20220414. The Robert J. Smith Apartments. Irving Boigon, 1966, Rexdale.
Tag Archives: modern architecture
20220404. The Canadian Tire with the Googie gas bar (Rexdale, 1968, see image 20220308) features novel brick work.
20220403. Sunday is a good day for a church. Here is St. Andrew’s Roman Catholic Church in Rexdale.
20220402. The typical Etobicoke Hydro Substation was available in various colours of brick. These buildings use transformers to step down the voltage of electricity for home use.
20220401. Like a giant Y, the Tedford Gardens apartment building stretches off into the distance.
20220324. The imposing monolithic St. Roch’s Church.
20220323. C is for curved and cylindrical and concrete. Minimal Aesthetic #168.
20220321. Don’t you just love that corduroy concrete in the morning sun?
20220319. The amazing Mount Olive Seventh-day Adventist Church with its high pitch curved roof (rear).
20220318. The amazing Mount Olive Seventh-day Adventist Church with its curved and spiked concave gable (front).
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.
20220310. This mixed-use strip mall features a breeze wall on the upper floor providing privacy to renters.
20220309. Rexdale Mall was built in 1956, enclosed in 1972, demolished in 2004 yet the former Zellars/Towers structure survives as the Fresh Value grocery store and a bunch of small businesses – a true Remnant of Mid-Century Toronto.
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.
20220304. Modern apartment tower ornament may inlcude a rooftop zig-flat-zag canopy.
20220224. As the pigeon flies … by the modern facade (45 Carlton St., Edward I. Richmond, 1981).
20220221. The modern building at the Dufferin Gate to Exhibition Place.
20220220. 50 Green Belt Drive, the site of a 2008 double murder-suicide and arson is to be demolished for redevelopment. This building was included in ERA’s 2010 inventory of North York’s modernist architecture.
20220219. This bird turd covered structure at Islington Tower serves as a parking garage exit; fire department connection and garage ventilation.
20220213. Now that’s an entrance canopy!
20220210. The bones of modernism on display during the Riverdale Hospital demolition.
20220208. Widdicombe Place (1975) features two condominium towers with clean lines and modern Elements.
20220204. The often overlooked Royal Bank Building (20 King St E) in intricate marble with fine detailing. Marani Morris & Allen, 1964.
20220128. The Winton Place condos are unusual in that they look more institutional than residential.
20220127. The Agnes MacPhail apartment complex features two towers connected by a narrow section in between them.
