20241110. Night and day (2 photos).
Tag Archives: etobicoke
20240803. Porte cochere contemporaine extraordinaire dans la nuit.
20240621. From fast food to slow decay on Dundas. Can you guess the franchise?
20221102. Rexdale Alliance Church and the curious cross.
20220904. Thistledown Collegiate Institute, 1957.
20220703. The semi-detached trapezoid.
20220611. Muscular Modernist Midrise.
202020604. These days a lot of modern churches need protection from the elements. Ti Agia Maria & St Demiana Church.
20220603. The one-of-a-kind 1959 Church of Saint Demetrius the Great Martyr (Byzantine Ukrainian Catholic).
20220531. There’s a haunted house on the Queensway called Martino Manor.
20220530. The googie ice cream bar (@tomsdairyfreeze, The Queensway, 1969). Googie architecture (AKA expressionist, mid-century modern, space age, populuxe, doo wop) originated in 1930s Los Angeles and features curvilinear geometric shapes and upswept roofs.
20220529. The cute Queensway Baptist Church at 950 Islington Ave.
20220528. The funky port-cochere at 2413 Islington Ave features trapezoidal concrete supports with round openings in them.
20220523. Give me more juice!
20220518. The Elmbank Community Centre looks like a big postmodern robot head.
20220512. The round building at the Robert J. Smith Apartments. Irving Boigon, 1966, Rexdale.
20220414. The Robert J. Smith Apartments. Irving Boigon, 1966, Rexdale.
20220406. The residential strip mall make sense. Rexdale Mews features an elevated townhouse complex with private entrances.
20220405. A little horizontal holds its own against the vertical. Minimal Aesthetic #169.
20220404. The Canadian Tire with the Googie gas bar (Rexdale, 1968, see image 20220308) features novel brick work.
20220403. Sunday is a good day for a church. Here is St. Andrew’s Roman Catholic Church in Rexdale.
20220402. The typical Etobicoke Hydro Substation was available in various colours of brick. These buildings use transformers to step down the voltage of electricity for home use.
20220401. Like a giant Y, the Tedford Gardens apartment building stretches off into the distance.
20220331. Inside a large empty industrial warehouse destined to be demolished to make way for a new and more efficient large industrial warehouse.
20220322. Although overcast here, the Toronto West Seventh Day Adventist Church casts a shadow shaped like a mountain with regular peaks.
