Monthly Archives: August 2017
20170529. Looking up at Toronto’s Citigroup Place (123 Front Street West).
20170828. Toronto’s bank building skyline from below and the ex-Trump Adelaide Hotel.
Looking up at Metropolitan Place (1 University Avenue).
20170826. Cuboids massing above the Rosedale Valley Ravine.
Looking up at church.
The colourful concrete corridor into Corktown Common.
20170823. The Executive Offices facade of the Queen Elizabeth Building with its folded-plate concrete roof.
20170822. West end perspective on the elevated Gardiner Expressway at Exhibition Place.
20170821. The east point of the Howard Park Rresidences triangle.
High-rise living at Charles and Balmuto.
20170819. The brutalist expressionist facade of circular ramps at Pittsburgh’s Smithfield-Liberty Garage.
20170818. From concourse to platform through an artful passageway at Sheppard West (formerly Downsview) station.
The cuboid vestibule inside the new Concourse Building inside the new EY Tower
20170816. Catching a glimpse of the CN Tower and Edgewalkers through the Pinnacle Centre.
Underneath the Dream House at Ice Condos. Vong Phaophanit and Claire Oboussier, 2015.
Industrial park brutalism at Canada Post’s Toronto South Central Letter Processing Plant.
20170813. The blank facade of Uno Prii’s 1972 Spadina Towers in the park.
20170812. Pittsburgh’s Sixth and Penn parking garage is a modernist gem designed by architect Ryan Avedissian who was demoted due to his obsession with abstraction.
University of Ottawa’s Brutalist Morisset Hall was built in 1972 to centralize library system administration.
20170810. Taking a close up look at the 1973 modern Munich RE Centre.
20170809. One Spadina’s Atrium in profile. This space provides seating for the Principal Hall and is a stepped passageway from the Commons below to the Design Studio above and its bow-tie roof and clerestory windows.
20170808. Taking shelter under Brutalism. University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC) Andrews Building, Science Wing.
A most unusual enclosed external building staircase.
20170806. Inside One Spadina’s front door.
