Tag Archives: Scarborough
20201218. The covered concrete and glass walkway along the Progress Ave ramp over McCowan Ave is still fairly appealing.
20201114. The space between the Chelmsford Apartments high-rise towers.
20201109. Brutalism in the Toronto District School Board at Stephen Leacock Collegiate Institute.
20201106. Looking east along the Gatineau Hydro Corridor through Rouge Nation Urban Park and over the Rouge River.
20201029. The model mid-century modern mini-mall.
20201028. Despite its appearance, Toronto rail bridge 202 (CPR Belleville Subdivision) over Sheppard Ave East in the C D Farquharson hood was found in good condition when last inspected in 2018.
20201026. The fairly pristine round zig zig roof pavilion at the Scarborough Centre for Alternative Studies .
20201025. The Agincourt Commercial Centre has interesting Brutalist elements.
20201023. The west elevation of the 1964 Guildwood Community Presbyterian Church.
20201018. The Pharmacy Avenue overpass crosses the CPR railway tracks and this tiny parking lot.
20201017. The other side of this mid-century expressionist former Christian Education Centre (now Ellesmere Montessori School) at West Ellesmere United Church (Craig & Zeidler, 1961). 3/3.
20201016. The mid-century expressionist former Christian Education Centre (now Ellesmere Montessori School) at West Ellesmere United Church (Craig & Zeidler, 1961).
20201015. The mid-century expressionist West Ellesmere United Church with its parabolic arches and natural Napanee quarried stone (Craig & Zeidler, 1958).
20201014. Looking up an old electricity pylon in the most likely abandoned Warden hydro corridor. North of Hwy 401, the towers have been removed and filled in with linear housing developments.
20201013. The brutalist parallel triangle wedge-shaped parkade exit stairwell.
20200702. The Albert Campbell District Library is undergoing a renovation, ensuring that it will never look the same again.
20200622. High-rise Brutalism at the Chelmsford Apartments in Agincourt.
20200615. The Corporate Plaza the colour of sky.
20200614. Re-skinning an apartment tower.
20200613. Dilapidated basketball throwing courts at the 1966 Presidential Towers.
20200522. Although the Scarborough Rapid Transit opened at Kennedy station in 1985, it has a mid-century modern space age look.
20200515. The uniquely clad postmodern St. Dunstan’s Roman Catholic Church (1981).
20200217. A dying mid-century strip mall at Eglinton and Kennedy.
20200125. A shack and 10 legs of a tank.
