Tag Archives: modernist
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.
20210214. The modern St. Thomas Syro-Malabar Catholic Forane Church.
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.
20210126. Remembering the Riverdale Hospital in its 50th year and just as demolition was beginning (July 2013). Chapman & Hurst, 1963.
20210108. The mid-century expressionist Amesbury Park Public Library before its 2017 renovations. Freedman, Petroff, Jeruzalski Architects, 1967, Brookhaven-Amesbury.
20210107. A revitalized block of St. James Town features ultra clean modern towers, a new black tower (previously a No Frills) and townhouses but do these elements match?
20200106. Matching modern midrises on Midland ( 915-921 Midland Ave).
20200105. The handsome north facade of the Toronto Court House (Marani, Morris & Allan, 1966).
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.
