20141106. The Bank of America’s modernist tower with pavilion reflecting the building’s stilts. Rochester, c.1962.
20141105. Living the high-life in mixed-income Regent Park (Paintbox Condos left; 252 Sackville Toronto Community Housing right).
20141104. The abandoned modernist Terrence Building at Rochester’s Psychiatric Center campus (open 1959-1995).
20141103. An aerial view of Ryerson University’s nearly completed and highly unusual Student Learning Centre in Toronto.
Architects: Zeidler Partnership Architects (Toronto) and, Snøhetta (Oslo).
The Student Learning Centre is built on land once occupied by the famous Sam the Record Man and its giant turning neon records.
20141102. Today, the 1964-seat Theater on the Ridge (Kodak Building 28, c.1959) was officially occupied by the Rochester Association of the Performng Arts (RAPA).
20141101. The curves of Toronto’s Union Station streetcar platform are a familiar sight once again.
20141031. Entering Rochester’s abandoned subway (closed 1956), built in a former Erie Canal.
20141030. The empty, decaying yet classical modernist Duke of York public school (c.1958) in Toronto’s Regent Park.
The property on which this former Toronto District School Board school sits has been purchased by the Toronto Catholic District School Board. Due to its bad state of repair, it will most likely be demolished.
20141029. At one time, the Pennsylvania Railroad crossed the Erie Canal on this bridge. Genesee Valley Park, Rochester.
20141028. A beautiful old CSX(?) railway bridge traverses the Erie Canal in Genesee Valley Park.
20141027. Soon to be the last of 5 1958 modernist high-rises in Toronto’s Regent Park, will this empty building’s heritage status save it?
20141026. Circular patterns emerge in sunlight at Toronto’s TIFF Bell Lightbox building (KPMB Architects, 2010). What causes them?
20141025. Ramps bisect the open atrium of Rochester’s South Avenue Parking Garage.
20141024. Looking down the rear of the Trader’s Bank Building in Toronto (67 Yonge St, Architects Carrère and Hastings, c.1906).
20141023. Rochester’s outstanding Chase Tower on its side (Architect John Graham, c.1973).
20141022. The Sun Life Financial building at One York rises east of the 10 York Condo pit in Toronto.
20141021. Rochester’s impressive and unusual Andrews Terrace apartment building (Architects Bertin & O’Connell, c.1975).
20141020. Brutalism, flowers and concrete islands at University of Toronto’s Medical Sciences Building.
20141019. Downtown Rochester is a compelling confluence of varying architectural eras and styles.
20141018. The modernist, concrete Main Square Towers at Main and Danforth in Toronto.
20141017. Toronto’s first pedestrian overpass over an off-ramp connecting two new towers.
20141016. Margaret Addison Hall – University of Toronto’s curved student residences (c.1959).
20141015. Concrete wall meets metal fence and void. Minimal Aesthetic 44.
20141014. From this height and viewpoint the CN Tower dwarfs every other building.
