Tag Archives: modern
20170602. One of the finest stairwells in Toronto is at Moriyama’s Modern Noor Cultural Centre, a building that has easily transitioned from a Japanese to an Islamic Cultural Centre.
20170430. The late modernist St. Joan of Arc Church (William Saccoccio, 1967) with its hexagonal nave.
20170426. An aerial view of the anatomy of a demolition (of the single storey modernist Brink’s Express Company of Canada building).
20170424. Walls of unfilled roman classic travertine frame the TD Bank Tower Escalator to Concourse.
20170417. Metro modernism against a brutalist backdrop.
20170414. A wide-angle view of the modernist 1961 Gerald Larkin Building south facade. Architect: Somerville, McMurrich & Oxley.
20170405. A model modernist triplet in Toronto’s Briar Hill.
20170322. Etobicoke’s Viceroy Building is a tiny, old modernist gem; sitting on slender columns, its bulk seems to defy gravity.
20170321. A latticework of balconies and concrete forms the facade of the modernist Tower Hill tower.
20170222. Sunset-drenched slab block Modernism at Village Green by Architect John H. Daniels (2/2)
20170220. Cylindrical Modernism at Village Green by Architect John H. Daniels.
20170207. The vintage modernist Oriole Arms apartments in Toronto’s Deer Park neighbourhood.
20170128. A psychedelic mid-century modernist brick wall at 103 Avenue Road featuring alternating smooth-turquoise-stretcher and buff-yellow-header brick. Minimal Aesthetic 106.
20170112. The Nathan Philips Square colonnade. ( col·on·nade \kä-lə-ˈnād\ – a series of columns set at regular intervals and usually supporting the base of a roof structure).
20161231. It’s been a fun year of photography and I look to forward to another year of imagery. Thanks for looking! Have a great 2017!
20161211. Demolition of the Bnai Fishel Towers parking garage is underway.
20161102. The distinctive concave facade of the Ontario Court of Justice Criminal Youth and Family Courts Building. Peter Dickinson,1957.
20161008. The modernist lines of the impeccably renovated Port Credit Library.
20160906. Imminent demolition of the St. Lawrence Market North Building may unearth 200 years of history.
20160905. Renovations continue below at The Salvation Army Toronto Grace Health Centre.
20160826. Moss Park Modernism.
20160815. Opened 1971 and closed 2011, Ontario Place continues to feel contemporary.
20160814. Functional modernism at Parkdale’s Seabreeze Apartments in Toronto.
20160811. The towering modernist forms of St. James Town at night.
Looking west from Parliament Street. Several buildings are named for Canadian cities – the white building with shapely balconies is the Toronto and in the distance the right tower is the Hamilton.