Tag Archives: architecture
20180326. Masterful modernism at Cedarbrae Collegiate Institute. Scarborough, Toronto, Allward & Gouinlock, 1959.
20180324. The massive hulking brutalist entrance to the modernist Cedarbrae Collegiate Institute.
20180323. Arbor Glen Public School through its own portal. Toronto, Moriyama & Teshima, 1975.
20180322. Tout est possible at the modernist École Élémentaire Pierre-Elliott-Trudeau.
20180321. The striking yet simple design of the Bickford Centre (formerly Bickford Park High School, Toronto Board of Education, 1965).
20180320. Classic Brutalism at Tecumseh Senior Public School by Fairfield and DuBois (1967).
20180318. Brutalist ghost wall.
20180317. Brutalism in the Toronto District School Board – Stephen Leacock Collegiate Institute.
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.
