Tag Archives: modern
20200818. The number of this modern concrete high-rise residential beast getting a face-lift on Spadina Ave is 666.
20200817. 500 Keele (Keele Centre) has changed from a CPR intermodal freight transport building built in 1969 to a business park housing small enterprises.
20200809. The handsome curved south block of the Frost Building (Ontario Treasury Building) at Queens Park.
20200807. A breeze block section of wall helps ventilate a one storey parking Garage at the very well maintained modern mid-rise at 1525 Bloor St in east Mississauga.
20200806. Burnhamthorpe, Etobicoke has not changed much in the last 60 years. With a high density of modern mid-rises, one can find funky canopies like this flaring upturned gem.
20200805. The High Point Mall Medical Centre in Mississauga. Not sure whether it’s the high point of medical care but look at the coarse aggregate concrete!
20200729. The sun-streaked international style.
20200728. This sanctuary (presumably) and the rest of the modern 1961 Knox Presbyterian Church Fellowship Centre will most likely be demolished, sold and redeveloped.
20200727. The little zig zag canopy on the big industrial building.
20200723. The west facade of Islington Square (1243 Islington Ave). G. Edward Lutman, 1972.
20200715. Zig Zag Porte Cochere at La Place Marie.
20200713. Although Bloordale United Church has lost its conical spire and original facade, it still retains some of its mid-century charm. If you want to learn more about modern Toronto buildings, check out this just released book: https://bit.ly/3iTZf9k
20200710. 215 Huron Street was designed in a highly rationalized manner with its bands of square windows and openings. Chapman & Hurst, 1959
20200706. 90 Cordova looks just like it would have the day tenants first moved in to their apartments in 1965.
20200704. Bell Brutalism.
20200703. A beautiful breeze block wall surrounds the parking lot behind this modern mid-rise in Kingsview Village (41 Blackfriar Ave).
20200626. University of Toronto’s Stewart Building and Health Sciences building seem to go together nicely.
20200624. The Salvation Army East Toronto Citadel with its unusual addition.
20200612. Rexdale Public Library opened in 1959 and was renovated in 1991.
20200611. Royal York Gardens, 1965.
20200610. The 1967 Richview Branch of the Toronto Public Library with its rough brick brutalism.
20200609. The West Transcept Facade at the 1964 Humbervale United Church.
20200606. Rational modern squares of sky and concrete at 151 Bloor Street West.
20200604. Classic modernism at Wymilwood, Eric Arthur’s 1952 Student Union building and now the Goldring Student Centre.
