20261108. A spectacular building incorporating the warm modernist elements of stone walls, textured concrete, prominent entrance canopy and matching landscaping in the North Meadowvale Business Park.
20261107. It’s not apparent from this image but these 2 buildings have triangular footprints. Two corners are notched resulting in all floor to ceiling glass sections being triangular as well. #Postmodern buildings are often good with geometrical shapes but tiring with the deconstructivist trope of selective brick paneling. Concorde Park, North York.
20261106. It’s not often that a modernist office building is turned into a storage facility. 90 Wynford Drive was constructed for Texaco Canada in 1968 by John B. Parkin Associates and added to Toronto’s Heritage Register in 2020. Later it was known as the other Imperial Oil building, acquired by Scotiabank in 2015 and now owned by Access Storage who purchased it for $40.5 million last year.
20261104. Porte cochère front elevation. Don’t you love how thin the concrete is?
20261024. Demolitions can be sad but they open up new views like this one of the ROM showing the 1933 east wing and the 1984 modernist Curatorial Centre. #toronto #architecture #demolition @romtoronto
Bent-making for the Eglinton Crosstown West Extension.
20260213. You would be forgiven for thinking this station was on the Spadina Line Extension with all the colour.
20260116. The Spiral in the Symmetrical Mall.
20260115. Concrete Profile.
20260114. One of my goals this year is go to a church more – I want to start documenting the insides of these mid-century modern beauties.
20260112. March of the Condominiums X.
20260106. Building Tops X. The Art Deco Sterling Tower (Chapman & Oxley, 1929) is getting a new paint job. Good on you, Sweeny &Co!
20260105. Building Tops IX. The top triangular facet of the EY Tower.
20260104. Building Tops VIII. The sky is the limit at Shangri-La Toronto.
20250102. The Sun Life Centre West Tower (@wzmharchitects, 1984).
20260101. Building Tops VI. First Canadian Place and its TD Centre reflection.
20251108. The parking garage entrance building II.
20251107. The parking garage entrance building I.
20251106. Bell II.
20251105. Bell.
20251104. A ragtag group of buildings in The Junction at Brad and Dundas.
20251103. Dundas and Heintzman is an interesting intersection with Kilburn Hall and Salvation Army’s Evangeline Residence at the corners.
20251102. The future home of the Islamic Society of Toronto’s new Islamic Centre.
20251101. What do you think of this postmodern addition? Personally I find the island far more interesting.
20251031. Sticking out in the middle.
