Monthly Archives: November 2020
20201128. An industrial ruin in Hamilton.
20201127. The A.N. Bourns Science Building, McMaster University.
20201126. Jail is a brutalist place to be. Jail II, Justice Center Complex, Cleveland, Robert P. Madison International, 1995.
20201125. Hamilton’s brutalist hospital.
20201124. Georgian Symmetry.
20201123. The McMaster University Medical Centre’s concrete ground floor parkade mezzanine features directional art.
20201122. A fancy fence casts shadows on a striated concrete wall.
20201121. Bemi’s Brutalist Bibliothèque (Ottawa Public Library main branch).
20201120. A modern apartment high-rise with a very substantial entranceway canopy.
20201119. Brutalism at the Toronto Catholic District School Board (Concrete Architecture #13).
20201118. Dusk on Adelaide
20201117. Rocky Mountain Court (1980), a genre-defying concrete condo tower in downtown Calgary, features rounded shapes like circles and stadiums (rounded rectangles).
20201116. The rear of the former Masonic Hall (Richard Ough, 1888) at Yonge and Gloucester is prepared for construction of the Ivy, a 34-storey condominium tower.
20201115. The incredible Scott Library at York University.
20201114. The space between the Chelmsford Apartments high-rise towers.
20201113. The Phi Centre (1980) features a bronze-tinted mirrored tower on a bicoloured precast concrete podium next to a parkade above a bus terminal.
20201112. The Michael Starr Building has a fitting architectural style for the Ontario Ministry of Finance.
20201111. Thales Canada (formerly IBM) and its concrete office complex (Crang & Boake, 1982).
20201110. Looking east over the tip of Ordnance Triangle where the Union Station Rail Corridor splits.
20201109. Brutalism in the Toronto District School Board at Stephen Leacock Collegiate Institute.
20201108. The east facade of The Kingsford, a permanently closed affordable senior community in Peterborough.
20201107. Concrete eye in the sky.
20201106. Looking east along the Gatineau Hydro Corridor through Rouge Nation Urban Park and over the Rouge River.
20201105. 77 Grenville St, an Ontario Government building and former Archives of Ontario, was built at the height of Brutalism’s popularity in Canada (E. Janiss, 1972).
