20220311. A Ledbury Park modern mid-rise office building awaits demolition. Interesting features include curved brise soleil at the top and a semi-elliptical walkway.
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20220310. This mixed-use strip mall features a breeze wall on the upper floor providing privacy to renters.
20220309. Rexdale Mall was built in 1956, enclosed in 1972, demolished in 2004 yet the former Zellars/Towers structure survives as the Fresh Value grocery store and a bunch of small businesses – a true Remnant of Mid-Century Toronto.
20220308. The googie gas bar (Canadian Tire, Rexdale, 1968). Googie architecture can also be called expressionist, mid-century modern, space age, Populuxe and Doo Wop and originates at the defunct Googies Coffee Shop in Hollywood. The style features curvilinear geometric shapes and upswept roofs.
20220307. This postmodern fire station references elements of classical residential architecture including a gable, tower and portico. The brick colours match nearby buildings. Interestingly, the facades opposite seem postmodern too.
20220305. A most unusual parking garage in Forest Hill is fronted by an apartment that must have the strangest floor plan.
20220304. Modern apartment tower ornament may inlcude a rooftop zig-flat-zag canopy.
20220302. Founders Residence courtyard entrance, York University. John B. Parkin Associates, 1965.
20220301. Living in Brutalism.
20220228. Brutalist OISE. Kenneth R. Cooper, 1969.
20220227. A shiny and angular condo tower stairwell enclosure at Harris Square.
20220226. The unique Chaplin Place condos by Shar-Dee Towers Limited, 1984.
20220224. As the pigeon flies … by the modern facade (45 Carlton St., Edward I. Richmond, 1981).
20220223. The Three Sisters of Sussex. Only the middle sister (aka the low energy retrofit Gemini House) kept her hat. University of Toronto, Second Empire, 1879.
20220222. Bracing a facade of built Heritage (John James Funston grocery store, 1885). Happy day of twos!
20220221. The modern building at the Dufferin Gate to Exhibition Place.
20220220. 50 Green Belt Drive, the site of a 2008 double murder-suicide and arson is to be demolished for redevelopment. This building was included in ERA’s 2010 inventory of North York’s modernist architecture.
20220219. This bird turd covered structure at Islington Tower serves as a parking garage exit; fire department connection and garage ventilation.
20220218. The Barrett Centre For Technology Innovation, Perkins & Will, 2019.
20220217. Art Deco Horse Palace (J.J. Woolnough, 1931).
20220216. The recladding of Parkin’s Simpson Tower includes black white walls at street level – for digital advertising perhaps?
20220215. Looking up at the bottom of the table top at OCAD.
20220214. Looking up at Princess Margaret Hospital.
20220213. Now that’s an entrance canopy!
20220211. The gaudy, postmodern and slightly medieval Twentieth Street Junior School.
