Tag Archives: concrete
20200613. Dilapidated basketball throwing courts at the 1966 Presidential Towers.
20200506. Bloor Dundas Square seems to have three entirely different tower sections unappealingly stacked on top of each other – retail, office and residential.
20200501. The patterned concrete of the enwave Walton Street Steam Plant north facade.
20200428. Looking up at the Grange Apartments on McCaul Street yields interesting concrete detailing on a stairwell enclosure.
20200411. Demolition on Elizabeth Street has revealed some fine brutalism at the Enwave Walton Street Steam Plant.
20200329. 350 Bloor Street East is a decent little 1970 brutalist building by Toronto’s Parkin Partnership Architects.
20200322. The Sheraton Centre Toronto has some nice lines. John B. Parkin Associates with design consultant Seppo Valjus, 1972.
20200314. Entering the Green P Parking Garage at 40 York Street.
20200306. The John M. Kelly library is a relatively ornate brutalist building.
20200227. In Etobicoke on Resurrection Road, one can find the divine use of ledgestone at the Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ Catholic Church.
20200210. Living in Brutalism at Moss Park’s 1974 Centrepoint East high-rise complex.
20200122. Thales Canada (formerly IBM) at 105 Moatfield Drive is a great example of a Brutalist office tower (Crang & Boake, 1982).
20200119. Modernist zigzag concrete breeze block walls stylishly hide what is most likely a TTC power substation at Broadview Station.
20200118. Looking up from inside the 1968 Etobicoke Cenotaph at the Etobicoke Civic Centre.
20200109. Stripping away the brutalist elements at 1200 Eglinton Ave E (near Wynford Drive), a classic building by Raymond Moriyama.
20200104. Although opened in 1978, Wilson Station’s bus terminal sports convincing modern mid-century design.
20191226. Modern lines in a Mimico industrial park.
20191212. Bent (engineering): a traverse framework to carry lateral as well as vertical loads such as the demolished Bay off-ramp from the Gardiner Expressway that this one carried. Can we please save at least one?
20191207. Constructing a Storm Water Quality Facility (SWQF) at Lake Shore Blvd and Cherry St to treat urban run-off from new West Don Lands development.
20191205. The 1948 Victory Soya Mills silos sit silently waiting for development to come to Toronto’s East Bayfront.
20191121. The shortest of six bents, a temporary legacy to the bay street off-ramp, is the only one catching the setting sun.
20191030. The angular concrete and brown brick front facade of YWCA Hamilton at 75 MacNab Street South.
20190929. The south facade of the Brutalist Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE).
20190921. Where Mimico Creek goes concrete. Come check it out on tomorrow’s walk: https://facebook.com/events/2091910074437770/
