Tag Archives: toronto
20180505. A frenzy of rectangles at King Station.
Bloor Collegiate Institute (1948), with its “moderne style that was quite adventurous for Toronto and very well-executed” (Alex Bozikovic, Globe And Mail, Apr 5, 2018) faces demolition due to uncreative redevelopment.
20180502. Symmetry at North York’s Pulse Condo towers.
20180501. Where the L Tower and the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts collide.
20180429. The symmetrical south facade of the modern TTC Finch Station bus terminal.
20180426. The Wallace Emerson Community Centre is trippy. Is this deconstructivist architecture?
20180424. Two of three prongs at the massive Cambridge Place apartment tower.
Inverted scissor switch stairwell.
20180418. Strolling under the steel support structure of the Canadian Westinghouse facade.
20180417. Catholic Modernism at Our Lady of Fatima Shrine (1960).
20180416. Laneway housing is not a new phenomenon in Brockton Village.
20180414. Brimley Forest’s Forest Manor I and II are well-crafted concrete aparthigh-rises.
20180414. Beams, bents, bollards and bollards under Kipling.
20180413. A fine modernist entranceway to TTC’s Greenwood power Substation.
20180411. Situated in The Beaches is the 1974 bulky brick Balmy Beach Community School.
20180410. A 48-year aged and fire-damaged concrete facade at Stephen Leacock Collegiate Institute. Can such surfaces be restored?
20180409. A wall of holes that may trigger hallucination. Minimal Aesthetic 125.
20180408. Brilliant modern interior design allowing light to penetrate through glass blocks in the walls of the City Adult Learning Centre covered pedestrian bridge. Architect Peter Pennington, 1963.
20180407. Sitting by the modernist space age canopy at the Ash Grove apartments in North York.
20180406. Flinstonian postmodernism at the Yonge Richmond Centre (151 Yonge St).
20180403. The view through a folded glass canopy at the Cambridge Suites Hotel Toronto.
20180402. The one-of-a-kind modernist Saint Maria Goretti Parish.
20180401. Say goodbye to these white facades on Dufferin north of Queen as they get torn down for a trio of generic mid-rise condos. A sentimental second take.