20220923. An industrial park office building with interesting precast coarse aggregate concrete panels that interact with matching window blinds.
Tag Archives: mid-rise
20220830. An unusual modern residential mid-rise where the balconies are made of concrete and glazed coloured brick.
20220706. St. George Street is home to the modern mid-rise.
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.
20220627. The shiny Parkdale Medical Tower and its decaying parking garage. Sadly, there is a proposal to tear it down.
20220512. The round building at the Robert J. Smith Apartments. Irving Boigon, 1966, Rexdale.
20220414. The Robert J. Smith Apartments. Irving Boigon, 1966, Rexdale.
20220401. Like a giant Y, the Tedford Gardens apartment building stretches off into the distance.
20220311. A Ledbury Park modern mid-rise office building awaits demolition. Interesting features include curved brise soleil at the top and a semi-elliptical walkway.
20220227. A shiny and angular condo tower stairwell enclosure at Harris Square.
20220226. The unique Chaplin Place condos by Shar-Dee Towers Limited, 1984.
20211126. The funny fenestration at 40 Chicester Place in Scarborough includes a missing window, one taller floor and three different windows.
20210818. Modern August #18. The handsome Dominion of Canada General Insurance Company building at 165 University Avenue opened on September 11, 1962.
20210603. June is #Brutalism Month! #Brutalist-03. The decent little brutalist building at 350 Bloor St E by Toronto’s Parkin Partnership Architects.
20210427. The modern Continental Can Building (1959) designed by prominent Toronto architect Peter Dickinson.
20200106. Matching modern midrises on Midland ( 915-921 Midland Ave).
20201227. Woodworth College Facade.
20201219. The aptly named Outllook Manor at 55 Outlook Ave and Jane St sits at the top of the Black Creek Valley.
20201003. The clean lines of the Elmpark Manor Apartments west facade in Jane and Finch. See the front facade three images before this one.
20200930. The clean lines of the Elmpark Manor Apartments in Jane and Finch.
20200902. Now that’s a serious modern canopy – thin smooth concrete curved into a early space age shape.
20200822. The Darwood in Parkdale, a modern mid-rise, features interesting brick work and fenestration.
20200807. A breeze block section of wall helps ventilate a one storey parking Garage at the very well maintained modern mid-rise at 1525 Bloor St in east Mississauga.
20200806. Burnhamthorpe, Etobicoke has not changed much in the last 60 years. With a high density of modern mid-rises, one can find funky canopies like this flaring upturned gem.
20200802. The utility pole between two mid-century modern mid-rises. Jan Kiepura Building 1 and 2 at 777-787 Jane Street.
