20240407. Why bother with west facing windows when you live on Highway 27 (across from the last leg of the Finch LRT).
Tag Archives: Rexdale
20221102. Rexdale Alliance Church and the curious cross.
20220904. Thistledown Collegiate Institute, 1957.
202020604. These days a lot of modern churches need protection from the elements. Ti Agia Maria & St Demiana Church.
20220528. The funky port-cochere at 2413 Islington Ave features trapezoidal concrete supports with round openings in them.
20220523. Give me more juice!
20220518. The Elmbank Community Centre looks like a big postmodern robot head.
20220512. The round building at the Robert J. Smith Apartments. Irving Boigon, 1966, Rexdale.
20220414. The Robert J. Smith Apartments. Irving Boigon, 1966, Rexdale.
20220406. The residential strip mall make sense. Rexdale Mews features an elevated townhouse complex with private entrances.
20220404. The Canadian Tire with the Googie gas bar (Rexdale, 1968, see image 20220308) features novel brick work.
20220403. Sunday is a good day for a church. Here is St. Andrew’s Roman Catholic Church in Rexdale.
20220402. The typical Etobicoke Hydro Substation was available in various colours of brick. These buildings use transformers to step down the voltage of electricity for home use.
20220401. Like a giant Y, the Tedford Gardens apartment building stretches off into the distance.
20220322. Although overcast here, the Toronto West Seventh Day Adventist Church casts a shadow shaped like a mountain with regular peaks.
20220319. The amazing Mount Olive Seventh-day Adventist Church with its high pitch curved roof (rear).
20220318. The amazing Mount Olive Seventh-day Adventist Church with its curved and spiked concave gable (front).
20220316. #Rexdale 4. Mounds of dirt stand where a new mall will replace the demolished Sears warehouse in Rexdale. One of the first Contact Photo exhibits I went to featured photos of mounds not unlike these ones. Guess it stuck with me.
20220310. This mixed-use strip mall features a breeze wall on the upper floor providing privacy to renters.
20220309. Rexdale Mall was built in 1956, enclosed in 1972, demolished in 2004 yet the former Zellars/Towers structure survives as the Fresh Value grocery store and a bunch of small businesses – a true Remnant of Mid-Century Toronto.
20220308. The googie gas bar (Canadian Tire, Rexdale, 1968). Googie architecture can also be called expressionist, mid-century modern, space age, Populuxe and Doo Wop and originates at the defunct Googies Coffee Shop in Hollywood. The style features curvilinear geometric shapes and upswept roofs.
20220218. The Barrett Centre For Technology Innovation, Perkins & Will, 2019.
20220130. The Rexdale Presbyterian Church uses glass block windows and wood with a modest wooden cross in its design.
20220108. The live fire training structure at Fire Station 441.
20211108. Toronto Transmission Tower Tops. Minimal Aesthetic 160.
