Tag Archives: modernist
20210814. Modern August #14. The Trillium Apartments with its funky concrete port cochere and fountain.
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).
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.
20210518. The space age porte cochere welcomes residents to 675 Martin Grove Road.
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.
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.
20210423. The modern round access structure sitting atop the Richview Water Reservoir. With a rehabilitation coming up will this building be spared?
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.
