Tag Archives: concrete
20201122. A fancy fence casts shadows on a striated concrete wall.
20201121. Bemi’s Brutalist Bibliothèque (Ottawa Public Library main branch).
20201120. A modern apartment high-rise with a very substantial entranceway canopy.
20201119. Brutalism at the Toronto Catholic District School Board (Concrete Architecture #13).
20201117. Rocky Mountain Court (1980), a genre-defying concrete condo tower in downtown Calgary, features rounded shapes like circles and stadiums (rounded rectangles).
20201115. The incredible Scott Library at York University.
20201114. The space between the Chelmsford Apartments high-rise towers.
20201113. The Phi Centre (1980) features a bronze-tinted mirrored tower on a bicoloured precast concrete podium next to a parkade above a bus terminal.
20201112. The Michael Starr Building has a fitting architectural style for the Ontario Ministry of Finance.
20201111. Thales Canada (formerly IBM) and its concrete office complex (Crang & Boake, 1982).
20201109. Brutalism in the Toronto District School Board at Stephen Leacock Collegiate Institute.
20201108. The east facade of The Kingsford, a permanently closed affordable senior community in Peterborough.
20201107. Concrete eye in the sky.
20201105. 77 Grenville St, an Ontario Government building and former Archives of Ontario, was built at the height of Brutalism’s popularity in Canada (E. Janiss, 1972).
20201104. The Queen St entrance to the Sheraton Centre, a complex built to compliment City Hall directly across the street (John B. Parkin Associates, 1972).
20201101. The council chambers at York Civic Centre – a 1974 addition to the original 1950 building.
20201025. The Agincourt Commercial Centre has interesting Brutalist elements.
20201021. The most brutalist part of the former Grand Hotel has been demolished.
20201020. It is rare to see a skyscraper wrapped in plastic. Mowat Block, MacDonald Block Complex, Ontario Government. See the scaffolding below the plastic at https://bit.ly/35prG9l.
20201018. The Pharmacy Avenue overpass crosses the CPR railway tracks and this tiny parking lot.
20201013. The brutalist parallel triangle wedge-shaped parkade exit stairwell.
20201010. The westmost of three identical 22-storey modern condo towers known as Millgate Manor seems to be a big slab of concrete that fills up the sky.
20201009. Geometrically, the Manulife Centre’s new glass skirt seems to work with the brutalist tower but its most interesting feature now lies hidden.
20201006. An interesting feature of Edgeley in the Park (Irving Grossman, 1971, Jane and Finch) is that the south-facing wing (left) has its facades reversed when compared to the rest of the building (see previously posted photos – 4/4).
