Tag Archives: modern
A nondescript building somewhere between modern and postmodern awaits demolition to make way for ‘home: Power and Adelaide,’ a block-sized mixed-use development in Corktown.
20180212. Etobicoke’s Viceroy Building is a tiny, old modernist gem; sitting on slender columns, its bulk seems to defy gravity (wide-angle version).
20180119. Miesian Desk in Travertine Wall. Minimal Aesthetic 120.
20171227. Strong lines relate the modernist Burton Tower (McLennan Physical Laboratories) to the contemporary One Spadina (John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design) north facade.
20171207. Abandoned possessions at the almost abandoned Massey Medal winning Don Valley Woods modernist townhouse complex which is slated for demolition to make way for the Ravine condo development by Urban Capital.
20171204. The massive modernist Moss Park apartment complex (1964) from above.
20171201. Modern symmetry at the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church.
Parkwoods United Church (1964), yet another fantastic modernist religious structure.
The epically modern and singular Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church.
20171123. The impressive facade of brick, stone, copper and concrete at the Blessed Cardinal Newman Catholic School church.
20171105. The brown brick brutalist buildings of Swansea’s South Kingsway Square.
20171025. The epically modern Scarborough Church of God with its appropriately shaped array of solar panels.
20171024. The unusual and uncomely modernism / postmodernism of the R Square Restaurant & Bar, your pepper soup joint.
The sun sets behind the Kennedy Station Passenger Pick-up and Drop-off.
20170916. The modern residential high-rises of Oak Street in Regent Park.
20170913. The east facade of the Toronto Fire and EMS Training Centre.
20170823. The Executive Offices facade of the Queen Elizabeth Building with its folded-plate concrete roof.
High-rise living at Charles and Balmuto.
20170813. The blank facade of Uno Prii’s 1972 Spadina Towers in the park.
20170812. Pittsburgh’s Sixth and Penn parking garage is a modernist gem designed by architect Ryan Avedissian who was demoted due to his obsession with abstraction.
20170810. Taking a close up look at the 1973 modern Munich RE Centre.
20170708. Ottawa’s Place Bell Parkade, a striking array of slits and slats.
20170708. A round light in a perforated square frame. Minimal Aesthetic 116. Can you guess which Ontario VIA Rail train station this is in?
20170707. The quintessentially modern entrance at the Queen Elizabeth building.
