Tag Archives: international style
20190829. Sculptural piers effortlessly support the bulky National Life Building above its cantilevered second floor (John B. Parkin, 1974).
20171126. Remembering the 1966 Richmond-Adelaide Centre before its retrofit and recladding that will match the new EY Tower’s light blue-tinted glazing.
20171125. The pleasing geometry of the Sun Life Centre West Tower.
A dirty granite reflection of the pre-eminent TD Centre Bank Tower.
20170810. Taking a close up look at the 1973 modern Munich RE Centre.
20170711. The unparalleled simplicity of Mies van der Rohe’s Toronto-Dominion Centre is still evident today on its 50th anniversary.
20170711. Having lunch at the foot of a massive monolithic Mies masterpiece on its 50th anniversary.
20170702. Ottawa’s 1966 modern precast concrete Burnside Building.
20170424. Walls of unfilled roman classic travertine frame the TD Bank Tower Escalator to Concourse.
20170326. The 1965 Bell Telephone building podium and aluminum-clad tower at 76 Adelaide Street West.
20170316. The full narrower west elevation of the modernist 1958 limestone-clad former Shell Oil building at 505 University Avenue including the 7 additional floors added 8 years later.
20170125. Looking up at the First Canadian Place tower from behind bars.
20161207. Mirrors, lines and geometry at the Sun Life Centre.
20161202. The timeless Sun Life Centre flanks both sides of University Ave at King St in Toronto.
20160903. Mies’ black monoliths of modernism – the TD Centre.
20160828. An aerial view on a Mies van der Rohe masterpiece – the TD Centre.
20160727. A top-down view of Toronto’s Commerce Court West Tower.
Note the green roof of the Toronto Dominion Centre banking pavilion to the right.
20160716. Sneaking a peek at Toronto’s CN Tower through Mies van der Rohe’s TD Centre.
20160715. A bird’s eye view of tiny men painting Toronto’s TD Centre.
20160707. Toronto’s octagonal, stainless-steel clad and still current Weston Centre tower.
Leslie Rebanks, 1975, International Style
20160408. A pyramidal view of Pittsburgh’s United Steelworkers Building. Curtis & Davis, 1963.
The exterior diamond lattice of steel provides form and function. With such a load-bearing exoskeleton and a solid central core, no interior columns are needed providing large open interior spaces.
20160401. Sun shines off the silver steel skin of Pittsburgh’s One Gateway Center (Eggers and Higgins, 1952).
20160318. As the sun sets, Toronto’s Sun Life Tower goes black and gold.
20160112. The impressive Canada Square Complex at Yonge and Eglinton (Kenneth Cooper 1963, 1972).
