Tag Archives: architecture
20150510. Explore Art Deco architecture and interiors at the Design Exchange. Doors Open Toronto 2015.
20150507. Don’t forget the stunning Aga Khan Museum at Doors Open Toronto this year!
20150423. A Royal Ontario Museum abstraction: neo-Romanesque versus Deconstructivism.
20150416. Six lamps and a skylight at Toronto’s Atrium NOT on Bay.
20150415. A west view of Toronto’s concrete yet seemingly current Manulife Centre.
20150414. Wouldn’t it be lovely to live in a Pier 27 Prism?
20150410. Enter the Atrium. Toronto.
20150409. The 1913 Edwardian Classical Canadian Magazine Building (200 Adelaide W, Toronto).
20150408. Lines and steps in the shadow of Brutalism. Minimal Aesthetic 53.
20150405. The yellow at the core of Michael Lee-Chin’s Crystal. Royal Ontario Museum. Minimal Aesthetic 52.
20150402. One man versus a behemoth Brutalist building. Manulife Centre, Toronto.
20150331. Ryerson University’s Brutalist Podium building dominates O’Keefe Lane in Toronto.
20150330. Reflections mottle the east face of Toronto’s 1953 modern classical Crown Life Insurance Building.
20150328. North York’s late modernist Joseph Shepard Federal Building and its cuboid massing. Toronto, Macy DuBois Architect, 1977.
20150327. Markham’s concrete and coloured glass Unionville High School.
20150325. Glowing Stairwell in Profile. Minimal Aesthetic 51.
I liked these stairs more when they were incomplete: http://www.flickr.com/photos/vikpahwa/15747912008/
20150323. The versatility and expression of concrete exemplified at University of Toronto Scarborough.
20150321. The oblong spirals of a concrete stairwell at the University of Toronto Scarborough Campus Andrews Building.
The Andrews Building containing these stairwells was designed by the Australian architect John Andrews in 1965 who later went on to design the CN Tower.
Note the raw concrete (beton brut) look furnished by the wood forms in which the concrete was poured in place.
20150320. Frontier living in Georgian style in the upper reaches of Markham.
20150319. A modernist 55 Yonge is a cliff over the concrete canyon of Colborne St. Architect:a prolific Peter Dickinson, 1958.
20150318. Demolition of the last Dickinson-designed modernist tower in Toronto’s Regent Park is underway.
20150316. Brutalism at The Grand Hotel and former RCMP Toronto Headquarters. 1972.
20150312. The impressive black-clad River City Phase I in Toronto’s West Don lands.
20150311. The striking cantilevered entrance canopy at Toronto’s Sony Centre for the Performing Arts at dusk.
