Tag Archives: concrete
20181124. Calgary’s 1968 brutalist Bow Valley College West Campus and former headquarters of the Calgary Catholic Board of Education.
20181001. Head down to the Manulife Centre to see how to mess up a Brutalist masterpiece. The images below show the building before and during the so-called revitalization.
20180925. The perpendicular lines of HVAC enclosures and concrete at the Ontario Power Generation corporate head office.
20180914. This is not a safe parking garage to leave your car in.
20180912. It’s a beautiful day under the Keele Station subway bridge.
20180910. It’s unusual to see people rappelling down the Harbour Castle Westin.
20180905. Toronto’s Westin Harbour Castle Hotel.
20180820. The colossal apartment towers of Crescent Town (1971) rise above the private podium level connecting each high-rise.
20180816. Uno Prii’s geometrical yet sculptural 50 Stephanie Street apartment tower.
20180813. Brutalist Ecolo.
20180808. Concrete canyon on the Canada Life Campus.
20180720. Mid-century modern concrete ventilation.
20180704. Under the six-span Mount Pleasant Rd Bridge in Blythwood Ravine Park.
20180611. Taking a break at a Toronto Hydro electric substation with a pretty cool precast concrete wall.
20180610. A blank facade at the modernist University of Toronto Chestnut Residence and former Colony Hotel.
20180601. The windowless west precast corduroy concrete facade of the Sheraton Centre tower.
20180528. Under where Hwy 427 splits into the QEW and the Gardiner Expressway.
20180520. The Rosedale Valley Bridge arch bridge rises from the ground.
20180518. The oblong spirals of a concrete stairwell at the University of Toronto Scarborough Andrews Building.
20180514. The top of the Rosedale Valley Bridge, an open spandrel concrete arch bridge, that brings the TTC across the Rosedale Ravine (John B. Parkin Associates, 1966).
20180414. Brimley Forest’s Forest Manor I and II are well-crafted concrete aparthigh-rises.
20180410. A 48-year aged and fire-damaged concrete facade at Stephen Leacock Collegiate Institute. Can such surfaces be restored?
20180324. The massive hulking brutalist entrance to the modernist Cedarbrae Collegiate Institute.
20180320. Classic Brutalism at Tecumseh Senior Public School by Fairfield and DuBois (1967).
