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.
20210806. Modern August #6. Toronto’s modern Celestica (formerly IBM) Offices (1965) shall soon sprout buildings as high as 130 metres as the Crosstown comes to Don Mills and Eglinton.
20210805. Modern August #5. The walk-up apartment building at 71 Guildwood Parkway features overlapping entrance canopies or port cocheres.
20210804. Modern August #4. The distinctive concave facade of the Ontario Court of Justice Criminal Youth and Family Courts building. Peter Dickinson, 1957.
20210803. Modern August #3. Uno Prii’s 1968 Gallery Towers seems to be getting a facelift. 50 Stephanie Street, Toronto.
20210802. Modern August #2. Forest Grove United Church (North York, 1959).
20210801. Welcome to Modern August! #1. The hexadecagon known as Donwood Park Public School (1958).
20210731. Bridges of July #31. The Half Mile Bridge on the derelict Don Branch Railway before the barriers (from 2012).
20210730. The colourful pedestrian bridge linking the North and South buildings of the Metro Toronto Convention Centre (from 2018).
20210729. The Pennsylvania Railroad crossed the Erie Canal on this 1918 ‘warren through truss with all verticals’ bridge. Genesee Valley Park, Rochester.
20210728. Bridges of July #28. The Fredericton Railway Bridge (first train 1938, last 1996) turned Bill Thorpe Walking Bridge is 607 m long on the Trans Canada Trail (from 2016).
20210727. Bridges of July #27. Putting an underpass in scale #3. Road Bridge 054 (built 1956) – Royal York Road under Dundas Street West.
20210726. Bridges of July #26. A retro pedestrian bridge brightens the night. Health Sciences Building, University of Toronto (from 2014).
