Tag Archives: concrete
20170522. Knocking down large steel girders like Dominoes at the Gardiner Expressway York Bay Yonge off-ramp demolition.
20170520. The Gardiner York Bay Yonge off-ramp demolition has reached York St which will be cleared this weekend.
20170515. Two excavators bar passage to the denuded and abruptly ending York Bay Yonge off-ramp. #simcoeramp #toronto #infrastructure #demolition #gardiner
20170512. Living in brutalism at the Centrepoint East apartment complex in Moss Park.
20170507. Then and now pictures of a derelict concrete pier on Ward’s Island illustrate how much Lake Ontario’s water level has increased over the past few days.
20170506. A support bent lies in the dirt at the abrupt end of the York / Bay / Yonge off-ramp.
20170428. Standing under the Scott Library and sky feeling inclined to go right. Minimal Aesthetic 111.
20140422. Precast Concrete Stairwell Wall. U of T Medical Sciences Building, Minimal Aesthetic 110.
20170421. Demolition of the Gardiner Expressway’s York / Bay / Yonge off-ramp has progressed rapidly in four days.
20170418. When completed in 1968, Rochdale College was an experiment in alternate learning.
20170417. Metro modernism against a brutalist backdrop.
20170404. A southbound view of the Brutalist Eglinton West subway station.
20170329. New and old bents (support columns with horizontal caps) stand side by side at a Gardiner Expressway off-ramp.
20170322. Etobicoke’s Viceroy Building is a tiny, old modernist gem; sitting on slender columns, its bulk seems to defy gravity.
20170321. A latticework of balconies and concrete forms the facade of the modernist Tower Hill tower.
20170311. Expert urban explorers descend the steep concrete rubble slope to the Don River valley below the 401.
20170304. Up, underneath the Princes’ Gates celebrating 60 years of Confederation. Chapman & Oxley, Beaux Arts, 1927.
20170222. Sunset-drenched slab block Modernism at Village Green by Architect John H. Daniels (2/2)
20170220. Cylindrical Modernism at Village Green by Architect John H. Daniels.
20170212. The brutalist blockiness of 55 St. Clair West (Esso Place, WZMH Architects, 1981).
20170112. The Nathan Philips Square colonnade. ( col·on·nade \kä-lə-ˈnād\ – a series of columns set at regular intervals and usually supporting the base of a roof structure).
20170102. Krystyna Sadowska’s 1967 sculpture suits the concrete plaza of the brutalist Centrepoint East apartment complex in Moss Park (Ryan & Lee, 1974).
20161231. It’s been a fun year of photography and I look to forward to another year of imagery. Thanks for looking! Have a great 2017!
20161220. Celebrated Canadian architect Uno Prii, known for sculpted concrete buildings in Toronto, dabbled with rectilinear forms in his later years including the 1983 Brutalist Alan Brown Building, a staff residence for The Hospital for Sick Children.
