Tag Archives: north york
20210327. The ornate west facade of a modern walk-up apartment at 2641 Keele Street.
20210110. The Emerald Park Condos rise over a North York hood like giant trees.
20210108. The mid-century expressionist Amesbury Park Public Library before its 2017 renovations. Freedman, Petroff, Jeruzalski Architects, 1967, Brookhaven-Amesbury.
20201214. St Philip Neri Catholic Church (1959) with its four oddly placed barrel shapes out front with stucco covered brick. Might they be confessionals?
20201115. The incredible Scott Library at York University.
20201111. Thales Canada (formerly IBM) and its concrete office complex (Crang & Boake, 1982).
20201006. An interesting feature of Edgeley in the Park (Irving Grossman, 1971, Jane and Finch) is that the south-facing wing (left) has its facades reversed when compared to the rest of the building (see previously posted photos – 4/4).
20201005. Edgeley in the Park, a 1971 brutalist complex in Jane and Finch by Irving Grossman, is more than a quarter kilometre long. (3/4).
20201004. Edgeley in the Park, Brutalism in Jane and Finch by Toronto architect Irving Grossman (2/4).
20201003. The clean lines of the Elmpark Manor Apartments west facade in Jane and Finch. See the front facade three images before this one.
20201002. Dirty beautiful brutalism in Jane and Finch (1/4).
20201001. Revitalizing the 1972 high-rise at Edgeley Village Driftwood, Toronto Community Housing at 415 Driftwood Ave in Jane and Finch.
20200930. The clean lines of the Elmpark Manor Apartments in Jane and Finch.
20200929. This section of the previously aluminum-sided-now-stripped Firgrove-Grassways affordable housing community awaits Phase One of its rebuild and renewal.
20200928. From left to right, The Carlton, The Princeton and The McMaster, 3 of 4 buildings by John H. Daniels in Jane and Finch, North York.
20200916. The main gable wall at St. Jude’s Roman Catholic church features two planes intersecting with interlocking white brick.
20200911. Three three-winged modern apartment towers at Black Creek and Tretheway in Brookhaven, North York.
20200827. Enter the Nestlé Tower.
20200823. A fine plain brutalist parkade in a North York industrial park.
20200816. The Paneled Brutalism of the Toronto District School Board Education Centre as featured in my new book with Spacing. Get your copy today at https://spacingstore.ca/.
20200630. Under Highway 401 at Leslie Street.
20200629. The abandoned driving test centre in Downsview just south of Sheppard West station.
20200627. This old school pedestrian crossing at Oriole GO station will be removed for the realignment of the Highway 401 off-ramp to Leslie Street.
20200625. This CN Railway box girder bridge was featured in The Toronto Star’s The Fixer column nine years ago for looking so ugly. I like it.
