Tag Archives: modernist
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).
20160301. Waiting for the bus under a massive relic of modernism.
Toronto‘s Sutton Place Hotel was built in 1967 by WZMH Architects. After almost 50 years in service the building is being redeveloped as a condominium tower.
20160227. Modernist Box Office. Toronto’s 1957 Queen Elizabeth Building.
20160224. From Dow Corning to Church of the Resurrection, another great Macy Dubois modernist building (1965).
20160115. Archetypal octagonal zig-zag modernist architecture in Etobicoke.
20160112. The impressive Canada Square Complex at Yonge and Eglinton (Kenneth Cooper 1963, 1972).
20160110. The Duke of York / Regent Park Junior Public School, a decrepit but excellent example of institutional modernism is now gone.
20160108. John Parkin Brutalist gem and heritage listed Simpson tower to be destroyed by re-cladding.
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