20220802. A mid-century modern church steeple.
Tag Archives: 1969
20220623. An abstract bronze sculpture by Charles Daudelin (1969) at the National Arts Centre. Anyone know what it’s called?
20220530. The googie ice cream bar (@tomsdairyfreeze, The Queensway, 1969). Googie architecture (AKA expressionist, mid-century modern, space age, populuxe, doo wop) originated in 1930s Los Angeles and features curvilinear geometric shapes and upswept roofs.
20220321. Don’t you just love that corduroy concrete in the morning sun?
20220228. Brutalist OISE. Kenneth R. Cooper, 1969.
20220128. The Winton Place condos are unusual in that they look more institutional than residential.
20220127. The Agnes MacPhail apartment complex features two towers connected by a narrow section in between them.
20210617. It’s Brutalist June! Brutalist 17 – The 1969 Allan I. Carswell Astronomical Observatory at York University.
20210610. Brutalist June continues with Brutalism-10. John M. Kelly Library is the other brutalist University of Toronto library.
20210220. The pleasing lines of Balfour Square. Seligman and Dick, 1969.
20200817. 500 Keele (Keele Centre) has changed from a CPR intermodal freight transport building built in 1969 to a business park housing small enterprises.
20200419. The back (but not the altar side) of St. Wilfrid’s Roman Catholic Church seems more like a Brutalist air traffic control tower.
20200323. An impressive array of scaffolding slowly takes over the facade of the Ontario Government’s Mowat Block as they prepare to move, assess and pallet all limestone pavers on the building as part of the Macdonald Block Resconstruction Project.
20200310. Hanging out at a modern second level industrial park in the Junction from 1969.
20200306. The John M. Kelly library is a relatively ornate brutalist building.
20180407. Sitting by the modernist space age canopy at the Ash Grove apartments in North York.
20170601. York University’s Assiniboine Towers are a handsome group of buildings with subtle variations.
20140422. Precast Concrete Stairwell Wall. U of T Medical Sciences Building, Minimal Aesthetic 110.
20170321. A latticework of balconies and concrete forms the facade of the modernist Tower Hill tower.
