20220115. Form follows function on this apartment building facade. The middle windows not level with the others suggests stairwell.
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20220114. The Bayview Towers complex includes 4 buildings with 70 Ruddington Dr (centre) built 20 years later than the other 3. Differences include corner balconies, the roofline and fenestration.
20220113. The Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal Catholic Church of Alderwood, Etobicoke.
20220112. The unusual glass block windows at the Toronto Cricket Skating and Curling Club (1957).
20220111. Connecting holes in a modern concrete wall.
20220110. The lines of the Munich RE Centre (1973).
20220109. St. Patrick Station have never looked like this before.
20220108. The live fire training structure at Fire Station 441.
20220106. Getting gothic at the gothic tudor Bradgate Arms Retirement Residence.
20220105. Tower vs. townhouse.
20220104. Cool concrete-clad condo (1979).
20211223. Entering the parkade (with a seemingly postmodern take on the art deco style).
20211222. The twisted form of York University’s new School of Continuing Studies has exterior walls that are upright onlyat the centre.
20211221. The greenhouse-inspired structure above the patio outside New Fort Hall at Hotel X has a new skin. The hall features glass floors both in and out with foundations of former barracks of nearby Fort York below.
20211220. Patterned glass reflection at the Sick Kids Research Centre. Minimal Aesthetic #162.
20211218. A rear view on the fifth of the amazing emergency exits on TTC’s Line 1 extension to Vaughan.
20211216. A third one of the amazing emergency exits on TTC’s Line 1 extension to Vaughan.
20211210. The modern townhouse (in Don Mills) complete with tile work, brick wall patterns and two shades of brick.
20211209. Tiffany Place (11 Wincott Dr, 1975) is a handsome late-modern high-rise with segmented facades in brown brick.
20211208. The building with the crown of curved crenellations.
20211205. Merton 4. These buildings on Pailton Crescent are the backs of buildings on Merton Street.
20211204. Merton 3. Merton Street’s stock of unusual buildings includes this bulky modern concrete and brick structure at 250 Merton.
20211202-Merton 2. Merton Street has an excellent collection of interesting buildings including the unusual half mirrored office building at 130 Merton.
20211201-Merton1. Merton Street an excellent collection of interesting buildings including 170 Merton, the painted brick brutalist brokerage.
20211130. The building beside Fire Station 311, a 1911 Queen Anne Revival building by Robert McCallum and National Historic Site, is an example of contextual architecture with its keystones, fenestration and garage opening inspired by the station.
