20221217. A long view of the TTC’s most outdoor station Rosedale (John B. Parkin, 1950). From 2011.
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20220922. This impressive 1974 John B Parkin concrete office tower will be demolished for a 62-storey @WZMHarchitects mixed use tower. It sits north of 488 University, another WZMH building whose concrete facade was lost.
20210824. Modern August #24. John B. Parkin’s forever contemporary Ortho Pharmaceutical Building (1955).
20190829. Sculptural piers effortlessly support the bulky National Life Building above its cantilevered second floor (John B. Parkin, 1974).
John B. Parkin’s forsaken orthogonal modernist IBM office campus (1965) at Eglinton and Don Mills is at grave risk of demolition.
20180311. John B. Parkin had a particular interest in designing school buildings in the modernist style including the 1942 Sunnylea Junior School shown here with its 1948 addition.
20160705. John B. Parkin’s modernist Celestica (formerly IBM) Offices (1965) face demolition as the Crosstown comes to Don Mills and Eglinton.
20160703. John B. Parkin’s forever contemporary Ortho Pharmaceutical Building (1955).
20151105. The sinuous concrete elegance of Ottawa’s 1966 train station.
