Tag Archives: Toronto; architecture
20210513. Bike rack at precast concrete wall. Minimal Aesthetic 154.
20210512. Impressive tile and brick work at Stilecroft Public School (1962).
20210511. West Hill Collegiate Institute has some fine lines.
20210421. A Richview aluminum townhouse facade. #toronto #etobicoke #architecture #torontoarchitecture
20210401. The concrete lines of Warden station.
20210316. The former Polish Combatants Hall (now the Beverley Halls SPK event space) was founded by Polish Army veterns. Wieslaw Wodkiewicz, 1973.
20210315. The simple, elegant and tastefully renovated McCowan Chapel.
20210313. Looking up at the main entrance of the postmodern Rogers corporate campus at Jarvis and Bloor.
20210312. Sheraton Centre Toronto tower in profile.
20210311. The big brutalist boot of Toronto, also known as the Hilton Toronto. Searle, Wilbee and Rowland with Negrin, 1975.
20210310. For a building completed in 1992, Wellesley Jarvis Place has a very brutalist feel to it.
20210223. The construction office at 19 Duncan is mounted directly to the facade support structure.
20210122. Get some tasty tandoori or sell cash for gold at this postmodern scarborough strip mall.
20210121. The Great Wall of Queens Quay provides a sound barrier between Redpath Sugar and the Pier 27 Condos.
20210119. 93 years later, Loblaws is open once again at Bathurst and Lakeshore but as a grocery store not the former Loblaw head office and warehouse.
20210109. Now you can get your liquor under the Gardiner Expressway (Bathurst and Housey St).
20210108. The mid-century expressionist Amesbury Park Public Library before its 2017 renovations. Freedman, Petroff, Jeruzalski Architects, 1967, Brookhaven-Amesbury.
20201107. Concrete eye in the sky.
20200903. High-rise living in Weston along the GO Transit Kitchener Line and the Union Pearson Express.
20200829. Postmodern architecture incorporates symbolic references to classical architectural styles and often look whimsical and kitsch like 110 Davenport Road.
20200323. An impressive array of scaffolding slowly takes over the facade of the Ontario Government’s Mowat Block as they prepare to move, assess and pallet all limestone pavers on the building as part of the Macdonald Block Resconstruction Project.
20200322. The Sheraton Centre Toronto has some nice lines. John B. Parkin Associates with design consultant Seppo Valjus, 1972.
20200315. The rear facade of Toronto’s Seventh Post Office (1853, a national historic site) where Conrad Black was taped removing document boxes from his office.
20200313. Behind the Toronto Hydro-Electric System Windsor Station and its two eras of architecture.
