20220302. Founders Residence courtyard entrance, York University. John B. Parkin Associates, 1965.
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20210908. The interiors of the former IBM offices (John B, Parkin Associatiates, 1965) have been stripped but the facades will remain under the Crosstown III tower.
20210830. Modern August #30. Whites Location Equipment Supply has equipped the film industry for over 50 years from this massive modern warehouse.
20210806. Modern August #6. Toronto’s modern Celestica (formerly IBM) Offices (1965) shall soon sprout buildings as high as 130 metres as the Crosstown comes to Don Mills and Eglinton.
20210705. Bridges (and underpasses and overpasses) of July 05. John B. Parkin’s 1966 modern enclosed open spandrel concrete arch bridge brings the subway over the Riverdale Ravine.
20210624. Brutalist June continues with Brutalism #24. Béton brut is the term used to describe concrete left unfinished after being cast like here at the Sheraton Centre Toronto.
20210313. Looking up at the main entrance of the postmodern Rogers corporate campus at Jarvis and Bloor.
20210312. Sheraton Centre Toronto tower in profile.
20201104. The Queen St entrance to the Sheraton Centre, a complex built to compliment City Hall directly across the street (John B. Parkin Associates, 1972).
20200413. The clean modern lines and reflecting bright white windows of Sidney Smith Hall (Parkin, 1961) at University of Toronto.
20200322. The Sheraton Centre Toronto has some nice lines. John B. Parkin Associates with design consultant Seppo Valjus, 1972.
20180514. The top of the Rosedale Valley Bridge, an open spandrel concrete arch bridge, that brings the TTC across the Rosedale Ravine (John B. Parkin Associates, 1966).
20160903. Mies’ black monoliths of modernism – the TD Centre.
20160828. An aerial view on a Mies van der Rohe masterpiece – the TD Centre.
