20220627. The shiny Parkdale Medical Tower and its decaying parking garage. Sadly, there is a proposal to tear it down.
Tag Archives: modern
20220626. The Ottawa Church of God in profile.
20220622. Enter the First Unitarian Congregation of Ottawa – built in 1967 for $45,000.
20220619. Vanier Hall, University of Ottawa, 1954.
20220608. Concrete-clad cubicle container complex on Consumers Rd.
20220607. The dodecagon pavilion at Corvette Junior Public School (Jerome Markson, 1954).
20220606. Harbourview Apartments, the curved modern highrise.
20220605. The Woodbine Acres Senior Housing Unit looks very much like a school.
202020604. These days a lot of modern churches need protection from the elements. Ti Agia Maria & St Demiana Church.
20220603. The one-of-a-kind 1959 Church of Saint Demetrius the Great Martyr (Byzantine Ukrainian Catholic).
20220602. Tower Hill East (left, 1966) vs. Tower Hill West (1969) – both fully enclosed in balconies.
20220601. Coming upon an apartment building hexagon. June is Modernist Month featuring images from Toronto and Ottawa.
20220530. The googie ice cream bar (@tomsdairyfreeze, The Queensway, 1969). Googie architecture (AKA expressionist, mid-century modern, space age, populuxe, doo wop) originated in 1930s Los Angeles and features curvilinear geometric shapes and upswept roofs.
20220529. The cute Queensway Baptist Church at 950 Islington Ave.
20220528. The funky port-cochere at 2413 Islington Ave features trapezoidal concrete supports with round openings in them.
20220527. Tower Hill East (1966) is where entire facades are balconies.
20220512. The round building at the Robert J. Smith Apartments. Irving Boigon, 1966, Rexdale.
20220414. The Robert J. Smith Apartments. Irving Boigon, 1966, Rexdale.
20220311. A Ledbury Park modern mid-rise office building awaits demolition. Interesting features include curved brise soleil at the top and a semi-elliptical walkway.
20220304. Modern apartment tower ornament may inlcude a rooftop zig-flat-zag canopy.
20220302. Founders Residence courtyard entrance, York University. John B. Parkin Associates, 1965.
20220228. Brutalist OISE. Kenneth R. Cooper, 1969.
20220221. The modern building at the Dufferin Gate to Exhibition Place.
20220220. 50 Green Belt Drive, the site of a 2008 double murder-suicide and arson is to be demolished for redevelopment. This building was included in ERA’s 2010 inventory of North York’s modernist architecture.
20220219. This bird turd covered structure at Islington Tower serves as a parking garage exit; fire department connection and garage ventilation.
