Tag Archives: modern
20210814. Modern August #14. The Trillium Apartments with its funky concrete port cochere and fountain.
20210805. Modern August #5. The walk-up apartment building at 71 Guildwood Parkway features overlapping entrance canopies or port cocheres.
20210804. Modern August #4. The distinctive concave facade of the Ontario Court of Justice Criminal Youth and Family Courts building. Peter Dickinson, 1957.
20210803. Modern August #3. Uno Prii’s 1968 Gallery Towers seems to be getting a facelift. 50 Stephanie Street, Toronto.
20210802. Modern August #2. Forest Grove United Church (North York, 1959).
20210801. Welcome to Modern August! #1. The hexadecagon known as Donwood Park Public School (1958).
20210705. Bridges (and underpasses and overpasses) of July 05. John B. Parkin’s 1966 modern enclosed open spandrel concrete arch bridge brings the subway over the Riverdale Ravine.
20210531. Concave precast concrete panels adorn Taylor Creek Public School.
20210530. Heavy Shade at Bloordale Middle School.
20210529. The Tuxedo Court Apartments sport turquoise stripes and large solar panels.
20210528. 4D or not 4D. That is the question. The unique concrete shade structures appear around the top and south sides of all windows for ‘heavy’ shade. Also interesting is how the entrances respond to the slope of the ground with more steps, a longer handrail and a thicker concrete pad.
20210524. Iglesia Ni Cristo – Locale of Scarborough goes beige from blue and changes its style too. Second photo from http://wikimapia.org/…/Iglesia-Ni-Cristo-Local-of-Toronto.
20210523. The three aligned towers of Pharmacy Place or Clairlea Court or 263-283 Pharmacy Ave. I like how this complex rises out of Warden Woods.
20210520. A colourful Apple Self Storage wall makes for a happier trash receptacle.
20210519. A reskinned modern apartment tower at Teesdale Place. Here’s the building before the new shell – https://bit.ly/2Qv9nw2.
20210518. The space age porte cochere welcomes residents to 675 Martin Grove Road.
20210517. The three wings of the Cambridge Place apartments.
20210515. The west facade of the CSI (Church of South India) Church Toronto (first service 1989) and formerly the Church of St. Wilfrid (1958).
20210512. Impressive tile and brick work at Stilecroft Public School (1962).
20210511. West Hill Collegiate Institute has some fine lines.
20210507. Workers renovate an apartment building at 205 Morningside Ave.
20210506. Etobicoke’s unornamented Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1962).
20210504. Graceview Presbyterian Church (1961).
20210503. Bulky Brick Bell Box.
