20220414. The Robert J. Smith Apartments. Irving Boigon, 1966, Rexdale.
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20220413. Ah the texture of exposed pebble concrete. Minimal Aesthetic #171.
20220412. The new Toronto Courthouse employs glass curtain walls that feel as impenetrable as many courthouse facades do. Minimal Aesthetic #170.
20220411. A shard of CN Tower on the Ritz.
20220410. The overlapping window frames of Ottawa’s Place Vanier towers (1971).
20220409. Toronto Dominion Centre reflected in Royal Bank Plaza.
20220406. The residential strip mall make sense. Rexdale Mews features an elevated townhouse complex with private entrances.
20220405. A little horizontal holds its own against the vertical. Minimal Aesthetic #169.
20220404. The Canadian Tire with the Googie gas bar (Rexdale, 1968, see image 20220308) features novel brick work.
20220403. Sunday is a good day for a church. Here is St. Andrew’s Roman Catholic Church in Rexdale.
20220402. The typical Etobicoke Hydro Substation was available in various colours of brick. These buildings use transformers to step down the voltage of electricity for home use.
20220401. Like a giant Y, the Tedford Gardens apartment building stretches off into the distance.
20220331. Inside a large empty industrial warehouse destined to be demolished to make way for a new and more efficient large industrial warehouse.
With Rehearsal Factory on Front Street closed, finding music rehearsal space in Toronto is harder. The building itself awaits demolition but the front facade will be saved.
20220328. The Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema has that art moderne vibe.
20220327. Fenestration can be fun at night II.
20220326. Fenestration can be fun at night.
20220324. The imposing monolithic St. Roch’s Church.
20220323. C is for curved and cylindrical and concrete. Minimal Aesthetic #168.
20220322. Although overcast here, the Toronto West Seventh Day Adventist Church casts a shadow shaped like a mountain with regular peaks.
20220320. The Holy Word Church spreads its word from a small cute Gothic Revival style building on McCaul.
20220319. The amazing Mount Olive Seventh-day Adventist Church with its high pitch curved roof (rear).
20220318. The amazing Mount Olive Seventh-day Adventist Church with its curved and spiked concave gable (front).
20220313. An Art Deco inspired parking garage in pink and orange near hospital row.
20220312. The Toronto Marine Safety School sits in the shadow of brutalism at the Westin Harbour Castle.
