Tag Archives: international style
20220711. The Brooke Claxton Building (Building #9, Tunney’s Pasture federal government campus, 1964) is a classified federal heritage building designed in the “Modern International Style with aspects of Brutalism.”
20220705. The beauty of rounded brick and narrow fenestration in the International Style. Carling Square, Little Italy or The Glebe or Centretown West, Ottawa, 1974.
20220410. The overlapping window frames of Ottawa’s Place Vanier towers (1971).
20211202-Merton 2. Merton Street has an excellent collection of interesting buildings including the unusual half mirrored office building at 130 Merton.
20211019. 1960s vs. 1980s.
20210827. Modern August #27. The 1965 Bell Telephone building podium and tower at 76 Adelaide St W just lost its very thoughtful facade. Note how the brown exchange building in the background has a similar fenestration. Will the new facade be this thoughtful?
20210427. The modern Continental Can Building (1959) designed by prominent Toronto architect Peter Dickinson.
20210405. The international style sandcastle-coloured concrete low-rise.
20210225. Looking through an empty commercial space at Hydro Place among reflections of stone on carpet and Orde Street.
20210219. The Padulo Building North Facade. Sigmund D.F. Reszetnik, 1968.
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.
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.
20200810. Appreciating the Toronto Star building before it is incorporated into the new mega-development at One Yonge by Pinnacle International and Hariri Pontarini Architects.
20200804. Taking a stroll past Scaffolding Tower, also known as Mowat Block, while the Ontario Government’s MacDonald Block Complex undergoes a complete reconstruction.
20200803. Mowat Block could be known as Scaffolding Tower while the Government of Ontario’s MacDonald Block Complex undergoes a complete reconstruction.
20200729. The sun-streaked international style.
20200723. The west facade of Islington Square (1243 Islington Ave). G. Edward Lutman, 1972.
20200413. The clean modern lines and reflecting bright white windows of Sidney Smith Hall (Parkin, 1961) at University of Toronto.
20200331. TD Centre overpass before a black and white sea of steel and glass.
20200330. TD Centre overpass with a Royal Bank Plaza background.
20200323. An impressive array of scaffolding slowly takes over the facade of the Ontario Government’s Mowat Block as they prepare to move, assess and pallet all limestone pavers on the building as part of the Macdonald Block Resconstruction Project.
20190919. 555 Burnhamthorpe Road is a jumble of styles including modernist, brutalist and international style.
20190915. An elevated view of RBC Plaza.
20190910. This block of buildings bordered by University, Edward, Centre and Dundas, features art deco, gothic, modernist and international styles but will be replaced with a glass tower with only the end facades remaining.
