20240728. Porte Cochère XI. I have many more porte cochere images but this is the last one in this series. The substantial 311 Dixon Road.
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20240727. Porte Cochère X. Heavy Duty 135 Fenelon Drive.
20240726. Porte Cochère IX. Space Age 65 Forest Manor Road. From the book “Remnants of Mid-Century Toronto” by Spacing and me.
Porte Cochère VIII. 150 Cosburn Ave is an example of Flintstone modernism.
20240724. Porte Cochère VII. Orange 20 Gamble Ave. 3rd building of 3, each with a different canopy.
20240723. Porte Cochère VI. Angular 72 Gamble Ave. 2nd building of 3, each with a different canopy.
20240722. Porte Cochère V. Undulating 100 Gamble Ave.
20240719. Porte Cochère II. 75 Cosburn Ave.
20240502. Public art at Yonge and St. Clair (Phlegm, 2016) on the Padulo building (Sigmund D. F. Reszetnik, 1968). We will lose the mural when this building is widened and 37 storeys are added on top.
20240426. Imperial and Oriole.
20240423. The Duplate Canada Building (right, Allward & Gouinlock, 1957) and the Rolex building (left Allward & Gouinlock, 1951) have an interesting history and will be featured in my upcoming tour “Modern Scenes on St. Clair II” with Heritage Toronto.
20240420. The modernist Moss Park Armoury (Page & Steele Architects, 1966), has lost some of its modernism. Take a look at the roofline in both images (taken 2024 and 2020).
20240414. The modern parking spot.
20231128. How the Ambassador apartment building has changed. Before and After.
20231012. The Favorite.
20230723. Weston 2: A modernist midrise with a lovely patterned facade and an unusual entrance orientation.
20230723. Weston 1: The weird and wonderful Westlaw in Weston (1966),
20230707. Virtual Colonnade II.
20230706. Virtual Colonnade.
20230616. The Beaches IV: Baltic butterfly-roofed modernism in the Beaches by Estonian Viktor Tretjakewitsch, 1952. With a group of other immigrants, they may have been the first in Ontario to propose a co-operative model.
20230615. The Beaches III: Inside the Beach Mall. Formerly the Allen Beach Theatre (Hymes Feldman and Watson, 1919), a 1929 ad read “A Nice Place for Nice Folks to Go.” The theatre lasted 50 years and was renovated into a mall in 1970. The architectural style of the time is still evident today.
20230411. Stripping the Sutton (2016).
20230326. modernist x modernist.
20230122. Remember the adjoining modernist east wing of the Don Jail? Built 1958, Demolished 2014.
20230118. The cute but soon to be replaced Beth Joseph Lubavitch modernist synagogue. Armour Heights, North York.
