Tag Archives: concrete
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).
20160205. Monochrome precast 6m hollow concrete sphere.
This decaying globe and sundail will remain once Toronto’s Harbour Square park is redesigned along with the ferry terminal.
20160125. A brutalist box shall give way to Riverside Square.
Demolition of this familiar site off Eastern Avenue in Toronto has already started. The new development will be the largest east of the Don River in ages.
20160114. White lines on the Sheppard subway line.
20160110. The Duke of York / Regent Park Junior Public School, a decrepit but excellent example of institutional modernism is now gone.
20160108. John Parkin Brutalist gem and heritage listed Simpson tower to be destroyed by re-cladding.
What do you think of the redesign? https://s3.amazonaws.com/spacelist-paperclip/datas/000/263/760/original/401_Bay_Street__Toronto__ON.pdf?1440846050
20160101. Scarborough Senior Public School Brutalism II. Canadian Architect Raymond Moriyama, 1969.
20151230. Scarborough Public School Brutalism. Canadian Architect Raymond Moriyama, 1969.
20151228. Derelict Ward’s Island Eastern Gap pier points to Toronto’s skyline.
The first image is how the pier looks today. The second image is how it looked in 1954. What a difference! Black and white photo courtesy of Toronto Public Library Digital Archives.
20151223. Beauty in coarse, grooved, poured-in-place 1971 concrete. Minimal Aesthetic 81.
20151222. Etobicoke’s Toronto District School Board Education Centre is a Brutalist place to be.
20151220. One of Uno Prii’s most expressive Toronto buildings.
20151217. A concrete striated trough to the sky. Minimal Aesthetic 80.
20151130. The art of exuviating an International Style concrete facade.
20151128. A Green GO Bus pulls into Oshawa’s grey concrete bus terminal.
20151124. Brutalism at its best at University of Toronto Scarborough.
20151119. A playful modernist porte-cochère at the Four Thousand apartments in Toronto.
20151110. Neck-craning Brutalism on Toronto’s Canada Life Campus.
20151109. Changing the face of Dundas and University in Toronto.
It is sad to see the facade of this 1968 International Style tower being removed and replaced with temporary walls. The office tower will be reclad in glass and 37 floors of condominiums will be added above.
20151108. Brutalist stairwell enclosure. Veteren residence, Sunnybrook Hospital, Toronto.
