Tag Archives: brutalist
20200823. A fine plain brutalist parkade in a North York industrial park.
20200821. Metro modernism against a brutalist backdrop. St. George Station and the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto (2/2).
20200820. Metro modernism against a brutalist backdrop. St. George Station and the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at University of Toronto (1/2).
20200812. The beautiful brutalist Masters Condominiums Building B at 296-300 Mill Road, Markland Wood, Etobicoke, Toronto (Kelton Architects & Planners, 1976).
20200805. The High Point Mall Medical Centre in Mississauga. Not sure whether it’s the high point of medical care but look at the coarse aggregate concrete!
20200724. Brutalist Ventilation on an Incline. George Drew Complex.
20200705. Sometimes the demolition of one building reveals an impressive view of another. Jorgensen Hall, Ryerson University, WZMH Architects, 1971.
20200704. Bell Brutalism.
20200622. High-rise Brutalism at the Chelmsford Apartments in Agincourt.
20200621. Brutalism at the Toronto Star Building (1971) includes coarse aggregate concrete.
20200618. The massive brutalist shell around the seed of the planetarium.
20200501. The patterned concrete of the enwave Walton Street Steam Plant north facade.
20200419. The back (but not the altar side) of St. Wilfrid’s Roman Catholic Church seems more like a Brutalist air traffic control tower.
20200415. The brutalist SickKids Centre for Community Mental Health (formerly the Hincks Dellcrest Centre) at Jarvis and Wellesley. Shore & Moffat, 1967.
20200411. Demolition on Elizabeth Street has revealed some fine brutalism at the Enwave Walton Street Steam Plant.
20200408. The fairly brutalist 1973 Parkside Student Residence (formerly the Best Western Primrose Hotel) at Jarvis and Carlton.
20200329. 350 Bloor Street East is a decent little 1970 brutalist building by Toronto’s Parkin Partnership Architects.
20200322. The Sheraton Centre Toronto has some nice lines. John B. Parkin Associates with design consultant Seppo Valjus, 1972.
20200306. The John M. Kelly library is a relatively ornate brutalist building.
20200225. Looking up at a corner of the brutalist ziggurat at 222 Jarvis and home to four Ontario Government ministries. Minimal Aesthetic 147. Surveillance 1.
20200216. The postmodern 15 Scadding Court with its bulky Brutalist massing.
20200210. Living in Brutalism at Moss Park’s 1974 Centrepoint East high-rise complex.
20200202. Toronto City Council has endorsed replacing the brutalist St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts with a new state-of-the-art cultural and civic hub.
20200122. Thales Canada (formerly IBM) at 105 Moatfield Drive is a great example of a Brutalist office tower (Crang & Boake, 1982).
