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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.
20150308. The unique 1971 modernist Building T pumping station in Toronto’s Pump House Park.
The attributes that make this building unique include the circular plan, the engaged inverted engaged catenary arches on the lower wall and the taller engaged catenary arches on the upper wall with fins that extend beyond the original roofline. Unfortunately, the recently added metal penthouse (or cap on top) obscures these fins from view and diminishes the brilliant original design that you can see at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pumping_station_in_Ashbridges_Bay_Toronto.jpg. This pumping station is officially known as the Mid-Toronto Interceptor Pumping Station but being a part of the Ashbridges Bay Treatment Plant, it goes by the name Building T.
20150307. The space between houses offers a break in the banality in Toronto’s King West Village.
20150306. The space age exit of Toronto’s Fort York Visitor Centre to the Garrison Commons.
20150302. Toronto’s modern, functional, handsome yet understated St. George TTC Subway transformer station (1963).
20150226. The Ryerson Student Learning Centre’s dramatic entrance at night. Toronto.
Zeidler Partnership Architects and Snohetta. 2015.
20150222. The indelible Yonge St face of Toronto’s new Ryerson University Student Learning Centre.
20150221. The shiny rear exterior of the new Ryerson Student Learning Centre.
20150220. The impressive main floor atrium inside Toronto’s new Ryerson Student Learning Centre opening Monday.
20150219. The first look inside the amazing new Ryerson Student Learning Centre that opens this coming Monday! The Beach is the completely open 6th floor gathering space, ciomplete with water, sand and sun.
20150218. University of Toronto’s Brutalist Tartu College seems to lift off the ground as if supported only by its thin end walls.
Tampold Architects, 1969.
20150217. Toronto’s Daniel Libeskind designed L Tower and its angular chamfered SW corner.
20150216. York University’s award-winning Seymour Schulich Building and Executive Learning Centre in Toronto. Hariri Pontarini Architects, 2004.
Hariri Pontarini Architects in joint venture with Robbie/Young + Wright Architects designed this building, a 2006 Governor General Medal in Architecture winner.
20150214. Lines and exposed concrete define the lower entrance to University of Toronto’s brutalist Robarts Library.
20150213. Pipes and handrails follow stairwell contours in Toronto’s TTC Pape Subway station.
20150212. The Shim-Sutcliffe Architects award-winning Sisters of the St. Joseph Residence (East York, Toronto).
This is a hospital / assisted-living centre with impressive green features including integrated solar panels, geothermal heating and cooling, a green roof and permeable pavers in the parking lot to reduce water runoff.
20150211. Below the metal canopy of the Allen Lambert Galleria at Toronto’s Brookfield Place.
20150210. With Global Village Backpackers’ Hostel now closed, what’s next for this 1875 Second Empire building at King and Spadina?
This building was originally the Richardson House. It was built in 1875 but then modified in 1882 and 1890. In 1917 it became the Spadina Hotel where Leonard Cohen and the Rolling Stones played, a Jack Nicholson film was made and Ernest Hemingway stayed. In 1997 it became the Global Village Backpacker’s Hostel. Late last year the owner died and the place was quickly closed up.