Tag Archives: modernism
20210811. Modern August #11. The tight zigzag roofiline of the Plast Huculak Centre, a Ukrainian Youth Organization.
20210810. Modern August #10. The curved mid-century modern strip mall at Cedar Heights Plaza.
20210809. Modern August #9. St. Ansgar Lutheran Church is yet another fine modernist edifice.
20210808. Modern August #8. The Evangeline Residence is the second largest women’s shelter in Toronto (from 2017 – the facade is a little less colourful now).
20210807. Modern August #7. The chapel’s impressive facade of brick, stone and copper at St. John Henry Newman Catholic High School may soon be no more than a facade as the school is replaced.
20210806. Modern August #6. Toronto’s modern Celestica (formerly IBM) Offices (1965) shall soon sprout buildings as high as 130 metres as the Crosstown comes to Don Mills and Eglinton.
20210805. Modern August #5. The walk-up apartment building at 71 Guildwood Parkway features overlapping entrance canopies or port cocheres.
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.
20210504. Graceview Presbyterian Church (1961).
20210501. The modern curves of the Carmine Stefano Community Centre.
20210427. The modern Continental Can Building (1959) designed by prominent Toronto architect Peter Dickinson.
20210417. Victoria Square is a nice modern apartment building beside a public walkway and stairwell leading from Victoria Park Ave to Pitt Ave.
20210413. This unusual apartment building features elements found in closets like hangers and hooks and separate entrances to ground floor units.
20210410. The half century patina of Warden Station.
20210409. Connecting two mid-rises with a modern porte-cochere in Woodbine Gardens.
20210408. With its platform and bus bays above ground, Warden is a huge subway station.
20210330. Willowdale Middle School.
20210329. William Lyon Mackenzie Collegiate Institute west facade.
20210326. St. Charles Borromeo Church is a modern place of worship in a category all its own. 2of 2.
20210325. St. Charles Borromeo Church is a modern place of worship in a category all its own. 1 of 2.
20210323. The True Church of Jesus Christ Fellowship is a modern place.
