Monthly Archives: March 2015
20150330. Reflections mottle the east face of Toronto’s 1953 modern classical Crown Life Insurance Building.
20150329. The capped conduits watched construction of Union UP Express station progress.
20150328. North York’s late modernist Joseph Shepard Federal Building and its cuboid massing. Toronto, Macy DuBois Architect, 1977.
20150327. Markham’s concrete and coloured glass Unionville High School.
20150326. Impressive train shed metalwork revealed by revitilization at Toronto’s Union Station.
20150325. Glowing Stairwell in Profile. Minimal Aesthetic 51.
I liked these stairs more when they were incomplete: http://www.flickr.com/photos/vikpahwa/15747912008/
20150324. The striking modern facade of the brutalist Science Wing at UofT Scarborough campus in Toronto.
20150323. The versatility and expression of concrete exemplified at University of Toronto Scarborough.
20150322. Sideways Stairwell and Sconces on a Concrete Campus. Minimal Aesthetic 50.
20150321. The oblong spirals of a concrete stairwell at the University of Toronto Scarborough Campus Andrews Building.
The Andrews Building containing these stairwells was designed by the Australian architect John Andrews in 1965 who later went on to design the CN Tower.
Note the raw concrete (beton brut) look furnished by the wood forms in which the concrete was poured in place.
20150320. Frontier living in Georgian style in the upper reaches of Markham.
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.
20150316. Brutalism at The Grand Hotel and former RCMP Toronto Headquarters. 1972.
20150315. The Cathedral of the Transfiguration sits empty in the middle of the barren Cathedraltown in Markham, Ontario.
20150314. Orange light-emitting diode matrix. Minimal Aesthetic 49.
20150313. The lines of Toronto’s Terminal 1.
20150312. The impressive black-clad River City Phase I in Toronto’s West Don lands.
20150311. The striking cantilevered entrance canopy at Toronto’s Sony Centre for the Performing Arts at dusk.
20150310. The art deco details of Leslieville’s closed-to-become-condo Weston Bakery in Toronto.
20150309. The skeleton of a self-storage structure sits at a corner of Toronto’s Pump House Park.
20150308. The unique 1971 modernist Building T pumping station in Toronto’s Pump House Park.
The attributes that make this building unique include the circular plan, the engaged inverted engaged catenary arches on the lower wall and the taller engaged catenary arches on the upper wall with fins that extend beyond the original roofline. Unfortunately, the recently added metal penthouse (or cap on top) obscures these fins from view and diminishes the brilliant original design that you can see at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pumping_station_in_Ashbridges_Bay_Toronto.jpg. This pumping station is officially known as the Mid-Toronto Interceptor Pumping Station but being a part of the Ashbridges Bay Treatment Plant, it goes by the name Building T.
20150307. The space between houses offers a break in the banality in Toronto’s King West Village.
20150306. The space age exit of Toronto’s Fort York Visitor Centre to the Garrison Commons.
