
Tag Archives: concrete
20180317. Brutalism in the Toronto District School Board – Stephen Leacock Collegiate Institute.

20180316. Electrical paraphernalia and their shadows on a precast concrete school wall. Minimal Aesthetic 123.

The north face of the brutalist A.Y. Jackson Secondary School at sunset.

20180212. Etobicoke’s Viceroy Building is a tiny, old modernist gem; sitting on slender columns, its bulk seems to defy gravity (wide-angle version).

20180210. The columns supporting this isogonal-octagon-shaped late-modernist (1981) building at 4141 Yonge St. give it a sense of levity.

20180104. Following the seam between bridge spans in the underpass. CN Rail bridge, St. Clair Ave E, Scarborough Junction.

An underground parking exit ramp can be made elegent with the use of patterned precast concrete.

20171210. In Etobicoke on Resurrection Road, one can find the divine use of concrete at the Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ Catholic Church.

20171202. Giving that concrete slab a smooth finish high above the Garden District.

20171027. Descending into the pedestrian tunnel at Scarborough GO Station II.

20171023. Descending into the pedestrian tunnel at the 50-year-old Scarborough GO Station.

The sun sets behind the Kennedy Station Passenger Pick-up and Drop-off.

A trio of hammers break up concrete at Queen St W and McCaul St.

Cordoned off by concrete and no one to watch your back.

20170916. The modern residential high-rises of Oak Street in Regent Park.

20170909. The Concord’s concrete canopy on Cosburn is a fine example of Flinstone Modernism.

20170904. Toronto’s Brutalist Manulife Centre Residential Tower – 51 storeys, 166 m, 793 units.

20170822. West end perspective on the elevated Gardiner Expressway at Exhibition Place.

20170819. The brutalist expressionist facade of circular ramps at Pittsburgh’s Smithfield-Liberty Garage.

Industrial park brutalism at Canada Post’s Toronto South Central Letter Processing Plant.

20170813. The blank facade of Uno Prii’s 1972 Spadina Towers in the park.

University of Ottawa’s Brutalist Morisset Hall was built in 1972 to centralize library system administration.

20170810. Taking a close up look at the 1973 modern Munich RE Centre.

20170808. Taking shelter under Brutalism. University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC) Andrews Building, Science Wing.
