20220602. Tower Hill East (left, 1966) vs. Tower Hill West (1969) – both fully enclosed in balconies.
Tag Archives: Toronto architecture
20220601. Coming upon an apartment building hexagon. June is Modernist Month featuring images from Toronto and Ottawa.
20220530. The googie ice cream bar (@tomsdairyfreeze, The Queensway, 1969). Googie architecture (AKA expressionist, mid-century modern, space age, populuxe, doo wop) originated in 1930s Los Angeles and features curvilinear geometric shapes and upswept roofs.
20220529. The cute Queensway Baptist Church at 950 Islington Ave.
20220528. The funky port-cochere at 2413 Islington Ave features trapezoidal concrete supports with round openings in them.
20220527. Tower Hill East (1966) is where entire facades are balconies.
20220525. The Toronto Hydro-Electric System Windsor Station shadow font.
20220524. Beautiful 1937 Art Deco with Mirrored Glass in Midtown Toronto.
20220522. Artik Promotional Products (314 Adelaide St E) sits in a very long industrial building built in 1919.
20220520. The Grand Harbour condominium tower complex is a decent postmodern highrise. Oh no, is postmodern architecture growing on me?
20220519. What’s next for these three abandoned buildings on Mimico Avenue? From left to right: Union Bank Building (1924), Anthony Joseph Building (1929), John Mackenzie and Son Dairy (1920).
20220518. The Elmbank Community Centre looks like a big postmodern robot head.
20220517. The Quad Student Residence at York University. #toronto #torontoarchitecture #architecture
20220516. An aerial and symmetric view of the postmodern city administration building complex Metro Hall.
20220515. Where once was whatever it was and the Bauhaus Condos will be.
20220514. Mid-century modern mixed-use. An apartment tower sits above a parking garage and bus terminal.
20220512. The round building at the Robert J. Smith Apartments. Irving Boigon, 1966, Rexdale.
20220511. Formerly TEB Interiors, 853 Kingston Road is a cute little art deco building in The Beaches.
20220509. 1140 Yonge Street – mostly destroyed by public broadcasting but soon to be rebuilt thanks to a luxury condo tower?
20220508. On Davenport near Caledonia (Carleton Village), Toronto is a pretty gritty city.
20220507. The new Hill and Dale Residences feature very clear reflections despite having bird-friendly glass.
20220506. The new rail bridge being constructed over Dupont St on the GO Transit Barrie Line is much higher allowing for a park underneath to the south.
20220505. I love the angled walkway and massing of the 10 Walker Avenue upscale townhouse complex (Annau Associates, 1979, Summerhill, Toronto).
20220428. The house with the tower in the gable. 128 Hanson Street.
20220427. Concrete-clad campus entrance at Monsignor Fraser College – Annex Campus.
