Tag Archives: brutalist
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.
20150214. Lines and exposed concrete define the lower entrance to University of Toronto’s brutalist Robarts Library.
20150201. University of Toronto’s Tartu College (c.1969) is brutalist but elegant with its thin precast cedar-board-formed concrete exterior walls.
20141207. The entrance to York University’s colossal brutalist Ross Humanities and Social Sciences Building in Toronto.
20141020. Brutalism, flowers and concrete islands at University of Toronto’s Medical Sciences Building.
20140815. The floating ramp and nice lines of the Brutalist Robarts Library (University of Toronto).
20140511. Buffalo’s City Court Building is the epitome of Brutalism (c.1974)
“The windowless walls which present an impentratable facade to Niagara Square, were designed to protect the courtrooms and judges’ chambers from outside distractions, as well as to accomodate sculpture and define space.” From “Buffalo Architecture: A Guide.”
20140426. The Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General’s Brutalist Milton Courthouse.
20140414. The brutalist Erie Basin Marina Observation Tower in Buffalo.
20140325. Brutalism in the Toronto District School Board – Central Technical School Arts Centre (c.1964, Architect Macy DuBois).
20140312. The extreme brutalism of York University’s Curtis Lecture Halls.
Perhaps the rectangular concrete masses reveal the specific functional zones of the building – lecture halls. Only a small section on the other side has windows.
20140306. The Brutalist Berkshire House in black and white (c.1974, 411 Duplex Ave, Toronto).
20140217. The Brutalist Masters building at 296 Mill Road, Markland Wood hood, Toronto (c.1976).
This building’s backside is brazenly Brutalist. I’ll capture it for a future post.
