20231210. The corner of a townhouse complex.
Tag Archives: Scarborough
20231208. Three happy mega-mansard townhouses and a welcoming PHONE Box.
20231204. In the shadow of power transmission.
20231125. Looking up at Lawrence and Kennedy.
20231010. Scarborough Civic Centre. Notice how each level steps back right of the stairwells and steps forward to the left. An atrium reminiscent of Toronto Reference Library and North York Central Library. All 3 by Raymond Moriyama.
20231009. The mayor’s carpet-walled office at the Scarborough Civic Centre and its round window view.
20230923. #Moriyama30 #21 – Scarborough Civic Centre (1973) defies classification with modern, postmodern and expressionist elements.
In memory of Raymond Moriyama, here’s 30 Toronto area works by Mr. Moriyama and Moriyam Teshima Architects in 30 days.
20230919. #Moriyama30 #17
Albert Campbell Collegiate Institute (1976).
In memory of Raymond Moriyama, here’s 30 Toronto area works by Mr. Moriyama and Moriyama Teshima Architects in 30 days.
20230914. #Moriyama30 #12 – L’Amoreaux Collegiate Institute (1973). Many Moriyama projects defy description – pomo round windows and colourful entrances and brick with a rough cinder block finish – restrain the temptation to define and classify. Someone asked me why there are so many Moriyama buildings in Scarborough. That is a good question!In memory of Raymond Moriyama, here’s 30 Toronto area works by Moriyama in 30 days.
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.
20230911. #Moriyama30 #9 – Canada Centre (postmodern, 1984). In memory of Raymond Moriyama, here’s 30 Toronto area works by Moriyama in 30 days.
20230824. Postmodern decay at the Yellow Pages Building.
20230731. Sometimes mid-century modern towers are shaped like giant equilateral triangular prisms.
20230720. Clever. And right beside the Herb House.
20230711. Unusual Morningside Heights architecture.
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).
20230313. The stylish encasement of a highrise in aluminum siding. Minimal Aesthetic 177.
20221021. The uniquely clad postmodern St. Dunstan’s Roman Catholic Church (1981).
20221004. A wooden construction hoarding walkway in the late afternoon sun. From 2018.
20220918. Great massing at the townhouses of Cedarbrook Park Co-operative in Scarborough
20220901. A derelict break at Pizza Manna in the very long Knob Hill strip mall.
20220724. The St. John Henry Newman Catholic High School chapel has an impressive facade of brick, stone and copper.
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.
20220712. Wexford Presbyterian Church wears a crown of 12 triangular dormers.
