Garden Sheds and Industrial Buildings Photo exhibit focuses on historic industrial buildings

Photo exhibit focuses on historic industrial buildings

Historic industrial buildings in Toronto are to be featured in a new photo exhibition, designed to highlight examples of "architectural beauty", it has been reported.

Titled Building Storeys, the collection is the effort of a group of Toronto architectural photographers and the city's heritage organisation, reports the Daily Commercial News and Construction Record.

Executive director at Heritage Toronto Peggy Mooney told the news provider: "We thought that industrial buildings would be something that people do not often think about as things of beauty.

"When in fact there are a lot of public buildings built even a hundred years ago in which great care was taken in their design and building of them."

Buildings featured date back to the early 1900s and the 1950s, with many of them now sitting empty.

Photographer Olena Sullivan said while many people think of industrial as being "grimy and dirty", the skill and craftsmanship of the designers and builders must not be overlooked.

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