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20180310. A sodium vapour eye under an overcast sky. Minimal Aesthetic 122.
The late modern St. Matthew’s R.C. Church. 706 Old Weston Road, Keelesdale-Eglinton West.
20180307. The 1959 modernist Winona Drive Public School.
The north face of the brutalist A.Y. Jackson Secondary School at sunset.
20180304. The back of the Brick on the CP Rail North Toronto Subdivision.
20180303. The elegantly modernist 55 Ellerslie Ave, one of two excurvate buildings that face each other. Managed by Park Willow Developments and owned by M&R Holdings.
The modernist Cummer Avenue United Church may soon be surrounded by condominium towers. Reference No. 11 287471 NNY 24 OZ and 11 287481 NNY 24 SB.
A wooden construction hoarding walkway in the late afternoon sun.
20180222. The Holy Angels Roman Catholic Church is a modest postmodern structure straddling industrial and residential areas in Islington.
20180220. The mid-century expressionist Holy Eucharist Ukrainian Catholic Church (Rostislav Zuk, 1967).
20180219. Pearl St will soon transform from a street to skyscrapers to a street of skyscrapers.
20180218. An Edwardian Classical Courtyard in Cedarvale.
20180217. Inside the curvy Samsung Experience Store.
A nondescript building somewhere between modern and postmodern awaits demolition to make way for ‘home: Power and Adelaide,’ a block-sized mixed-use development in Corktown.
20180215. The laneway to the toy factory.
Looking up at the CityPlace Puente de Luz bridge.
20180212. Etobicoke’s Viceroy Building is a tiny, old modernist gem; sitting on slender columns, its bulk seems to defy gravity (wide-angle version).
20180211. Kipling Station has new cladding and a new spelling.
20180210. The columns supporting this isogonal-octagon-shaped late-modernist (1981) building at 4141 Yonge St. give it a sense of levity.
20180209. The Carlton and Cambridge stand sentinel on Sentinal Rd., watching over the frontier-style subdivision at York University.
20180208. Working on the incline constructing the Gardiner Expressway’s Simcoe Ramp. Taken July 17, 2017.
20180205. Inspecting the rooftop equipment under low lying cloud cover.
WE ARE LAW and this is interesting architecture.
Strange architectural bedfellows – colossal and contemporary contrasting with modest, modernist and moderne – until the older building sprouts its own office tower.
