Tag Archives: architecture
Check out an excellent example of adaptive reuse in architecture at QRC West during Doors Open Toronto.
20160516. A warehouse demolition reveals an appealing steel frame in Toronto’s Riverside neighbourhood.
Demolition of this former concrete warehouse makes way for the large Riverside Square development by Streetcar Developments.
20160514 Today marks 5 years for this photo blog. Thanks for looking!
20160513. A rooftop view of Toronto’s River City Phase 2.
20160507. A rippled reflection in a grand canopy of the street in front of me.
20160504. Beauty in a brick and beam building near Bathurst St in Toronto.
20160429. Birds need not fret the fritted glass at the newest George Brown College residence.
20160427. Taking a Quantum Coffee leap at the Brainstation below.
20160421. The spectacular skylight and ceiling of the remarkable rotunda at Pittsburgh Union Station, now the Pennsylvanian residences.
20160420. A rear view of the Ontario Association of Architects Headquarters (Architect Ruth Cawker, 1992).
20160417. Toronto’s finest parkade is plain brutalist concrete.
20140416. An aerial view of Toronto’s new Picasso Condominium Tower and its red-accented cubic white volumes by Teeple Architects Inc.
20160415. An impressive Concourse Building facsimile (100 Adelaide St W) has returned to our skyline embedded in the EY Tower, replete with fine Art Deco detailing.
20160414. The repeating poured concrete menorah motifs of the 1959 Beth David B’nai Israel Beth Am Synagogue.
20160410. The unusual Bergeron Centre for Engineering Excellence at York University’s Keele Campus.
20160408. A pyramidal view of Pittsburgh’s United Steelworkers Building. Curtis & Davis, 1963.
The exterior diamond lattice of steel provides form and function. With such a load-bearing exoskeleton and a solid central core, no interior columns are needed providing large open interior spaces.
20160406. Sadly, one of the most expressive Modernist buildings in Toronto, Davisville Junior Public School, is at grave risk of being demolished.
Architect Peter Pennington, 1962.
20160404. East elevation of Toronto’s once Consumers Gas Co. Purifying House No. 2 and now the Canadian Opera Company’s Opera Theatre.
Architects Strictland and Symens, 1888, Renaissance Revival.
The building was designed in the style of an early Christian basilica with a clerestory roof. It may have been built as a self-supporting structure and simply placed on top of the building so that any explosion would raise it without destroying the walls (from the COC’s website).
20160401. Sun shines off the silver steel skin of Pittsburgh’s One Gateway Center (Eggers and Higgins, 1952).
20160331. Sunset reflections dapple Toronto’s Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery.
The building that is The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery was built in 1926 as the powerhouse that housed the heating and refrigeration equipment for the Toronto Terminal Warehouse, now the Queen’s Quay Terminal. The building was renovated and reopened in 1987.
20160330. Brick Brutalist Baptist Building.
Northminster Baptist Church, Jane-Finch neighbourhood, North York, Toronto.
20160329. Pittsburgh’s Postmodern Glass Gothic PPG Place.
20160328. Remembering the Art Deco Loblaw Groceterias Warehouse (Lakeshore and Bathurst, Toronto) before demolition.
Sparling, Morton and Forbes, c.1928.
20160327. Looking up Pittsburgh’s 1959-built Wyndham Grand Hotel, an example of the city’s marvelous mid-century modernism.
