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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.
20180411. Situated in The Beaches is the 1974 bulky brick Balmy Beach Community School.
20180410. A 48-year aged and fire-damaged concrete facade at Stephen Leacock Collegiate Institute. Can such surfaces be restored?
20180408. Brilliant modern interior design allowing light to penetrate through glass blocks in the walls of the City Adult Learning Centre covered pedestrian bridge. Architect Peter Pennington, 1963.
20170619. The main entrance section to Davisville Public School features a fun flaring concave angular roof and a chimney to match.
20161101. The grand classical entrance to the recently renovated Nelson Mandela Park Public School.
20160606. The Claude Watson School of the Arts honeycomb facade (Kohn Shnier Architects, 2007).
20160406. Sadly, one of the most expressive Modernist buildings in Toronto, Davisville Junior Public School, is at grave risk of being demolished.
Architect Peter Pennington, 1962.