Tag Archives: architecture
20181204. The Art Deco Toronto Fire Station 324.
20181203. The rear facade of Toronto’s Seventh Post Office (1853) where Conrad Black was taped removing document boxes from his office.
20181202. The colourful pedestrian bridge linking the North and South buildings of the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.
20181130. The Peace Bridge over Calgary’s Bow River, designed by Santiago Calatrava, the architect behind Sam Pollock Square in Toronto’s Brookfield Place.
20181128. Looking up at the 158 m observation deck of the 1968 Calgary Tower.
20181126. The new Union Food Court on the lower retail level of Union Station’s GO Transit terminal.
20181125. This strange, small facade conceals a much larger building that pre-dates the road (1947 Dundas W, Toronto).
20181124. Calgary’s 1968 brutalist Bow Valley College West Campus and former headquarters of the Calgary Catholic Board of Education.
20181123. Jarvis and Dundas – skyscrapers abound where there were none.
20181122. The Grid Condos facade.
20181120. The Peace Bridge over Calgary’s Bow River, designed by Santiago Calatrava, the architect behind Sam Pollock Square in Toronto’s Brookfield Place.
20181119. The E Condo facades.
20181118. Jaume Plensa’s Wonderland sculpture at the Bow (2012), designed by Foster + Partners, in downtown Calgary.
20181104. The heritage commercial block on West Queen West known as the Crocker Building (1891).
20181031. Five townhouses on a hill.
20181028. The St. Fidelis Parish, a Roman Catholic Church.
20181027. The skylight corridor at North York Civic Centre.
20181024. Bridgepoint Hospital and its shiny response to the sun.
20181016. Postmodern Contextualism at Church and Charles. Contextualism is a principle of design in which the structure is designed in response to its specific urban and natural environment.
20181015. The Yonge Sheppard Centre now sports a new expanded mall structure between formerly Brutalist towers to be clad in a gun metal grey aluminum composite material.
Photo 20181013. A postmodern nod to the Flatiron Building, 25 the Esplanade.
20191011. Looking up at the Great Hall’s intricate and varied ceiling at Union Station.
20181010. Walking through a shipping container walkway (from 2016).
20181009. The pointy postmodern St. Mark’s United Church.
