Tag Archives: toronto
20170806. Inside One Spadina’s front door.
20170805. 2 x QRC West.
A red car enveloped by a multi-hued red brick-walled driveway.
The round stained glass skylight in Casa Loma’s conservatory. E.J. Lennox, 1913, Gothic Revival.
The Michener Institute of Education at the University Health Network – Toronto’s lesser-known brutalism. B+H Architects, 1972.
20170729. Looking up inside a symmetrical square residential tower.
20170726. Tiled supergraphic brutalism in the Toronto District School Board at Lucy McCormick Senior School. Notice the name of the school in large light grey letters across the building.
20170725. Brutalism in the Toronto District School Board. John McCrae Public School. Raymond Moriyama, 1969.
20170723. The brick brutalism of the Bayview Glen Alliance Church rear campus.
For the love of brutalist concrete minimalism! East elevation, Curtis Lecture Halls, York University.
20170718. The Sheppard Centre’s residential component includes this synergistic trio of Brutalist-inspired towers. Perhaps the centre’s expansion and renovation will not detract from this handsome collective.
20170717. The mid-century expressionist St. Peter’s Estonian Lutheran Church. Note the very unusual angled walls with the apex at the middle of the facade, consisting of english garden bond split-brickwork with heading courses inserted every 6th course and alternating courses of recessed and protruding brick.
The York University Curtis Lecture Halls exemplify Brutalism with a form expressing its function.
20170715. The singularly Brutalist Masters Condos of Etobicoke’s Markland Wood.
20170713. The domes of the City of Toronto’s F.J. Horgan Water Treatment Plant.
20170711. The unparalleled simplicity of Mies van der Rohe’s Toronto-Dominion Centre is still evident today on its 50th anniversary.
20170711. Having lunch at the foot of a massive monolithic Mies masterpiece on its 50th anniversary.
20170710. The 1910 S.F. Bowser and Company Factory, producer of oil tanks, has Edwardian Classical features including a flat roof, less ornate corbelled brickwork and piers, and flat-headed windows (39 Mowat Avenue).
20170709. A massive Mammoet self-propelled modular transport (with three 6 axle line modules) supports the new Wilkinson Eyre-designed Eaton Centre pedestrian bridge as it is fastened in place.
20170707. The quintessentially modern entrance at the Queen Elizabeth building.
The long buildings of Mowat Avenue in Liberty Village.
Billboards and industrial built heritage in Liberty Village.
The massive King West Life Condominiums of Liberty Village.
The very impressive open air pavilion at Toronto’s new Trillium Park.
