20230512. These buildings go so well together in an exellent bit of contextualism between classical and modernist.
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0230126. Seeking shade at the now demolished Robert Street Park pavilion which had a very unique zigzag roofline that can be seen at shorturl.at/bijLQ.
20221008. White circles in glass rectangles. Minimal Aesthetic 76 from 2015.
20220421. A wall of every style of tile.
20220420. The contrasting textures of concrete at Kelly Library.
20220321. Don’t you just love that corduroy concrete in the morning sun?
20220228. Brutalist OISE. Kenneth R. Cooper, 1969.
20220223. The Three Sisters of Sussex. Only the middle sister (aka the low energy retrofit Gemini House) kept her hat. University of Toronto, Second Empire, 1879.
20220222. Bracing a facade of built Heritage (John James Funston grocery store, 1885). Happy day of twos!
20211010. Robarts Common, a much needed expansion to Robarts Library, flanks its west side. What do you think of this addition?
20210726. Bridges of July #26. A retro pedestrian bridge brightens the night. Health Sciences Building, University of Toronto (from 2014).
20210611. Brutalist June continues with Brutalism 11 – The loved or reviled Robarts Library.
20210610. Brutalist June continues with Brutalism-10. John M. Kelly Library is the other brutalist University of Toronto library.
20210303. The Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular & Biomolecular Research at the University of Toronto (architectsAlliance, 2005).
20210301. The rear of Massey College is almost as interesting as the front with its architectural massing.
20201227. Woodworth College Facade.
20200811. On Elm Street, the University of Toronto Faculty of Dentistry reflects the Hospital for Sick Children.
20200718. Rounded walls have square bricks. New College, University of Toronto.
20200710. 215 Huron Street was designed in a highly rationalized manner with its bands of square windows and openings. Chapman & Hurst, 1959
20200626. University of Toronto’s Stewart Building and Health Sciences building seem to go together nicely.
20200604. Classic modernism at Wymilwood, Eric Arthur’s 1952 Student Union building and now the Goldring Student Centre.
20200413. The clean modern lines and reflecting bright white windows of Sidney Smith Hall (Parkin, 1961) at University of Toronto.
20200306. The John M. Kelly library is a relatively ornate brutalist building.
20200121. Goodbye to University of Toronto’s Best (left, 1954) and Banting (right, 1930) Institutes named for the two men that discovered and commercialized insulin in 1922. They will be replaced by the Schwartz Reisman Innovation Centre.
20190929. The south facade of the Brutalist Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE).
