildings is Graeme Stewart, who is currently at the end of his professional education at the University of Toronto's architecture school, and is also an employee of the well-known Toronto heritage-fabric firm E.R.A. Architects.