20210831. Modern August #31. Many of Toronto’s finest mid-century modern buildings face the same risk as this now demolished strip mall in Victoria Village.
20210830. Modern August #30. Whites Location Equipment Supply has equipped the film industry for over 50 years from this massive modern warehouse.
20210829. Modern August #29. Rexdale Public Library opened in 1959 and was renovated in 1991.
20210828. Modern august#28. Whites Location Equipment Supply has equipped the film industry for over 50 years from this massive modern warehouse.
20210827. Modern August #27. The 1965 Bell Telephone building podium and tower at 76 Adelaide St W just lost its very thoughtful facade. Note how the brown exchange building in the background has a similar fenestration. Will the new facade be this thoughtful?
20200605. Whites Location Equipment Supply has equipped the film industry for over 50 years from this massive modern warehouse.
20210826. Modern August #26. Seeya Celestica as you make way for the Crosstown Community.
20210825. Modern August #25. An office building with a zig zag canopy is an unusual sight. Sadly, the Wilson and Bathurst Medical Centre may be redeveloped.
20210824. Modern August #24. John B. Parkin’s forever contemporary Ortho Pharmaceutical Building (1955).
20210823. Modern August #23. The 1973 Islington St. Andrews Toronto Community Housing high-rise development has a entirely unique architecture.
20210822. Modern August (#22) would not be complete without including the semi-circular Riverdale Hospital (1963), demolished in 2013 to make way for the Bridgepoint Hospital.
20210820. Modern August #20. This mid-century modern transformer home (shell house with equipment that steps down voltage for home use) has fine detailing in both front and rear.
20210819. Modern August #19. The 44 Wellesworth neighbourhood plaza (1960) with the 6-12 Variety Store, probably two of the most functionally named places around.
20210818. Modern August #18. The handsome Dominion of Canada General Insurance Company building at 165 University Avenue opened on September 11, 1962.
20210817. Modern August #17. A doomed mid-20th Century mall.
20210816. Modern August #16. The triangle is ubiquitous in modernist churches as seen here at the 1966 Immanuel Baptist Church in Hillcrest Village.
20210815. Modern August #15. Triangular north elevation of Mimico Presbyterian Church (1958).
20210814. Modern August #14. The Trillium Apartments with its funky concrete port cochere and fountain.
20210813. Modern August #13. Castle Frank Station
20210812. Modern August #12. The spectacular mid-century modern Humber Valley United Church (1953).
20210811. Modern August #11. The tight zigzag roofiline of the Plast Huculak Centre, a Ukrainian Youth Organization.
20210810. Modern August #10. The curved mid-century modern strip mall at Cedar Heights Plaza.
20210809. Modern August #9. St. Ansgar Lutheran Church is yet another fine modernist edifice.
20210808. Modern August #8. The Evangeline Residence is the second largest women’s shelter in Toronto (from 2017 – the facade is a little less colourful now).
20210807. Modern August #7. The chapel’s impressive facade of brick, stone and copper at St. John Henry Newman Catholic High School may soon be no more than a facade as the school is replaced.
