Tag Archives: architecture
20140907. Tubular stainless steel revolving door. PWC Tower, 18 York St, Toronto.
20140906. The Cleveland Masonic Temple and Performing Arts Centre.
Built 1921, Architects Hubbell and Benes, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
20140902. The new Delta Hotel glistens and reflects a familiar structure in Toronto’s growing South Core.
Construction is almost complete in this first hotel-only tower (45 storey) constructed in Toronto in the last 20 years. Page+Steele / IBI Group Architects.
20140901. The Crile Building at the Cleveland Clinic medical center’s main campus.
Purpose: Outpatient care. Facade: banded granite. Architect: Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects. Built: 1984.
20140830. Smokestack versus wall. Minimal Aesthetic 41.
20140827. The massive columns of Convocation Hall (c.1907) at the University of Toronto.
Architects Pearson and Darling, Classical Revival architectural style.
20140825. The “béton brut” entrance to the Bahen Centre, University of Toronto St. George campus. Minimal Aesthetic 40.
20140824. The stunning Cleveland Public Library Main Branch ground floor front desk.
Unlike Toronto, you are allowed to take pictures inside the library without applying for permission!
20140820. The half-demolished 1958 Peter Dickinson modernist high-rise in Regent Park, Toronto.
20140817. White circles in glass rectangles. Minimal Aesthetic 38.
20140816. Light shines through two skylights to brighten a basement classroom in Frank Gehry’s Peter B. Lewis Bldg, Cleveland.
20140815. The floating ramp and nice lines of the Brutalist Robarts Library (University of Toronto).
20140814. The deconstructivist architecture of the Frank Gehry-designed Peter B. Lewis Building (c.2002) in Cleveland.
20140813. The protruding stairwell at the Art Gallery of Ontario, a Frank Gehry redesign. Minimal Aesthetic 37.
20140810. The rear view of the great I.M Pei’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (c.1983) in Cleveland.
I.M. Pei designed Commerce Court in Toronto.
20140804. The Cleveland Museum of Art’s new football-field-length glass atrium with original museum facade.
If you have watched the movie Captain America: The Winter Soldier, you may recognize this atrium as SHIELD headquarters.
20140706. The mirrored merlons and concrete crenels of the Atrium on Bay (c.1981, Toronto) brought to you by Game of Thrones.
20140704. The TD Canada Trust Tower at Brookfield Place in Toronto.
20140703. A narrow, new and colourful canyon of an alley beckons at the “Neighbourhoods of Riverdale” townhouse project in Toronto.
20140702. Planes of glass forest panes. Organic architecture near Bloor and Jarvis in Toronto.
20140701. The undulating waves of the Market Wharf Condo balconies. St. Lawrence hood, Toronto.
20140630. Walking along the Bloor West Lofts on a hazy sunny day (Bloor and Symington, Toronto).
20140627. An elegant exposed concrete descent into the underground (Distillery District, Toronto).
20140626. The old Canary Restaurant (c.1859), covered in platform rigging, is getting a face-lift (Pan Am Athletes’ Village or Canary District, Toronto).
