Tag Archives: modernism
20210301. The rear of Massey College is almost as interesting as the front with its architectural massing.
20210227. One of Peter Caspari’s 67 year old City Park Co-op buildings, part of the first modern multi-building apartment complex in Toronto.
20210220. The pleasing lines of Balfour Square. Seligman and Dick, 1969.
20210219. The Padulo Building North Facade. Sigmund D.F. Reszetnik, 1968.
20210218. Contrasting the unique Round Hill Condos stepped-out original west facade and aluminum-sided east facade which give it a concave footprint.
20210211. There is a lot of streetcar infrastructure at King and Dufferin. Oh and that’s JW Gouch’s 1913 A.B. Ormsby pressed metal factory showroom in the background.
20210206. With the reconstructed Kipling Station Passenger Pick-up building including a much needed elevator, it no longer has that open feeling of the original building.
20210108. The mid-century expressionist Amesbury Park Public Library before its 2017 renovations. Freedman, Petroff, Jeruzalski Architects, 1967, Brookhaven-Amesbury.
20210101. The Kingsview (1960) on the Kingsway, a brutal modern luxury cellular tower.
20201217. St. Charles Garnier Church front and rear, Hamilton.
20201214. St Philip Neri Catholic Church (1959) with its four oddly placed barrel shapes out front with stucco covered brick. Might they be confessionals?
20201202. St. Charles Garnier Church rear, Hamilton.
20201201. The corroded but certainly once classy King William Court apartments.
20201130. The Colonnade was the first modern mixed use building in the city. Gerald Robinson and Tampold Wells Architects, 1964.
20201029. The model mid-century modern mini-mall.
20201026. The fairly pristine round zig zig roof pavilion at the Scarborough Centre for Alternative Studies .
20201024. The modern splendour of the Shoreline Towers portico.
20201023. The west elevation of the 1964 Guildwood Community Presbyterian Church.
20201017. The other side of this mid-century expressionist former Christian Education Centre (now Ellesmere Montessori School) at West Ellesmere United Church (Craig & Zeidler, 1961). 3/3.
20201016. The mid-century expressionist former Christian Education Centre (now Ellesmere Montessori School) at West Ellesmere United Church (Craig & Zeidler, 1961).
20201015. The mid-century expressionist West Ellesmere United Church with its parabolic arches and natural Napanee quarried stone (Craig & Zeidler, 1958).
20200918. The modern curves of Kipling Station, a great example of mid-century expressionist architecture not built in the mid-century.
20200916. The main gable wall at St. Jude’s Roman Catholic church features two planes intersecting with interlocking white brick.
20200902. Now that’s a serious modern canopy – thin smooth concrete curved into a early space age shape.
