20221111. Pre-redevelopment, post drug store.
20221110. McTamney’s, a Toronto Jeweller and Pawnbroker, on Church St is closed (find them on the Danforth) but the storefront remains until, you guessed it, redevelopment of a 57-storey condo tower.
20221109. Panel Palace. 8 York Street, Toronto.
20221108. Go 10 feet under.
20221107. Marc Garneau Collegiate Institute in Flemingdon Park.
20221106. Brutalist building facade. Bathurst and Brooke.
20221105. In one way out the other through the underground loading dock at 123 Edward.
20221104. Prepping for Redevelopment at Adelaide and Ontario in the St. Lawrence neighbourhood.
20221103. Skyscrapers in Fog. Minimal Aesthetic 175.
20221102. Rexdale Alliance Church and the curious cross.
20221101. The modernist apartment buildings of Antibes Drive
20221031. Airport Aerial. Toronto Pearson Terminal 3.
20221030. The Canada Post Ottawa Mail Processing Plant (OMPP). D’Arcy Helmer, 1970.
20221029. 10 Sunny Glenway (1973) is one of five modernist concrete highrises in Flemingdon Park, North York.
20221011. Who knew destruction could be cute? From 2012.
20221027. Now that The Bay has left the Hudson’s Bay Centre, this terrible brutalism can be replaced.
20221026. Freestyle fenestration with do-it-yourself mullions at the old Church of Scientology building on Yonge Street.
20221025. I am at High.
20221024. Elements of Modernism.
20221023. The National Library and Archives building (Mathers and Haldenby, 1967) is a classified federal heritage building. The tower housing the stacks features many small punched windows.
20221022. Construction and rehabilitation of the Royal Alexandra Bridge (1900) between Ottawa and Gatineau, a National Historic Civil Engineering Site. From 2010.
20221021. The uniquely clad postmodern St. Dunstan’s Roman Catholic Church (1981).
20221020. Reflections of modernism in contemporary glass.
20221019. Inside and outside Bemi’s Brutalist Bibliothèque (Ottawa Public Library main branch, George Bemi, 1973).
20221018. This office / apartment building complex (Kenson Towers, Crang and Boake, 1960) is all about contrast – commercial x residential, short x tall. horizontal x vertical, thick x thin, brick x concrete – all sitting on a neutral updated base.
