Tag Archives: Toronto; architecture
20210817. Modern August #17. A doomed mid-20th Century mall.
20210814. Modern August #14. The Trillium Apartments with its funky concrete port cochere and fountain.
20210813. Modern August #13. Castle Frank Station
20210812. Modern August #12. The spectacular mid-century modern Humber Valley United Church (1953).
20210811. Modern August #11. The tight zigzag roofiline of the Plast Huculak Centre, a Ukrainian Youth Organization.
20210810. Modern August #10. The curved mid-century modern strip mall at Cedar Heights Plaza.
20210809. Modern August #9. St. Ansgar Lutheran Church is yet another fine modernist edifice.
20210808. Modern August #8. The Evangeline Residence is the second largest women’s shelter in Toronto (from 2017 – the facade is a little less colourful now).
20210807. Modern August #7. The chapel’s impressive facade of brick, stone and copper at St. John Henry Newman Catholic High School may soon be no more than a facade as the school is replaced.
20210806. Modern August #6. Toronto’s modern Celestica (formerly IBM) Offices (1965) shall soon sprout buildings as high as 130 metres as the Crosstown comes to Don Mills and Eglinton.
20210803. Modern August #3. Uno Prii’s 1968 Gallery Towers seems to be getting a facelift. 50 Stephanie Street, Toronto.
20210802. Modern August #2. Forest Grove United Church (North York, 1959).
20210725. Bridges of July #25. A VIA train zooms over the dual CN Railway bridges at Gerrard St and Carlaw Ave.
20210724. Bridges of July #24. Under the O’Connor Drive Bridge over Taylor-Massey Creek.
20210722. Bridges of July #22. The pedestrian bridge over Finch Avenue from Old Cummer GO Station.
20210721. Bridges of July #21. The covered concrete and glass walkway along the Progress Avenue overpass above McCowan Ave.
20210714. Bridges of July #14. Going from the Skywalk to the Delta Toronto Hotel through the Torque pedestrian bridge.
20210706. Bridges of July #06. The Puente De Luz pedestrian bridge under construction in 2011. The ‘Bridge of Light’ takes people from Front Street to CityPlace.
20210705. Bridges (and underpasses and overpasses) of July 05. John B. Parkin’s 1966 modern enclosed open spandrel concrete arch bridge brings the subway over the Riverdale Ravine.
20210628. Brutalist June continues with Brutalism #28. Pillars support the Beverley Halls (former Polish Combatants’ Hall) above a parking garage. Wieslaw Wodkiewicz, 1973.
20210622. Brutalist June continues with Brutalism #22. An impeccable brutalist office tower by Crang & Boake (1982).
20210615. Brutalist June 15. Living in Brutalism at Moss Park’s 1974 Centrepoint East high-rise complex.
20210606. Brutalist June continues! Brutalism-06. Etobicoke’s Toronto District School Board West Education Office is a Brutalist place to be.
20210605. #Brutalism Month continues! #Brutalist-05. The west facade of the brutalist yet forever contemporary Manulife Centre.
