20220610. The remaining Inn on the Park building (1971) at Eglinton and Leslie stands in a half demolished state (from 2014).
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20210804. Modern August #4. The distinctive concave facade of the Ontario Court of Justice Criminal Youth and Family Courts building. Peter Dickinson, 1957.
20210726. Bridges of July #26. A retro pedestrian bridge brightens the night. Health Sciences Building, University of Toronto (from 2014).
20210427. The modern Continental Can Building (1959) designed by prominent Toronto architect Peter Dickinson.
20190131. Remembering the demolition of one of Dickinson’s modernist towers in Regent Park.
20170823. The Executive Offices facade of the Queen Elizabeth Building with its folded-plate concrete roof.
20170707. The quintessentially modern entrance at the Queen Elizabeth building.
20170615. A look back at the 2015 demolition of a modernist Peter Dickinson Regent Park tower in the park.
20161102. The distinctive concave facade of the Ontario Court of Justice Criminal Youth and Family Courts Building. Peter Dickinson,1957.
20160507. A rippled reflection in a grand canopy of the street in front of me.
20160227. Modernist Box Office. Toronto’s 1957 Queen Elizabeth Building.
20151029. A archetypal Modernist lighted canopy surrounds Toronto’s Sony Centre for the Performing Arts.
20150319. A modernist 55 Yonge is a cliff over the concrete canyon of Colborne St. Architect:a prolific Peter Dickinson, 1958.
20150318. Demolition of the last Dickinson-designed modernist tower in Toronto’s Regent Park is underway.
20150311. The striking cantilevered entrance canopy at Toronto’s Sony Centre for the Performing Arts at dusk.
20150208. New and old contrast vividly in Toronto’s Regent Park during the demolition of its 2nd last modernist tower.
20150125. A view of many rooms in the 4th Dickinson modernist high-rise demolition in Toronto’s Regent Park.
20141229. The remaining Inn on the Park building (c.1971) at Eglinton and Leslie in Toronto stands in a half demolished state.
According to the Progreen Demolition website, this is one of the highest buildings (25 storeys) ever demolished in the GTA. The first Inn on the Park building, a modernist structure by architect Peter Dickinson was demolished in 2006.
20141027. Soon to be the last of 5 1958 modernist high-rises in Toronto’s Regent Park, will this empty building’s heritage status save it?
20140820. The half-demolished 1958 Peter Dickinson modernist high-rise in Regent Park, Toronto.
20140623. Contextualism #2: The distant building addresses its context in terms of the materials, forms and details of the closer building.
If all of Peter Dickinson’s high-rises (foreground) are demolished, a memory of them will exist in 90 Sumach (background).
Note the similar forms and details: colour of brick, shape of each patch of brick, the window style and the way each building features vertical lines of windows.
20140622. Phase 3 of Regent Park’s redevelopment involves the demolition of a 1958 Peter Dickinson modernist high-rise.
20140227. 880 Bay St., Toronto – allegedly designed by the man behind the Queen Elizabeth Building (CNE) – Peter Dickinson.
At one point, this handsome government building was slated for demolition. Can anyone verify that this is a Peter Dickinson building?
