20220912. The breeze block HVAC enclosure.
Tag Archives: Toronto architecture
20220907. Vaughan Road runs diagonally across Toronto’s street grid and close to Eglinton and Dufferin its buildings have unusual footprints making for some interesting apartment building massings.
20220906. St Aidan’s awesome Anglican Church. Burgess, McLean and MacPhadyen, Ottawa, 1965 (2nd of 2 – see 20220820).
20220905. Hopewell Court from behind the wall of the York Beltline Trail. Whenever I see a wall like this, I am reminded of Italian photographer Gabrielle Basilico (1944-2013).
20220904. Thistledown Collegiate Institute, 1957.
20220901. A derelict break at Pizza Manna in the very long Knob Hill strip mall.
20220830. An unusual modern residential mid-rise where the balconies are made of concrete and glazed coloured brick.
20220829. The Janmount Towers (1972) and associated strip mall feature interesting concrete nibs.
20220822. The Star Trek porte-cochere (entrance canopy) at the Castilian Apartments (3311 Bathurst St).
20220804. A lamp on the rear brick wall of Leslieville’s long demolished Woodgreen United Church.
20220803. Looking up I see 123.
20220724. The St. John Henry Newman Catholic High School chapel has an impressive facade of brick, stone and copper.
20220722. A corner of the finely detailed concrete Donald Summerville Olympic Pool at Woodbine Beach.
20220720. The triangles of Seicho-No_Ie (say-choh no ee-yay) Toronto, where they worship a nondenominational God based on the divine inspirations of one man in 1930 Japan.
20220718. The east face of Beth Tikvah Synagogue (conservative, egalitarian, established 1962) features an architectural menorah.
20220714. The Chinese Presbyterian Church at 177 Beverley Street with its furry brick elevator shaft.
20220712. Wexford Presbyterian Church wears a crown of 12 triangular dormers.
20220706. St. George Street is home to the modern mid-rise.
20220704. Iroquios Restaurant (now Carousel Cafe) was built when Centre Island Park was created. Master planning started in 1956.
20220703. The semi-detached trapezoid.
20220625. Selections of abstract glass tower reflections.
20220607. The dodecagon pavilion at Corvette Junior Public School (Jerome Markson, 1954).
20220605. The Woodbine Acres Senior Housing Unit looks very much like a school.
202020604. These days a lot of modern churches need protection from the elements. Ti Agia Maria & St Demiana Church.
20220603. The one-of-a-kind 1959 Church of Saint Demetrius the Great Martyr (Byzantine Ukrainian Catholic).
