Tag Archives: modernist
20170916. The modern residential high-rises of Oak Street in Regent Park.
20170913. The east facade of the Toronto Fire and EMS Training Centre.
20170909. The Concord’s concrete canopy on Cosburn is a fine example of Flinstone Modernism.
20170823. The Executive Offices facade of the Queen Elizabeth Building with its folded-plate concrete roof.
High-rise living at Charles and Balmuto.
20170813. The blank facade of Uno Prii’s 1972 Spadina Towers in the park.
20170812. Pittsburgh’s Sixth and Penn parking garage is a modernist gem designed by architect Ryan Avedissian who was demoted due to his obsession with abstraction.
20170810. Taking a close up look at the 1973 modern Munich RE Centre.
20170717. The mid-century expressionist St. Peter’s Estonian Lutheran Church. Note the very unusual angled walls with the apex at the middle of the facade, consisting of english garden bond split-brickwork with heading courses inserted every 6th course and alternating courses of recessed and protruding brick.
20170707. The quintessentially modern entrance at the Queen Elizabeth building.
20170619. The main entrance section to Davisville Public School features a fun flaring concave angular roof and a chimney to match.
20170615. A look back at the 2015 demolition of a modernist Peter Dickinson Regent Park tower in the park.
20170503. Balconies in Briar Hill.
20170424. Walls of unfilled roman classic travertine frame the TD Bank Tower Escalator to Concourse.
20170417. Metro modernism against a brutalist backdrop.
20170414. A wide-angle view of the modernist 1961 Gerald Larkin Building south facade. Architect: Somerville, McMurrich & Oxley.
20170409. The modernist Evangeline Residence is the second largest women’s shelter in Toronto.
20170405. A model modernist triplet in Toronto’s Briar Hill.
20170403. A interesting angle on a largely modernist triangular block.
20170326. The 1965 Bell Telephone building podium and aluminum-clad tower at 76 Adelaide Street West.
20170322. Etobicoke’s Viceroy Building is a tiny, old modernist gem; sitting on slender columns, its bulk seems to defy gravity.
20170321. A latticework of balconies and concrete forms the facade of the modernist Tower Hill tower.
20170316. The full narrower west elevation of the modernist 1958 limestone-clad former Shell Oil building at 505 University Avenue including the 7 additional floors added 8 years later.
20170222. Sunset-drenched slab block Modernism at Village Green by Architect John H. Daniels (2/2)
