Tag Archives: architecture
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.
20201108. The east facade of The Kingsford, a permanently closed affordable senior community in Peterborough.
20201107. Concrete eye in the sky.
20201105. 77 Grenville St, an Ontario Government building and former Archives of Ontario, was built at the height of Brutalism’s popularity in Canada (E. Janiss, 1972).
20201104. The Queen St entrance to the Sheraton Centre, a complex built to compliment City Hall directly across the street (John B. Parkin Associates, 1972).
20201103. Buffalo’s brutalist City Court Building – appropriate on election night as the next U.S. president may be determined in the courts.
20201102. Postmodern stripes of glass and brick.
20201101. The council chambers at York Civic Centre – a 1974 addition to the original 1950 building.
20201031. In the new Ordnance Triangle.
20201029. The model mid-century modern mini-mall.
20201027. Dreaming in the Financial District (Jaume Plensa, Richmond-Adelaide Centre, 2020).
20201026. The fairly pristine round zig zig roof pavilion at the Scarborough Centre for Alternative Studies .
20201025. The Agincourt Commercial Centre has interesting Brutalist elements.
20201024. The modern splendour of the Shoreline Towers portico.
20201023. The west elevation of the 1964 Guildwood Community Presbyterian Church.
20201022. This is a modest mid-century modern lovely little low-rise abode on Vaughan Road.
20201021. The most brutalist part of the former Grand Hotel has been demolished.
20201020. It is rare to see a skyscraper wrapped in plastic. Mowat Block, MacDonald Block Complex, Ontario Government. See the scaffolding below the plastic at https://bit.ly/35prG9l.
