20220517. The Quad Student Residence at York University. #toronto #torontoarchitecture #architecture
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20220324. The imposing monolithic St. Roch’s Church.
20220317. Lawrence Square has been rebranded the Lawrence Allen Centre complete with a recladding of its postmodern shell.
20220311. A Ledbury Park modern mid-rise office building awaits demolition. Interesting features include curved brise soleil at the top and a semi-elliptical walkway.
20220302. Founders Residence courtyard entrance, York University. John B. Parkin Associates, 1965.
20220220. 50 Green Belt Drive, the site of a 2008 double murder-suicide and arson is to be demolished for redevelopment. This building was included in ERA’s 2010 inventory of North York’s modernist architecture.
20220126. At these modern Jane and Finch townhomes, projecting volumes and fenestration orientations alternate.
20220116. The days are numbered for this modern, handsome, uniquely cladded former Universal Studios Canada building at Victoria Park and Sheppard
20220114. The Bayview Towers complex includes 4 buildings with 70 Ruddington Dr (centre) built 20 years later than the other 3. Differences include corner balconies, the roofline and fenestration.
20211218. A rear view on the fifth of the amazing emergency exits on TTC’s Line 1 extension to Vaughan.
20211216. A third one of the amazing emergency exits on TTC’s Line 1 extension to Vaughan.
20211214. One of the amazing emergency exits on TTC’s Line 1 extension to Vaughan.
20211210. The modern townhouse (in Don Mills) complete with tile work, brick wall patterns and two shades of brick.
20211124. The Connections Mural covers a 760-foot grey retaining wall on Don Mills Road (S of Sheppard Ave) with 500 shades of colour and applied fabric patterns from different cultures.
20211119. The beauty of coarse aggregate concrete #2.
20211118. The beauty of coarse aggregate concrete.
20211027. The Herbert H. Carnegie Centennial Centre (Hockey rink). Architect Irving D. Boigon, 1967. Does anyone know if this arena has always been cladded in aluminum?
20211016. The blank paneled podium at 4950 Yonge Street (Page + Steele, 1986).
20211015. The paneled brutalism of the Toronto District School Board Head Office (Mathers & Haldenby, 1970).
20210831. Modern August #31. Many of Toronto’s finest mid-century modern buildings face the same risk as this now demolished strip mall in Victoria Village.
20210826. Modern August #26. Seeya Celestica as you make way for the Crosstown Community.
20210825. Modern August #25. An office building with a zig zag canopy is an unusual sight. Sadly, the Wilson and Bathurst Medical Centre may be redeveloped.
20210824. Modern August #24. John B. Parkin’s forever contemporary Ortho Pharmaceutical Building (1955).
20210816. Modern August #16. The triangle is ubiquitous in modernist churches as seen here at the 1966 Immanuel Baptist Church in Hillcrest Village.
20210809. Modern August #9. St. Ansgar Lutheran Church is yet another fine modernist edifice.
