20150406. 90 Warren Rd in Toronto is a 1968 European International Style departure from Uno Prii’s sculptural Modernist buildings.
20150405. The yellow at the core of Michael Lee-Chin’s Crystal. Royal Ontario Museum. Minimal Aesthetic 52.
20150404. Mixed-use modernism on Main Street in Milton (Ontario).
20150403. TTC Spadina subway station’s stimulating secondary entrance. Toronto.
20150402. One man versus a behemoth Brutalist building. Manulife Centre, Toronto.
20150401. The stylish Bayview Westbound stop on VIVA’s Highway 7 East Rapidway.
20150331. Ryerson University’s Brutalist Podium building dominates O’Keefe Lane in Toronto.
20150330. Reflections mottle the east face of Toronto’s 1953 modern classical Crown Life Insurance Building.
20150329. The capped conduits watched construction of Union UP Express station progress.
20150328. North York’s late modernist Joseph Shepard Federal Building and its cuboid massing. Toronto, Macy DuBois Architect, 1977.
20150327. Markham’s concrete and coloured glass Unionville High School.
20150326. Impressive train shed metalwork revealed by revitilization at Toronto’s Union Station.
20150325. Glowing Stairwell in Profile. Minimal Aesthetic 51.
I liked these stairs more when they were incomplete: http://www.flickr.com/photos/vikpahwa/15747912008/
20150324. The striking modern facade of the brutalist Science Wing at UofT Scarborough campus in Toronto.
20150323. The versatility and expression of concrete exemplified at University of Toronto Scarborough.
20150322. Sideways Stairwell and Sconces on a Concrete Campus. Minimal Aesthetic 50.
20150321. The oblong spirals of a concrete stairwell at the University of Toronto Scarborough Campus Andrews Building.
The Andrews Building containing these stairwells was designed by the Australian architect John Andrews in 1965 who later went on to design the CN Tower.
Note the raw concrete (beton brut) look furnished by the wood forms in which the concrete was poured in place.
20150320. Frontier living in Georgian style in the upper reaches of Markham.
20150319. A modernist 55 Yonge is a cliff over the concrete canyon of Colborne St. Architect:a prolific Peter Dickinson, 1958.
20150318. Demolition of the last Dickinson-designed modernist tower in Toronto’s Regent Park is underway.
20150316. Brutalism at The Grand Hotel and former RCMP Toronto Headquarters. 1972.
20150315. The Cathedral of the Transfiguration sits empty in the middle of the barren Cathedraltown in Markham, Ontario.
20150314. Orange light-emitting diode matrix. Minimal Aesthetic 49.
20150313. The lines of Toronto’s Terminal 1.
