Category Archives: photos
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.
20170805. 2 x QRC West.
20170804. A block of brutalism with slits on stilts. Cleveland Justice Center Complex.
A red car enveloped by a multi-hued red brick-walled driveway.
Brutalism in the Toronto Catholic District School Board at Blessed Archbishop Romero Catholic Secondary School.
The round stained glass skylight in Casa Loma’s conservatory. E.J. Lennox, 1913, Gothic Revival.
20170731. International Style Brutalism in Buffalo at One Seneca Place – 40 storeys of foreclosure, sale and redevelopment.
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.
