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20181215. And so the demolition of Davisville Public School, one of Toronto’s most impressive modernist schools, has begun.
20180731. The longest facade of the modernist Queen Alexandra Middle School (1957) with early brutalist elements.
20180730. The brick Brutalist Bowmore Road Senior Public School with its Hindi script-inspired windows. Upper Beaches, 1963.
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.
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.
20180327. The pointy part of Lester B. Pearson Collegiate Institute (architect Moriyama & Teshima).
20180326. Masterful modernism at Cedarbrae Collegiate Institute. Scarborough, Toronto, Allward & Gouinlock, 1959.
20180324. The massive hulking brutalist entrance to the modernist Cedarbrae Collegiate Institute.
20180323. Arbor Glen Public School through its own portal. Toronto, Moriyama & Teshima, 1975.
20180322. Tout est possible at the modernist École Élémentaire Pierre-Elliott-Trudeau.
20180321. The striking yet simple design of the Bickford Centre (formerly Bickford Park High School, Toronto Board of Education, 1965).
20180320. Classic Brutalism at Tecumseh Senior Public School by Fairfield and DuBois (1967).
20180318. Brutalist ghost wall.
20180317. Brutalism in the Toronto District School Board – Stephen Leacock Collegiate Institute.
20180316. Electrical paraphernalia and their shadows on a precast concrete school wall. Minimal Aesthetic 123.
20180312. Play basketball circa 1961 at Glen Ames Senior Public School in The Beaches.
20180311. John B. Parkin had a particular interest in designing school buildings in the modernist style including the 1942 Sunnylea Junior School shown here with its 1948 addition.
20180307. The 1959 modernist Winona Drive Public School.
