Tag Archives: modernist
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.
20210315. The simple, elegant and tastefully renovated McCowan Chapel.
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.
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 .
