20251111. Brick or siding?
Tag Archives: apartment tower
20251027. This new trend of painting brick apartment buildings black or grey and white is awful but what a porte cochere or entrance canopy!
20250922. Slab Tower Lines.
20250905. We’ll return to POMO shortly. Here’s a mid century modern apartment building in Islington, Etobicoke, Toronto with a zigzag entrance canopy and fountain featuring a mermaid riding a merhorse fighting a spitting clam.
20250831. The gutted Villager (1968) at 88 Isabella awaits demolition after 57 years of service.
20250528. The 1984 Terra Nova Senior Citizens Building at 1289 Dundas Street West.
20250517. Demolition of a mid-century apartment building makes way for another condo at Bathurst and Barton III.
20250516. Demolition of a mid-century apartment building makes way for another condo at Bathurst and Barton II.
20250408. A fine Art Deco low-rise apartment building. From “Urban Walk IV – Midtown Apartment Buildings”
20250405. Urban Photo Walk IV is tomorrow! 2PM at the SE corner of Yonge and St. Clair.
We’ll see lots of cool apartment buildings from slab to walk-up to derelict from yonge through Forest Hill to St. Clair W station. I’ve curated a visually stimulating route and will point things out but won’t talk at you.
20250227. This is one of two excellent examples of infill developments in tower in the park environments in midtown Toronto off Soudan Ave.
20250225. The Torontonian.
20250221. A very clean Fairview Place. It’s always nice to see a well maintained apartment tower in its original brick. Don Valley Village.
20250208. The round buildings around Warden.
20241204. House Slab Tower.
20240815. Oakville 3. Life behind slats at Andrew Court.
20240814. Oakville II. The view of Oakville’s Brutalist Oak Hill from the street. What an interesting entrance.
20240813. Oakville I. Oakville’s Brutalist Oak Hill in profile.
20240804. Weeds attempt to colonize an accidental courtyard.
20240727. Porte Cochère X. Heavy Duty 135 Fenelon Drive.
20240720. Porte Cochère III. 91 Cosburn Ave. This canopy has been removed and the building painted grey and white. Don’t paint brick!
20230725. Weston 3: The low-rise with the large prominent stairwell. The brickwork to the right of the front door may suggest that this stairwell enclosure was added on. Could there be an elevator lift in there too?
20230313. The stylish encasement of a highrise in aluminum siding. Minimal Aesthetic 177.
20221123. Crowned modernism on Antibes Drive.
20221116. The Goodland Gardens Apartments, 1974.
