20240414. The modern parking spot.
Tag Archives: school
20220904. Thistledown Collegiate Institute, 1957.
20220731. Regina Public School.
20220607. The dodecagon pavilion at Corvette Junior Public School (Jerome Markson, 1954).
20220211. The gaudy, postmodern and slightly medieval Twentieth Street Junior School.
20211014. The new Davisville Junior Public School is a far cry from the original. Frankly speaking, the only positive thing I can say about this new school is that it is new.
20210801. Welcome to Modern August! #1. The hexadecagon known as Donwood Park Public School (1958).
20210531. Concave precast concrete panels adorn Taylor Creek Public School.
20210530. Heavy Shade at Bloordale Middle School.
20210528. 4D or not 4D. That is the question. The unique concrete shade structures appear around the top and south sides of all windows for ‘heavy’ shade. Also interesting is how the entrances respond to the slope of the ground with more steps, a longer handrail and a thicker concrete pad.
20210512. Impressive tile and brick work at Stilecroft Public School (1962).
20210511. West Hill Collegiate Institute has some fine lines.
20210425. Parkfield Junior Public School in Richview, Etobicoke stretches west along Redgrave Drive.
20210330. Willowdale Middle School.
20210329. William Lyon Mackenzie Collegiate Institute west facade.
20200527. Monochrome Honeycomb.
20190730. Brick Brutalism at the Nathan O. and Roey Hurwich Education Centre / The Abba and Esther Danilack Middle School.
20190729. The striking École secondaire catholique Monseigneur-de-Charbonnel and Conseil scolaire catholique MonAvenir in interesting cloud-filtered sun-setting light.
20180731. The longest facade of the modernist Queen Alexandra Middle School (1957) with early brutalist elements.
20180522. Enjoying the cool covered parkade at the City Adult Learning Centre (formerly Parkview Secondary School). Peter Pennington, 1964.
20180512. Martingrove Collegiate Institute and its interesting courses of coarse brick.
20180508. Backside brutalism at the Central Technical School Arts Centre (C.1962, Architect Macy DuBois).
20180506. The school with stripes and rounded corners. Keele Street Public School, High Park North, Moriyama & Teshima, 1978.
Bloor Collegiate Institute (1948), with its “moderne style that was quite adventurous for Toronto and very well-executed” (Alex Bozikovic, Globe And Mail, Apr 5, 2018) faces demolition due to uncreative redevelopment.
20180412. Diagonal fluorescent lighting on a painted scholastic concrete block wall. Minimal Aesthetic 126.
