Tag Archives: architecture
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.
20181008. The 1973 postmodern L’Amoreaux Collegiate Institute by Moriyama & Teshima Architects.
20181004. The rejuvenated towers of Maple Leaf Quay.
20181003. The Park Hyatt Hotel revitalization project is underway converting this 1929 tower to luxury rental units.
20181002. The glass balconies of the Casa Condominiums (33 Charles St E).
20181001. Head down to the Manulife Centre to see how to mess up a Brutalist masterpiece. The images below show the building before and during the so-called revitalization.
20180925. The perpendicular lines of HVAC enclosures and concrete at the Ontario Power Generation corporate head office.
20180920. MOCA Toronto (Museum of Contemporary Art) opens this weekend in the Tower Automotive Building at 158 Sterling Road.
20180919. A deteriorated and fire-damaged 1871 Gothic revival house on Peter Street awaits facadism and redevelopment.
