Tag Archives: brutalist
20200621. Brutalism at the Toronto Star Building (1971) includes coarse aggregate concrete.
20200618. The massive brutalist shell around the seed of the planetarium.
20200501. The patterned concrete of the enwave Walton Street Steam Plant north facade.
20200419. The back (but not the altar side) of St. Wilfrid’s Roman Catholic Church seems more like a Brutalist air traffic control tower.
20200415. The brutalist SickKids Centre for Community Mental Health (formerly the Hincks Dellcrest Centre) at Jarvis and Wellesley. Shore & Moffat, 1967.
20200411. Demolition on Elizabeth Street has revealed some fine brutalism at the Enwave Walton Street Steam Plant.
20200408. The fairly brutalist 1973 Parkside Student Residence (formerly the Best Western Primrose Hotel) at Jarvis and Carlton.
20200329. 350 Bloor Street East is a decent little 1970 brutalist building by Toronto’s Parkin Partnership Architects.
20200322. The Sheraton Centre Toronto has some nice lines. John B. Parkin Associates with design consultant Seppo Valjus, 1972.
20200306. The John M. Kelly library is a relatively ornate brutalist building.
20200225. Looking up at a corner of the brutalist ziggurat at 222 Jarvis and home to four Ontario Government ministries. Minimal Aesthetic 147. Surveillance 1.
20200216. The postmodern 15 Scadding Court with its bulky Brutalist massing.
20200210. Living in Brutalism at Moss Park’s 1974 Centrepoint East high-rise complex.
20200202. Toronto City Council has endorsed replacing the brutalist St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts with a new state-of-the-art cultural and civic hub.
20200122. Thales Canada (formerly IBM) at 105 Moatfield Drive is a great example of a Brutalist office tower (Crang & Boake, 1982).
20200109. Stripping away the brutalist elements at 1200 Eglinton Ave E (near Wynford Drive), a classic building by Raymond Moriyama.
20191216. Although the days of old Alexandra Park’s brutalist brick townhomes are numbered, they continue to intrigue with unexpected symmetry.
20191030. The angular concrete and brown brick front facade of YWCA Hamilton at 75 MacNab Street South.
20190929. The south facade of the Brutalist Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE).
20190920. A former Brutalist bank at Danforth and Woodbine.
20190919. 555 Burnhamthorpe Road is a jumble of styles including modernist, brutalist and international style.
20190817. A wormhole opens above the brutalist Econolodge Hotel in Smiths Falls.
20190730. Brick Brutalism at the Nathan O. and Roey Hurwich Education Centre / The Abba and Esther Danilack Middle School.
20190713. The decommissioned and soon-to-be-demolished McLaughlin Planetarium dome.
