20210829. Modern August #29. Rexdale Public Library opened in 1959 and was renovated in 1991.
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20210827. Modern August #27. The 1965 Bell Telephone building podium and tower at 76 Adelaide St W just lost its very thoughtful facade. Note how the brown exchange building in the background has a similar fenestration. Will the new facade be this thoughtful?
20210826. Modern August #26. Seeya Celestica as you make way for the Crosstown Community.
20210824. Modern August #24. John B. Parkin’s forever contemporary Ortho Pharmaceutical Building (1955).
20210823. Modern August #23. The 1973 Islington St. Andrews Toronto Community Housing high-rise development has a entirely unique architecture.
20210822. Modern August (#22) would not be complete without including the semi-circular Riverdale Hospital (1963), demolished in 2013 to make way for the Bridgepoint Hospital.
20210820. Modern August #20. This mid-century modern transformer home (shell house with equipment that steps down voltage for home use) has fine detailing in both front and rear.
20210819. Modern August #19. The 44 Wellesworth neighbourhood plaza (1960) with the 6-12 Variety Store, probably two of the most functionally named places around.
20210818. Modern August #18. The handsome Dominion of Canada General Insurance Company building at 165 University Avenue opened on September 11, 1962.
20210817. Modern August #17. A doomed mid-20th Century mall.
20210816. Modern August #16. The triangle is ubiquitous in modernist churches as seen here at the 1966 Immanuel Baptist Church in Hillcrest Village.
20210815. Modern August #15. Triangular north elevation of Mimico Presbyterian Church (1958).
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).
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.
20210805. Modern August #5. The walk-up apartment building at 71 Guildwood Parkway features overlapping entrance canopies or port cocheres.
20210804. Modern August #4. The distinctive concave facade of the Ontario Court of Justice Criminal Youth and Family Courts building. Peter Dickinson, 1957.
20210731. Bridges of July #31. The Half Mile Bridge on the derelict Don Branch Railway before the barriers (from 2012).
20210730. The colourful pedestrian bridge linking the North and South buildings of the Metro Toronto Convention Centre (from 2018).
20210727. Bridges of July #27. Putting an underpass in scale #3. Road Bridge 054 (built 1956) – Royal York Road under Dundas Street West.
20210726. Bridges of July #26. A retro pedestrian bridge brightens the night. Health Sciences Building, University of Toronto (from 2014).
20210725. Bridges of July #25. A VIA train zooms over the dual CN Railway bridges at Gerrard St and Carlaw Ave.
