Tag Archives: mid-century
20200609. The West Transcept Facade at the 1964 Humbervale United Church.
20200604. Classic modernism at Wymilwood, Eric Arthur’s 1952 Student Union building and now the Goldring Student Centre.
20200602. The very elegant and modern Westway United Church.
20200217. A dying mid-century strip mall at Eglinton and Kennedy.
20191111. Uno Prii’s 1966 mid-century expressionist 35 Walmer apartment tower entrance at night.
20190728. The modernist North York Korean United Church.
20190530. An abandoned mid-century strip mall in Victoria Village awaits demolition to make way for the Vic Towns North Park stacked townhouse development that boasts being 10 minutes away from the future Eglinton Crosstown LRT.
20190319. A six-storey community housing building awaits demolition in Regent Park’s Block 1, for Phase 3 of development.
20180926. The mid-century expressionist Holy Eucharist Ukrainian Catholic Church (Rostislav Zuk, 1967) II.
20180702. The mid-century expressionist triangular St. Peter’s Estonian Lutheran Church.
20180407. Sitting by the modernist space age canopy at the Ash Grove apartments in North York.
20180220. The mid-century expressionist Holy Eucharist Ukrainian Catholic Church (Rostislav Zuk, 1967).
20170717. The mid-century expressionist St. Peter’s Estonian Lutheran Church. Note the very unusual angled walls with the apex at the middle of the facade, consisting of english garden bond split-brickwork with heading courses inserted every 6th course and alternating courses of recessed and protruding brick.
20170707. The quintessentially modern entrance at the Queen Elizabeth building.
20170619. The main entrance section to Davisville Public School features a fun flaring concave angular roof and a chimney to match.
20170414. A wide-angle view of the modernist 1961 Gerald Larkin Building south facade. Architect: Somerville, McMurrich & Oxley.
20170405. A model modernist triplet in Toronto’s Briar Hill.
20170131. TTC’s Kipling Station Bus Platform from the tracks.
20161002. BMO Field’s west entrance is all that remains of the modernist Canada Sports Hall of Fame (1961-2005).
20160815. Opened 1971 and closed 2011, Ontario Place continues to feel contemporary.
20160406. Sadly, one of the most expressive Modernist buildings in Toronto, Davisville Junior Public School, is at grave risk of being demolished.
Architect Peter Pennington, 1962.
20160314. The mid-century expressionist canopy of Uno Prii’s Americana apartment building in North Toronto (1963).
20160227. Modernist Box Office. Toronto’s 1957 Queen Elizabeth Building.
20151117. The Salvation Army’s mid-century expressionist Yorkminster Citadel.
