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.
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20160809. The modernist Bathville Towers (1966) of North York – reminiscent of a castle’s curtain wall and its keep.
20160807. Looking up at the Winnipeg (1968) of St. James Town where the buildings are named after Canadian cities.
20160711. The 1960, recently restored, modernist Hamilton City Hall looks like it was built yesterday.
20160423. A long view on an unmistakably modern Toronto apartment building.
20160408. A pyramidal view of Pittsburgh’s United Steelworkers Building. Curtis & Davis, 1963.
The exterior diamond lattice of steel provides form and function. With such a load-bearing exoskeleton and a solid central core, no interior columns are needed providing large open interior spaces.
20160330. Brick Brutalist Baptist Building.
Northminster Baptist Church, Jane-Finch neighbourhood, North York, Toronto.
20160327. Looking up Pittsburgh’s 1959-built Wyndham Grand Hotel, an example of the city’s marvelous mid-century modernism.
20151226. The windows of people’s lives….in a modernist high-rise.
20151114. The anodized aluminum and mirrored modernism of Toronto’s 1961 Sun Life Building.
20151025. A posterior view of Toronto City Hall.
20150913. On its 50th Anniversary, Toronto City Hall is still the city’s most iconic building.
