Tag Archives: concrete
20190907. Concrete Stairwell. Minimal Aesthetic 144.
20190829. Sculptural piers effortlessly support the bulky National Life Building above its cantilevered second floor (John B. Parkin, 1974).
20190713. The decommissioned and soon-to-be-demolished McLaughlin Planetarium dome.
20190627. Hanging out in Eglinton West Station.
20190609. Between Evans Ave, the QEW and the Gardiner Expressway.
20190603. Underneath the Allan I. Carswell Observatory at York University.
20190519. 1972 rough-hewn concrete modernism. 240 Duncan Mill Rd, Toronto.
20190501. The Arthur Erickson designed Eglinton West Station features a 70 metre hexagonal concrete waffle roof with numerous skylights supported by 8 large round columns.
20190430. The Arthur Erickson designed Eglinton West Station features a 70 metre hexagonal concrete waffle slab roof that appears to hover over the station.
20190428. The Crescent Town Bridge to Victoria Park Station.
20190424. Looking up at the light in the concrete ceiling. Minimal Aesthetic 141.
20161031. The remarkable Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) Brutalist facade.
20190409. Brutalism at its best at York University’s stunning Scott Library.
20190403. The rounded board-formed concrete interior of the 1969 Brutalist Toronto District School Board West Education Office.
20190306. Another parking garage and a great place for elevated views bites the dust. Yorkville between Bay, Yonge, Yorkville and Cumberland.
20190224. The eminent Nicholas Metivier Gallery, representing impressive photographers such as Edward Burtynsky, Michael Awad and Sebastião Salgado, has moved to a handsome building at 190 Richmond St E.
20190223. The rounded board formed concrete exterior of the 1969 Brutalist Toronto District School Board West Education Office.
20190222. The Valhalla Executive Centre at 300 The East Mall, with its tallest building vacant, awaits a mixed use redevelopment with 1100 units in four condo towers.
20190214. The Ambassador’s angled balconies provide a creative twist to a modernist apartment building.
20190212. 100 Roehampton Ave features modernist elements including a folded concrete roof, folded concrete entrance canopy and matching balconies.
20190211. The Ambassador’s concrete canopies on Roehampton Ave are an example of mushroom modernism.
20190205. Some of Uno Prii’s sculptural Jane Exbury Towers.
20181206. Fluorescent vestibule at night surrounded by incandescent light (Bahen Centre, University of Toronto).
20181129. Pre-cast canadiana concrete close-up under blue sky. Minimal Aesthetic 133.
