Monthly Archives: July 2017
The Michener Institute of Education at the University Health Network – Toronto’s lesser-known brutalism. B+H Architects, 1972.
20170729. Looking up inside a symmetrical square residential tower.
20170727. A block of brutalism at Cleveland’s Justice Center Complex with Jail II in the foreground designed by Robert P. Madison International.
20170726. Tiled supergraphic brutalism in the Toronto District School Board at Lucy McCormick Senior School. Notice the name of the school in large light grey letters across the building.
20170725. Brutalism in the Toronto District School Board. John McCrae Public School. Raymond Moriyama, 1969.
20170724. Maritime brutalism at Moncton’s Place L’Assomption.
20170723. The brick brutalism of the Bayview Glen Alliance Church rear campus.
20170722. A brutalist abstraction from the Oshawa Bus Terminal. Minimal Aesthetic 117.
20170721. Bemi’s Brutalist Bibliothèque (Ottawa Public Library main branch).
20170721. The brutalist Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General Milton Courthouse.
For the love of brutalist concrete minimalism! East elevation, Curtis Lecture Halls, York University.
20170718. The Sheppard Centre’s residential component includes this synergistic trio of Brutalist-inspired towers. Perhaps the centre’s expansion and renovation will not detract from this handsome collective.
20170717. The mid-century expressionist St. Peter’s Estonian Lutheran Church. Note the very unusual angled walls with the apex at the middle of the facade, consisting of english garden bond split-brickwork with heading courses inserted every 6th course and alternating courses of recessed and protruding brick.
The York University Curtis Lecture Halls exemplify Brutalism with a form expressing its function.
20170715. The singularly Brutalist Masters Condos of Etobicoke’s Markland Wood.
20170714. Colonel By Hall, the Brutalist home of University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Engineering.
20170713. The domes of the City of Toronto’s F.J. Horgan Water Treatment Plant.
The early ancestors of Star Wars All Terrain Scout Transports (AT_ST) or Scout Walkers worked the railway lines of Earth lifting double leaf Bascule bridges.
20170711. The unparalleled simplicity of Mies van der Rohe’s Toronto-Dominion Centre is still evident today on its 50th anniversary.
20170711. Having lunch at the foot of a massive monolithic Mies masterpiece on its 50th anniversary.
20170710. The 1910 S.F. Bowser and Company Factory, producer of oil tanks, has Edwardian Classical features including a flat roof, less ornate corbelled brickwork and piers, and flat-headed windows (39 Mowat Avenue).
20170709. A massive Mammoet self-propelled modular transport (with three 6 axle line modules) supports the new Wilkinson Eyre-designed Eaton Centre pedestrian bridge as it is fastened in place.
20170708. Ottawa’s Place Bell Parkade, a striking array of slits and slats.
20170708. A round light in a perforated square frame. Minimal Aesthetic 116. Can you guess which Ontario VIA Rail train station this is in?
