Tag Archives: concrete
20161007. Sneaking a peek at the UP Express train through the concrete that supports its elevated track.
20161002. BMO Field’s west entrance is all that remains of the modernist Canada Sports Hall of Fame (1961-2005).
20160929. The massive concrete pads supporting the columns (or bents) of the Gardiner Expressway sit unearthed at the site of the future WestBlock / LakeShore / LakeFront development (where the art deco Loblaw Groceterias building will be re-built).
20160924. A boy puts a railway underpass on Eglinton Avenue into scale.
20160918. A different perspective on the Freedom Arches at the Nathan Phillips Square reflecting pool.
20160902. Sheraton Centre’s brutalist triangular marquee mushroom.
20160824. Make a brutalist building brutal with a skirt of contemporary cladding.
20160809. The modernist Bathville Towers (1966) of North York – reminiscent of a castle’s curtain wall and its keep.
20160726. 1972 rough-hewn concrete modernism. 240 Duncan Mill Rd, Toronto.
In 2009, a concrete slab, the building’s brise-soleil or sun baffle, fell of the building with 100 people inside.
20160724. The silos of St. Marys Cement at dusk.
Bowmanville, Ontario.
20160703. John B. Parkin’s forever contemporary Ortho Pharmaceutical Building (1955).
20160603. The brutalist block massing of the Toronto Catholic District School Board Head Office in North York.
20160516. A warehouse demolition reveals an appealing steel frame in Toronto’s Riverside neighbourhood.
Demolition of this former concrete warehouse makes way for the large Riverside Square development by Streetcar Developments.
20160508. Octogon X. Minimal Aesthetic 89.
20160417. Toronto’s finest parkade is plain brutalist concrete.
20160414. The repeating poured concrete menorah motifs of the 1959 Beth David B’nai Israel Beth Am Synagogue.
20160412. Under Pittsburgh’s Interstate 579, a younger and cleaner elevated expressway than Toronto’s Gardiner.
20160411. A man puts a highway overpass into scale (showing just how much space fast moving vehicles need).
20160324. Columns in plastic wrap and rows of lights march forward. Inside a warehouse demolition II.
20160320. Inside a warehouse demolition.
20160314. The mid-century expressionist canopy of Uno Prii’s Americana apartment building in North Toronto (1963).
20160227. Modernist Box Office. Toronto’s 1957 Queen Elizabeth Building.
20160225. Toronto’s 1972 brutalist Grand Hotel may be redeveloped into a 45 storey tower.
ERA Architects conducted the heritage impact statement. In short the building is not heritage-listed, not in a Heritage Conservation District and its height is not out of character with coming development. Amexon Development and CORE Architects Inc are behind the proposal.
20160224. From Dow Corning to Church of the Resurrection, another great Macy Dubois modernist building (1965).
