
Tag Archives: modernist
20160414. The repeating poured concrete menorah motifs of the 1959 Beth David B’nai Israel Beth Am Synagogue.

20160406. Sadly, one of the most expressive Modernist buildings in Toronto, Davisville Junior Public School, is at grave risk of being demolished.
Architect Peter Pennington, 1962.
20160327. Looking up Pittsburgh’s 1959-built Wyndham Grand Hotel, an example of the city’s marvelous mid-century modernism.

20160314. The mid-century expressionist canopy of Uno Prii’s Americana apartment building in North Toronto (1963).

20160301. Waiting for the bus under a massive relic of modernism.
Toronto‘s Sutton Place Hotel was built in 1967 by WZMH Architects. After almost 50 years in service the building is being redeveloped as a condominium tower.
20160227. Modernist Box Office. Toronto’s 1957 Queen Elizabeth Building.

20160224. From Dow Corning to Church of the Resurrection, another great Macy Dubois modernist building (1965).

20160115. Archetypal octagonal zig-zag modernist architecture in Etobicoke.

20160112. The impressive Canada Square Complex at Yonge and Eglinton (Kenneth Cooper 1963, 1972).

20160110. The Duke of York / Regent Park Junior Public School, a decrepit but excellent example of institutional modernism is now gone.

20160108. John Parkin Brutalist gem and heritage listed Simpson tower to be destroyed by re-cladding.
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20151227. The modernist Bellamy Towers of Scarborough Village.

20151226. The windows of people’s lives….in a modernist high-rise.

20151119. A playful modernist porte-cochère at the Four Thousand apartments in Toronto.

20151114. The anodized aluminum and mirrored modernism of Toronto’s 1961 Sun Life Building.

20151029. A archetypal Modernist lighted canopy surrounds Toronto’s Sony Centre for the Performing Arts.

20151021. Menkes’ The Eglinton condominiums will replace this 1970 mid-rise modernist skeleton.

20150724. The inviting entrance to Toronto’s TD Centre West Tower, a Mies masterpiece.

20150707. The wonderful concrete modernism of Toronto’s Wilson Station bus terminal.

20150623. The ultra Modernist lights at the NYPA Niagara Power Vista centre. Niagara Falls NY.

20150415. A west view of Toronto’s concrete yet seemingly current Manulife Centre.

20150406. 90 Warren Rd in Toronto is a 1968 European International Style departure from Uno Prii’s sculptural Modernist buildings.

20150404. Mixed-use modernism on Main Street in Milton (Ontario).

20150328. North York’s late modernist Joseph Shepard Federal Building and its cuboid massing. Toronto, Macy DuBois Architect, 1977.
