20230117. Jarvis and Wellesley features two buildings with brutalist elements – one modern (1971) one postmodern (1992).
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20221123. Crowned modernism on Antibes Drive.
20221121. A tower in the Park. Forest Lane Apartments, Westminister, North York, Toronto.
20221118. The Bathville Towers feature a tower and podium both shaped like parallelograms with one turned 35 degrees from the other resulting in interesting angles where the building meets the street.
20221117. The lines of the modernist Bathville Towers (1966) in North York.
20221101. The modernist apartment buildings of Antibes Drive
20221029. 10 Sunny Glenway (1973) is one of five modernist concrete highrises in Flemingdon Park, North York.
20220919. The Treehouse, or Kemper House (Jim Strutt, 1962) resides in the only modernist heritage conservation district in Canada.
20220915. The brutalist porte cochere. 145 Marlee Ave, 1973.
20220831. Another unique, although modified, porte cochere or entrance canopy at the Century Park tower in Port Credit.
20220830. An unusual modern residential mid-rise where the balconies are made of concrete and glazed coloured brick.
20220829. The Janmount Towers (1972) and associated strip mall feature interesting concrete nibs.
20220828. Queen Elizabeth Tower A in profile – one of the earliest condominium developments downtown (1975-78, Tridel). Do the bulges have bigger units?
20220806. The Bathville Towers (1966) of North York.
20220730. Fine concrete lines at the Britannia at 415 Greenview Ave, Napean, Ottawa, 1976.
20220611. Muscular Modernist Midrise.
20220602. Tower Hill East (left, 1966) vs. Tower Hill West (1969) – both fully enclosed in balconies.
20220601. Coming upon an apartment building hexagon. June is Modernist Month featuring images from Toronto and Ottawa.
20220528. The funky port-cochere at 2413 Islington Ave features trapezoidal concrete supports with round openings in them.
20220527. Tower Hill East (1966) is where entire facades are balconies.
20220521. Looking up inside a symmetrical square residential tower.
20220406. The residential strip mall make sense. Rexdale Mews features an elevated townhouse complex with private entrances.
20220401. Like a giant Y, the Tedford Gardens apartment building stretches off into the distance.
20220305. A most unusual parking garage in Forest Hill is fronted by an apartment that must have the strangest floor plan.
20220301. Living in Brutalism.
