Tag Archives: architecture
20180119. Miesian Desk in Travertine Wall. Minimal Aesthetic 120.
20180117. 100 Bloor St W has transformed from the postmodern cliche that was Williams Sonoma to the bulky brutalistic Hermès and most impressive contemporary facade on the Mink Mile.
20180116. Living by the fast lane at the wedge-shaped Garrison at The Yards condominiums.
20180114. A polygonal cross-section of the PATH’s Skywalk.
20180113. Patterns and their projections from curtain to column.
20180112.The two ends of a roundhouse.
20180110. Lying down in a high-rise atrium. Minimal Aesthetic 119.
20180106. Swansea Public School is an amalgamation of building additions including enlargements in 1928, 1953, 1985 and 2016.
20180105. Bipedalism through translucent glass flooring at Toronto’s Brookfield Place.
An underground parking exit ramp can be made elegent with the use of patterned precast concrete.
20180101. Walking in the late winter afternoon shadow of the Harbour Plaza Residences.
20171231. Hope you have a Happy 2018! Thanks for looking!
20171228. Demolishing heritage architecture on College St to make way for the Design Haus condos.
20171227. Strong lines relate the modernist Burton Tower (McLennan Physical Laboratories) to the contemporary One Spadina (John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design) north facade.
20171226. The East United Condos will retain only the west and south facades of the 1906 Christie, Brown & Co. Stables building. See before and after images below.
20171225. One Spadina’s contemporary west entrance befits its 1875 neo-gothic half.
20171222. The medium is the message at Yonge-Dundas Square.
20171213. Facing bay 17 on the John Street Roundhouse turntable.
20171210. In Etobicoke on Resurrection Road, one can find the divine use of concrete at the Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ Catholic Church.
The Manulife North Tower, an impressive structure of mirrored glass framed by concrete, by Clifford Lawrie Bolton Richie Architects, 1983.
20171203. An aerial view of the overturned brown brick brutalist ziggurat – formerly Sears headquarters and now Ontario Government offices.
20171202. Giving that concrete slab a smooth finish high above the Garden District.
20171201. Modern symmetry at the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church.
Parkwoods United Church (1964), yet another fantastic modernist religious structure.
