20160426. An aerial view of the Brentwood Towers in Toronto’s Ward 22.
20160425. Concrete in the International Style.
20160424. North York next level Modernism.
20160423. A long view on an unmistakably modern Toronto apartment building.
20160422. Toronto’s Union Pearson Express, busier and cheaper than ever, is ready to take off from downtown.
20160421. The spectacular skylight and ceiling of the remarkable rotunda at Pittsburgh Union Station, now the Pennsylvanian residences.
20160420. A rear view of the Ontario Association of Architects Headquarters (Architect Ruth Cawker, 1992).
20160419. Yes, Toronto has an abandoned highway on-ramp.
20160418. Crews perform spring maintenance tasks on Toronto’s Don Valley Parkway during this past weekend’s closure.
20160417. Toronto’s finest parkade is plain brutalist concrete.
20140416. An aerial view of Toronto’s new Picasso Condominium Tower and its red-accented cubic white volumes by Teeple Architects Inc.
20160415. An impressive Concourse Building facsimile (100 Adelaide St W) has returned to our skyline embedded in the EY Tower, replete with fine Art Deco detailing.
20160414. The repeating poured concrete menorah motifs of the 1959 Beth David B’nai Israel Beth Am Synagogue.
20160413. A bird’s eye view of a smokestack perch at TTC’s Davisville Yard.
20160412. Under Pittsburgh’s Interstate 579, a younger and cleaner elevated expressway than Toronto’s Gardiner.
20160411. A man puts a highway overpass into scale (showing just how much space fast moving vehicles need).
20160410. The unusual Bergeron Centre for Engineering Excellence at York University’s Keele Campus.
20160409. The Portal Bridge to Pittsburgh’s Point State Park.
20160408. A pyramidal view of Pittsburgh’s United Steelworkers Building. Curtis & Davis, 1963.
The exterior diamond lattice of steel provides form and function. With such a load-bearing exoskeleton and a solid central core, no interior columns are needed providing large open interior spaces.
20160407. A platform with a view.
20160406. Sadly, one of the most expressive Modernist buildings in Toronto, Davisville Junior Public School, is at grave risk of being demolished.
Architect Peter Pennington, 1962.
20160405. Crossing Pittsburgh’s Monongahela River on a Port Authority of Allegheny County LRV.
20160404. East elevation of Toronto’s once Consumers Gas Co. Purifying House No. 2 and now the Canadian Opera Company’s Opera Theatre.
Architects Strictland and Symens, 1888, Renaissance Revival.
The building was designed in the style of an early Christian basilica with a clerestory roof. It may have been built as a self-supporting structure and simply placed on top of the building so that any explosion would raise it without destroying the walls (from the COC’s website).
20160403. Reception and Transmission above downtown Toronto.
