Tag Archives: architecture
20180316. Electrical paraphernalia and their shadows on a precast concrete school wall. Minimal Aesthetic 123.
20180315. Triangular prism shaped buildings such as the 1958 modernist Mimico Presbyterian Church have interesting side elevations.
20180313. The modernist triangular north elevation of the 1958 Mimico Presbyterian Church.
20180312. Play basketball circa 1961 at Glen Ames Senior Public School in The Beaches.
20180311. John B. Parkin had a particular interest in designing school buildings in the modernist style including the 1942 Sunnylea Junior School shown here with its 1948 addition.
The late modern St. Matthew’s R.C. Church. 706 Old Weston Road, Keelesdale-Eglinton West.
20180307. The 1959 modernist Winona Drive Public School.
The north face of the brutalist A.Y. Jackson Secondary School at sunset.
20180303. The elegantly modernist 55 Ellerslie Ave, one of two excurvate buildings that face each other. Managed by Park Willow Developments and owned by M&R Holdings.
The modernist Cummer Avenue United Church may soon be surrounded by condominium towers. Reference No. 11 287471 NNY 24 OZ and 11 287481 NNY 24 SB.
20180222. The Holy Angels Roman Catholic Church is a modest postmodern structure straddling industrial and residential areas in Islington.
20180221. Postmodernism put to good use at Jessie’s – The June Callwood Centre for Young Women.
A nondescript building somewhere between modern and postmodern awaits demolition to make way for ‘home: Power and Adelaide,’ a block-sized mixed-use development in Corktown.
20180212. Etobicoke’s Viceroy Building is a tiny, old modernist gem; sitting on slender columns, its bulk seems to defy gravity (wide-angle version).
WE ARE LAW and this is interesting architecture.
Strange architectural bedfellows – colossal and contemporary contrasting with modest, modernist and moderne – until the older building sprouts its own office tower.
20180202. The urban fabric of the Fashion District.
20180131. The facade of the 1889 Romanesque Revival Frederick Crompton Building, embedded in the HSBC Building (70 York St), includes rustic stone cladding and the repitition of round-arched arcades.
20180130. This fine specimen of 1878 industrial architecture at 15 Mercer St., built by Langley, Langley & Burke as stables for Verral Cab, Omnibus and Baggage Transfer Co., shall play facade for the 45-storey twin tower Nobu Residences, a condo, hotel, dining complex owned by Nobu Hospitality, a chain founded partly by Robert DeNiro.
20180127. Looking up at Cloverdale Mall.
20180126. Deconstructing the Richmond-Adelaide Centre – a complex of buildings by WZMH Architects spanning 51 years with a temporary trailer terrace addition.
20180125. At the Westbank Honest Ed’s development, Trainers Fitness topples next to the AltermaThinking holdout (and pretty neat store). #Toronto #redevelopment #architecture #demolition @VillageMirvish @Mirvish_Village @MirvishVillage @UrbStrat
20180124. This small block of heritage buildings at Duncan and Adelaide shall sprout two 55-plus-storey condo towers.
Beautiful brick brutalism vs ugly postmodernism.
