Tag Archives: contrast
20200824. Contrasting the size of the small row houses on Elm Street with the massive SickKids Research Institute.
20200417. Above Ground, the art supply store under Alsop’s table top. Sharp Centre for Design, OCAD University, 2004.
20190602. The condos of the Humber Bay Shores tower over south Sunnylea.
Strange architectural bedfellows – colossal and contemporary contrasting with modest, modernist and moderne – until the older building sprouts its own office tower.
Beautiful brick brutalism vs ugly postmodernism.
20171108. The odd juxtaposition of the sleek NXT2 condo tower and faux Victorian Windermere By The Lake townhomes, both by Cresford Developments.
20170628. The contrast between 19th century architecture and contemporary condo tower at 582 Sherbourne. Featured in Toronto Architecture: A City Guide.
20170331. A monochrome match: 501 Adelaide Street W versus the Globe and Mail Centre.
20161214. 488 University; before an impressive concrete facade and now a glass envelope awaiting another 37 storeys.
20161208. The nearly finished SQ Condominiums in #Toronto’s redeveloping Alexandra Park, contrast strongly but fittingly with the turn of the century mid-rise commercial buildings of Spadina Avenue.
20161022. Sun and shadow contrast strongly on LCBO’s big box warehouse, site of a large future Menkes development.
20160826. Moss Park Modernism.
20160818. Geometric Variance. Minimal Aesthetic 97.
20160728. Hemmed in by skyscrapers in downtown Toronto.
20160605. Structures contemporary, temporary and of history in Toronto’s Distillery District.
20160519. Condo towers in Toronto’s Distillery District provide examples of compatibility and contrast in contextual design.
The white and blue towers contrast strikingly with the historic distillery buildings whereas the red towers seem compatible in shape and colour.
20160411. A man puts a highway overpass into scale (showing just how much space fast moving vehicles need).
20160123. Buildings both large and small, short and tall.
20150304. An aerial shot of demolition, redevelopment and contrast in Toronto’s Regent Park.
20150208. New and old contrast vividly in Toronto’s Regent Park during the demolition of its 2nd last modernist tower.
20150120. Shadow versus sunlight at Parkway Place 2 and 3 (1965/66). Thorncliffe Park, Toronto.
