Tag Archives: architecture
20210816. Modern August #16. The triangle is ubiquitous in modernist churches as seen here at the 1966 Immanuel Baptist Church in Hillcrest Village.
20210815. Modern August #15. Triangular north elevation of Mimico Presbyterian Church (1958).
20210808. Modern August #8. The Evangeline Residence is the second largest women’s shelter in Toronto (from 2017 – the facade is a little less colourful now).
20210807. Modern August #7. The chapel’s impressive facade of brick, stone and copper at St. John Henry Newman Catholic High School may soon be no more than a facade as the school is replaced.
20210806. Modern August #6. Toronto’s modern Celestica (formerly IBM) Offices (1965) shall soon sprout buildings as high as 130 metres as the Crosstown comes to Don Mills and Eglinton.
20210805. Modern August #5. The walk-up apartment building at 71 Guildwood Parkway features overlapping entrance canopies or port cocheres.
20210804. Modern August #4. The distinctive concave facade of the Ontario Court of Justice Criminal Youth and Family Courts building. Peter Dickinson, 1957.
20210730. The colourful pedestrian bridge linking the North and South buildings of the Metro Toronto Convention Centre (from 2018).
20210722. Bridges of July #22. The pedestrian bridge over Finch Avenue from Old Cummer GO Station.
20210721. Bridges of July #21. The covered concrete and glass walkway along the Progress Avenue overpass above McCowan Ave.
20210709. Bridges of July #9. A Mammoet self-propelled modular transport with 72 wheels supports the new Eaton Centre pedestrian bridge as it is fastened in place.
20210707. Bridges of July #7. Heading west, here is the Peace Bridge over Calgary’s Bow River, designed by Santiago Calatrava, the architect behind Sam Pollock Square in Toronto’s Brookfield Place.
20210706. Bridges of July #06. The Puente De Luz pedestrian bridge under construction in 2011. The ‘Bridge of Light’ takes people from Front Street to CityPlace.
20210630. Brutalist June ends with Brutalism #30 – Brutalist Gateway to the Underground circa 1974.
20210629. Brutalist June continues with Brutalism #29. Brutalism in the Toronto Catholic District School Board.
20210628. Brutalist June continues with Brutalism #28. Pillars support the Beverley Halls (former Polish Combatants’ Hall) above a parking garage. Wieslaw Wodkiewicz, 1973.
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.
20210622. Brutalist June continues with Brutalism #22. An impeccable brutalist office tower by Crang & Boake (1982).
20210621. Brutalist June continues with Brutalism 21 – Brutalist Ventilation at the George Drew Complex.
20210619. June Is Brutalism Month! Brutalist-19. The other side of Toronto’s Masters condominiums feature funky concrete stairwells.
20210618. Brutalist June Continues! Brutalism #18. Concrete Stairwell Enclosure. Veteren Residence, Sunnybrook Hospital, Toronto.
20210617. It’s Brutalist June! Brutalist 17 – The 1969 Allan I. Carswell Astronomical Observatory at York University.
20210615. Brutalist June 15. Living in Brutalism at Moss Park’s 1974 Centrepoint East high-rise complex.
20210614. Brutalist June continues with Brutalism 14 – Concrete canyon on the Canada Life Campus.
