Tag Archives: concrete
20161203. Permanent fans watch the accessibility ramp of Rod Robbie Pedestrian Bridge, named after Skydome’s (@RogersCentre) architect.
20161116. Between embankment, off-ramp and refuse, the CN Tower guides the way.
20161021. The consonance of concrete and canopy at the Ontario Science Centre.
20161013. The broad, curving roadway at ground level leaving Toronto Pearson International Airport Terminal 1.
20161011. Hanging out on the breakwater (constructed 1920-1925) at Toronto’s Sunnyside Beach.
20161009. A study in concrete at York University’s Curtis Lecture Halls. Minimal Aesthetic 99.
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).
