Tag Archives: architecture
20201206. Looking up at the cast iron glass dome at Toronto’s Allan Gardens Conservatory Palm House.
20201205. Deer Park United Church Cross Section.
20201204. The only similarity between the Chaz Condos and the 1966 Macy Dubois gem that it replaced is the octagonal shape of both buildings.
20201203. Beauty in coarse, grooved, poured-in-place concrete.
20201202. St. Charles Garnier Church rear, Hamilton.
20201201. The corroded but certainly once classy King William Court apartments.
20201130. The Colonnade was the first modern mixed use building in the city. Gerald Robinson and Tampold Wells Architects, 1964.
20201129. Looking up at Pittsburgh’s United Steelworkers Building (Curtis & Davis, 1963). With its steel diamond lattice exoskeleton and solid central core, no interior columns are needed.
20201127. The A.N. Bourns Science Building, McMaster University.
20201126. Jail is a brutalist place to be. Jail II, Justice Center Complex, Cleveland, Robert P. Madison International, 1995.
20201125. Hamilton’s brutalist hospital.
20201124. Georgian Symmetry.
20201123. The McMaster University Medical Centre’s concrete ground floor parkade mezzanine features directional art.
20201122. A fancy fence casts shadows on a striated concrete wall.
20201121. Bemi’s Brutalist Bibliothèque (Ottawa Public Library main branch).
20201120. A modern apartment high-rise with a very substantial entranceway canopy.
20201119. Brutalism at the Toronto Catholic District School Board (Concrete Architecture #13).
20201117. Rocky Mountain Court (1980), a genre-defying concrete condo tower in downtown Calgary, features rounded shapes like circles and stadiums (rounded rectangles).
20201116. The rear of the former Masonic Hall (Richard Ough, 1888) at Yonge and Gloucester is prepared for construction of the Ivy, a 34-storey condominium tower.
20201114. The space between the Chelmsford Apartments high-rise towers.
20201113. The Phi Centre (1980) features a bronze-tinted mirrored tower on a bicoloured precast concrete podium next to a parkade above a bus terminal.
20201112. The Michael Starr Building has a fitting architectural style for the Ontario Ministry of Finance.
20201111. Thales Canada (formerly IBM) and its concrete office complex (Crang & Boake, 1982).
20201109. Brutalism in the Toronto District School Board at Stephen Leacock Collegiate Institute.
