20240804. Weeds attempt to colonize an accidental courtyard.
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20220511. Formerly TEB Interiors, 853 Kingston Road is a cute little art deco building in The Beaches.
20211204. Merton 3. Merton Street’s stock of unusual buildings includes this bulky modern concrete and brick structure at 250 Merton.
20211201-Merton1. Merton Street an excellent collection of interesting buildings including 170 Merton, the painted brick brutalist brokerage.
20210908. The interiors of the former IBM offices (John B, Parkin Associatiates, 1965) have been stripped but the facades will remain under the Crosstown III tower.
20210806. Modern August #6. Toronto’s modern Celestica (formerly IBM) Offices (1965) shall soon sprout buildings as high as 130 metres as the Crosstown comes to Don Mills and Eglinton.
20210801. Welcome to Modern August! #1. The hexadecagon known as Donwood Park Public School (1958).
20210528. 4D or not 4D. That is the question. The unique concrete shade structures appear around the top and south sides of all windows for ‘heavy’ shade. Also interesting is how the entrances respond to the slope of the ground with more steps, a longer handrail and a thicker concrete pad.
20210506. Etobicoke’s unornamented Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1962).
20210505. Kingsway Lodge No. 655 is an unusual and unadorned masonic centre (1966).
20210422. The grand entrance of Wilson Manor.
20210328. The ornate west facade of a modern walk-up apartment at 2643 Keele Street.
20210327. The ornate west facade of a modern walk-up apartment at 2641 Keele Street.
20200415. The brutalist SickKids Centre for Community Mental Health (formerly the Hincks Dellcrest Centre) at Jarvis and Wellesley. Shore & Moffat, 1967.
20200123. Modernist Congregation B’Nai Torah.
20191216. Although the days of old Alexandra Park’s brutalist brick townhomes are numbered, they continue to intrigue with unexpected symmetry.
20180411. Situated in The Beaches is the 1974 bulky brick Balmy Beach Community School.
Beautiful brick brutalism vs ugly postmodernism.
A most unusual enclosed external building staircase.
20170723. The brick brutalism of the Bayview Glen Alliance Church rear campus.
20170601. York University’s Assiniboine Towers are a handsome group of buildings with subtle variations.
20170128. A psychedelic mid-century modernist brick wall at 103 Avenue Road featuring alternating smooth-turquoise-stretcher and buff-yellow-header brick. Minimal Aesthetic 106.
20170126. Fifteen fenestra facade at the doomed LCBO warehouse. Minimal Aesthetic 105.
20161019. Looking up at the wonderful massing at Toronto’s Berkeley Castle (1868).
20160927. Although Regent Park is widely criticized, its low-rise buildings have some appeal.
