20220624. Pinecrest Public School features two concentric circles of zig zag roof. Craig Madill Abram & Ingleson, 1961.
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20220623. An abstract bronze sculpture by Charles Daudelin (1969) at the National Arts Centre. Anyone know what it’s called?
20220622. Enter the First Unitarian Congregation of Ottawa – built in 1967 for $45,000.
20220621. The 1090 Ambleside Drive parking garage with striated concrete and matching window bars.
20220619. Vanier Hall, University of Ottawa, 1954.
20220614. Concrete architecture is timeless. At once modern, contemporary and futuristic.
20220613. Entering the untouched part of the (National Arts Centre). I love concrete, especially the large aggregate stuff. Let’s spend some time in Ottawa, a city that has grown on me in the last few days of touring. Ottawa modernism rivals Toronto easily!
20220612. Balconies at the Bay Charles tower (at 57 Charles St) cast the perfect shadows resulting in diagonal stripes between them.
20220611. Muscular Modernist Midrise.
20220605. The Woodbine Acres Senior Housing Unit looks very much like a school.
202020604. These days a lot of modern churches need protection from the elements. Ti Agia Maria & St Demiana Church.
20220603. The one-of-a-kind 1959 Church of Saint Demetrius the Great Martyr (Byzantine Ukrainian Catholic).
20220602. Tower Hill East (left, 1966) vs. Tower Hill West (1969) – both fully enclosed in balconies.
20220601. Coming upon an apartment building hexagon. June is Modernist Month featuring images from Toronto and Ottawa.
20220530. The googie ice cream bar (@tomsdairyfreeze, The Queensway, 1969). Googie architecture (AKA expressionist, mid-century modern, space age, populuxe, doo wop) originated in 1930s Los Angeles and features curvilinear geometric shapes and upswept roofs.
20220528. The funky port-cochere at 2413 Islington Ave features trapezoidal concrete supports with round openings in them.
20220527. Tower Hill East (1966) is where entire facades are balconies.
20220525. The Toronto Hydro-Electric System Windsor Station shadow font.
20220524. Beautiful 1937 Art Deco with Mirrored Glass in Midtown Toronto.
20220522. Artik Promotional Products (314 Adelaide St E) sits in a very long industrial building built in 1919.
20220521. Looking up inside a symmetrical square residential tower.
20220520. The Grand Harbour condominium tower complex is a decent postmodern highrise. Oh no, is postmodern architecture growing on me?
20220519. What’s next for these three abandoned buildings on Mimico Avenue? From left to right: Union Bank Building (1924), Anthony Joseph Building (1929), John Mackenzie and Son Dairy (1920).
20220518. The Elmbank Community Centre looks like a big postmodern robot head.
20220517. The Quad Student Residence at York University. #toronto #torontoarchitecture #architecture
