20210825. Modern August #25. An office building with a zig zag canopy is an unusual sight. Sadly, the Wilson and Bathurst Medical Centre may be redeveloped.
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20210823. Modern August #23. The 1973 Islington St. Andrews Toronto Community Housing high-rise development has a entirely unique architecture.
20210822. Modern August (#22) would not be complete without including the semi-circular Riverdale Hospital (1963), demolished in 2013 to make way for the Bridgepoint Hospital.
20210820. Modern August #20. This mid-century modern transformer home (shell house with equipment that steps down voltage for home use) has fine detailing in both front and rear.
20210819. Modern August #19. The 44 Wellesworth neighbourhood plaza (1960) with the 6-12 Variety Store, probably two of the most functionally named places around.
20210818. Modern August #18. The handsome Dominion of Canada General Insurance Company building at 165 University Avenue opened on September 11, 1962.
20210817. Modern August #17. A doomed mid-20th Century mall.
20210814. Modern August #14. The Trillium Apartments with its funky concrete port cochere and fountain.
20210811. Modern August #11. The tight zigzag roofiline of the Plast Huculak Centre, a Ukrainian Youth Organization.
20210810. Modern August #10. The curved mid-century modern strip mall at Cedar Heights Plaza.
20210809. Modern August #9. St. Ansgar Lutheran Church is yet another fine modernist edifice.
20210808. Modern August #8. The Evangeline Residence is the second largest women’s shelter in Toronto (from 2017 – the facade is a little less colourful now).
20210807. Modern August #7. The chapel’s impressive facade of brick, stone and copper at St. John Henry Newman Catholic High School may soon be no more than a facade as the school is replaced.
20210806. Modern August #6. Toronto’s modern Celestica (formerly IBM) Offices (1965) shall soon sprout buildings as high as 130 metres as the Crosstown comes to Don Mills and Eglinton.
20210805. Modern August #5. The walk-up apartment building at 71 Guildwood Parkway features overlapping entrance canopies or port cocheres.
20210804. Modern August #4. The distinctive concave facade of the Ontario Court of Justice Criminal Youth and Family Courts building. Peter Dickinson, 1957.
20210803. Modern August #3. Uno Prii’s 1968 Gallery Towers seems to be getting a facelift. 50 Stephanie Street, Toronto.
20210802. Modern August #2. Forest Grove United Church (North York, 1959).
20210801. Welcome to Modern August! #1. The hexadecagon known as Donwood Park Public School (1958).
20210705. Bridges (and underpasses and overpasses) of July 05. John B. Parkin’s 1966 modern enclosed open spandrel concrete arch bridge brings the subway over the Riverdale Ravine.
20210512. Impressive tile and brick work at Stilecroft Public School (1962).
20210511. West Hill Collegiate Institute has some fine lines.
