20230912. #Moriyama30 #10 – Jack Miner Senior Public School (1970) – modernist with very early #postmodern elements.In memory of Raymond Moriyama, here’s 30 Toronto area works by Moriyama in 30 days.
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20230709. What the heck was this architect thinking? That strange postmodern office architecture at the Metro East Corporate Centre (1986) II.
20230708. That strange postmodern office architecture at the Metro East Corporate Centre (1986).
20220621. The Beaches VIII: In 1997, the Toronto United Mennonite Church built this postmodern oddity after demolishing their 1961 church. I wonder what that looked like.
20230605. Positively postmodern. Toronto Public Library’s Lillian H. Smith Branch.
20230520. Postmodern elevator lobby. North York Civic Centre.
20230117. Jarvis and Wellesley features two buildings with brutalist elements – one modern (1971) one postmodern (1992).
20230108. A postmodern box grappling with assorted bits of infrastructure – poles, power lines, traffic/signal/street/night lights, signal box, walk button pole, conduits, bike post/rack, bollards, guy-wires, street signs and a pair of FDCs.
20220105. Shall we just call this Chinatown storefront a postmodern facade?
20221021. The uniquely clad postmodern St. Dunstan’s Roman Catholic Church (1981).
20220813. Evangel Temple Toronto has a postmodern crucifix (1983).
20220807. The Hellenic Meeting & Reception Centre features squares of brick and mirrored glass.
20220720. The triangles of Seicho-No_Ie (say-choh no ee-yay) Toronto, where they worship a nondenominational God based on the divine inspirations of one man in 1930 Japan.
20220705. The beauty of rounded brick and narrow fenestration in the International Style. Carling Square, Little Italy or The Glebe or Centretown West, Ottawa, 1974.
20220520. The Grand Harbour condominium tower complex is a decent postmodern highrise. Oh no, is postmodern architecture growing on me?
20220518. The Elmbank Community Centre looks like a big postmodern robot head.
20220516. An aerial and symmetric view of the postmodern city administration building complex Metro Hall.
20220407. York Centre’s pellucid postmodern passageway to the PATH.
20220406. The residential strip mall make sense. Rexdale Mews features an elevated townhouse complex with private entrances.
20220322. Although overcast here, the Toronto West Seventh Day Adventist Church casts a shadow shaped like a mountain with regular peaks.
20220307. This postmodern fire station references elements of classical residential architecture including a gable, tower and portico. The brick colours match nearby buildings. Interestingly, the facades opposite seem postmodern too.
20220214. Looking up at Princess Margaret Hospital.
20220211. The gaudy, postmodern and slightly medieval Twentieth Street Junior School.
20220209. The indented townhouses at 1 Lynwood Avenue.
20220131. A paramedic’s postmodern post. Toronto Paramedic Services Station 47.
