20221017. Interesting angles, exposed pipes and smokestack at the Power Plant (Murray and Murray, 1973), providing district heating and cooling at University of Ottawa.
Tag Archives: 1972
20220701. The Major-General George R. Pearkes Building, occupied by National Defence. Happy Canada Day!
20220407. York Centre’s pellucid postmodern passageway to the PATH.
20220207. A connection with your reflection at Commerce Court (the two limestone buildings are to be replaced).
20211013. Uno Prii’s 666 Spadina looks new again.
20210624. Brutalist June continues with Brutalism #24. Béton brut is the term used to describe concrete left unfinished after being cast like here at the Sheraton Centre Toronto.
20210613. Brutalist June continues with Brutalism 13 – demolished brutalism at The Grand Hotel and former RCMP Toronto Headquarters.
20210519. A reskinned modern apartment tower at Teesdale Place. Here’s the building before the new shell – https://bit.ly/2Qv9nw2.
20210313. Looking up at the main entrance of the postmodern Rogers corporate campus at Jarvis and Bloor.
20210312. Sheraton Centre Toronto tower in profile.
20210304. Uno Prii’s 1972 666 Spadina Ave is looking spiffy after its recent revitalization.
20201105. 77 Grenville St, an Ontario Government building and former Archives of Ontario, was built at the height of Brutalism’s popularity in Canada (E. Janiss, 1972).
20201104. The Queen St entrance to the Sheraton Centre, a complex built to compliment City Hall directly across the street (John B. Parkin Associates, 1972).
20201021. The most brutalist part of the former Grand Hotel has been demolished.
20200723. The west facade of Islington Square (1243 Islington Ave). G. Edward Lutman, 1972.
20200407. Stairs and shiny stainless steel at Commerce Court West. I.M Pei, 1972.
20200322. The Sheraton Centre Toronto has some nice lines. John B. Parkin Associates with design consultant Seppo Valjus, 1972.
20180610. A blank facade at the modernist University of Toronto Chestnut Residence and former Colony Hotel.
20170813. The blank facade of Uno Prii’s 1972 Spadina Towers in the park.
University of Ottawa’s Brutalist Morisset Hall was built in 1972 to centralize library system administration.
20170504. York Centre’s pellucid postmodern passageway to the Toronto PATH.
