
Tag Archives: brutalism
20170512. Living in brutalism at the Centrepoint East apartment complex in Moss Park.

20170428. Standing under the Scott Library and sky feeling inclined to go right. Minimal Aesthetic 111.

20170418. When completed in 1968, Rochdale College was an experiment in alternate learning.

20170417. Metro modernism against a brutalist backdrop.

20170404. A southbound view of the Brutalist Eglinton West subway station.

20170102. Krystyna Sadowska’s 1967 sculpture suits the concrete plaza of the brutalist Centrepoint East apartment complex in Moss Park (Ryan & Lee, 1974).

20161220. Celebrated Canadian architect Uno Prii, known for sculpted concrete buildings in Toronto, dabbled with rectilinear forms in his later years including the 1983 Brutalist Alan Brown Building, a staff residence for The Hospital for Sick Children.

20161021. The consonance of concrete and canopy at the Ontario Science Centre.

20161009. A study in concrete at York University’s Curtis Lecture Halls. Minimal Aesthetic 99.

20151111. Triple level overpass at Canada Life’s Toronto campus.

20160902. Sheraton Centre’s brutalist triangular marquee mushroom.

20160824. Make a brutalist building brutal with a skirt of contemporary cladding.

20160516. A warehouse demolition reveals an appealing steel frame in Toronto’s Riverside neighbourhood.
Demolition of this former concrete warehouse makes way for the large Riverside Square development by Streetcar Developments.
20160330. Brick Brutalist Baptist Building.
Northminster Baptist Church, Jane-Finch neighbourhood, North York, Toronto.
20160228. A stripped 1967 brutalist Sutton Place Hotel shall transform into The Britt Condos.

20160225. Toronto’s 1972 brutalist Grand Hotel may be redeveloped into a 45 storey tower.
ERA Architects conducted the heritage impact statement. In short the building is not heritage-listed, not in a Heritage Conservation District and its height is not out of character with coming development. Amexon Development and CORE Architects Inc are behind the proposal.
20160224. From Dow Corning to Church of the Resurrection, another great Macy Dubois modernist building (1965).

20160219. The facade of an inverted brutalist ziggurat.

20160125. A brutalist box shall give way to Riverside Square.
Demolition of this familiar site off Eastern Avenue in Toronto has already started. The new development will be the largest east of the Don River in ages.
20160108. John Parkin Brutalist gem and heritage listed Simpson tower to be destroyed by re-cladding.
What do you think of the redesign? https://s3.amazonaws.com/spacelist-paperclip/datas/000/263/760/original/401_Bay_Street__Toronto__ON.pdf?1440846050
20160101. Scarborough Senior Public School Brutalism II. Canadian Architect Raymond Moriyama, 1969.

20151230. Scarborough Public School Brutalism. Canadian Architect Raymond Moriyama, 1969.

20151222. Etobicoke’s Toronto District School Board Education Centre is a Brutalist place to be.

20151124. Brutalism at its best at University of Toronto Scarborough.
