20220904. Thistledown Collegiate Institute, 1957.
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20220406. The residential strip mall make sense. Rexdale Mews features an elevated townhouse complex with private entrances.
20220404. The Canadian Tire with the Googie gas bar (Rexdale, 1968, see image 20220308) features novel brick work.
20220310. This mixed-use strip mall features a breeze wall on the upper floor providing privacy to renters.
20220308. The googie gas bar (Canadian Tire, Rexdale, 1968). Googie architecture can also be called expressionist, mid-century modern, space age, Populuxe and Doo Wop and originates at the defunct Googies Coffee Shop in Hollywood. The style features curvilinear geometric shapes and upswept roofs.
