Tag Archives: modernist
20170128. A psychedelic mid-century modernist brick wall at 103 Avenue Road featuring alternating smooth-turquoise-stretcher and buff-yellow-header brick. Minimal Aesthetic 106.
20161231. It’s been a fun year of photography and I look to forward to another year of imagery. Thanks for looking! Have a great 2017!
20161211. Demolition of the Bnai Fishel Towers parking garage is underway.
20161016. Living in luxury atop Toronto’s modern 1960 CIL building.
The office tower is at 130 Bloor Street West while residents enter from the rear at 155 Cumberland St. Although this building is not heritage designated, it is known for the heritage-designated two-storey Torno penthouse on the top floors of the original building. The additional floors were added in 2010.
Addition: Quadrangle Architects Limited
Original: @Bregman + Hamann
Torno Penthouse: Philip Johnson
20161008. The modernist lines of the impeccably renovated Port Credit Library.
20161002. BMO Field’s west entrance is all that remains of the modernist Canada Sports Hall of Fame (1961-2005).
20160905. Renovations continue below at The Salvation Army Toronto Grace Health Centre.
20160826. Moss Park Modernism.
20160815. Opened 1971 and closed 2011, Ontario Place continues to feel contemporary.
20160814. Functional modernism at Parkdale’s Seabreeze Apartments in Toronto.
20160811. The towering modernist forms of St. James Town at night.
Looking west from Parliament Street. Several buildings are named for Canadian cities – the white building with shapely balconies is the Toronto and in the distance the right tower is the Hamilton.
20160809. The modernist Bathville Towers (1966) of North York – reminiscent of a castle’s curtain wall and its keep.
20160726. 1972 rough-hewn concrete modernism. 240 Duncan Mill Rd, Toronto.
In 2009, a concrete slab, the building’s brise-soleil or sun baffle, fell of the building with 100 people inside.
20160711. The 1960, recently restored, modernist Hamilton City Hall looks like it was built yesterday.
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).
20160630. Toronto’s modernist, unprotected Celestica (formerly IBM) Offices (1965) face redevelopment as The Crosstown comes to Don Mills and Eglinton.
20160526. A sculpture of a ceiling. Minimal Aesthetic 93.
20160508. Octogon X. Minimal Aesthetic 89.
20160423. A long view on an unmistakably modern Toronto apartment building.
20160414. The repeating poured concrete menorah motifs of the 1959 Beth David B’nai Israel Beth Am Synagogue.
20160406. Sadly, one of the most expressive Modernist buildings in Toronto, Davisville Junior Public School, is at grave risk of being demolished.
Architect Peter Pennington, 1962.
20160327. Looking up Pittsburgh’s 1959-built Wyndham Grand Hotel, an example of the city’s marvelous mid-century modernism.
20160314. The mid-century expressionist canopy of Uno Prii’s Americana apartment building in North Toronto (1963).
