Tag Archives: brutalist
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.
20151111. A pair of triple level pedestrian bridges dominate Simcoe St at Canada Life’s Toronto campus.
20151110. Neck-craning Brutalism on Toronto’s Canada Life Campus.
20151109. Changing the face of Dundas and University in Toronto.
It is sad to see the facade of this 1968 International Style tower being removed and replaced with temporary walls. The office tower will be reclad in glass and 37 floors of condominiums will be added above.
20151108. Brutalist stairwell enclosure. Veteren residence, Sunnybrook Hospital, Toronto.
20151107. Blocks of Brutalism in perspective at Oshawa’s Ontario Ministry of Finance Building.
20150901. Concrete mastery at UTSC’s Andrews Building Science Wing.
20150826. Toronto’s un-designated 1974 Brutalist Masters Building A.
20150415. A west view of Toronto’s concrete yet seemingly current Manulife Centre.
20150408. Lines and steps in the shadow of Brutalism. Minimal Aesthetic 53.
20150402. One man versus a behemoth Brutalist building. Manulife Centre, Toronto.
20150324. The striking modern facade of the brutalist Science Wing at UofT Scarborough campus in Toronto.
20150323. The versatility and expression of concrete exemplified at University of Toronto Scarborough.
20150321. The oblong spirals of a concrete stairwell at the University of Toronto Scarborough Campus Andrews Building.
The Andrews Building containing these stairwells was designed by the Australian architect John Andrews in 1965 who later went on to design the CN Tower.
Note the raw concrete (beton brut) look furnished by the wood forms in which the concrete was poured in place.
20150301. The Brutalistic pre-cast concrete lines of Toronto’s TTC Kipling Station electrical substation.
20150218. University of Toronto’s Brutalist Tartu College seems to lift off the ground as if supported only by its thin end walls.
Tampold Architects, 1969.