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20150327. Markham’s concrete and coloured glass Unionville High School.
20150326. Impressive train shed metalwork revealed by revitilization at Toronto’s Union Station.
20150323. The versatility and expression of concrete exemplified at University of Toronto Scarborough.
20150321. The oblong spirals of a concrete stairwell at the University of Toronto Scarborough Campus Andrews Building.
The Andrews Building containing these stairwells was designed by the Australian architect John Andrews in 1965 who later went on to design the CN Tower.
Note the raw concrete (beton brut) look furnished by the wood forms in which the concrete was poured in place.
20150319. A modernist 55 Yonge is a cliff over the concrete canyon of Colborne St. Architect:a prolific Peter Dickinson, 1958.
20150318. Demolition of the last Dickinson-designed modernist tower in Toronto’s Regent Park is underway.
20150316. Brutalism at The Grand Hotel and former RCMP Toronto Headquarters. 1972.
20150312. The impressive black-clad River City Phase I in Toronto’s West Don lands.
20150308. The unique 1971 modernist Building T pumping station in Toronto’s Pump House Park.
The attributes that make this building unique include the circular plan, the engaged inverted engaged catenary arches on the lower wall and the taller engaged catenary arches on the upper wall with fins that extend beyond the original roofline. Unfortunately, the recently added metal penthouse (or cap on top) obscures these fins from view and diminishes the brilliant original design that you can see at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pumping_station_in_Ashbridges_Bay_Toronto.jpg. This pumping station is officially known as the Mid-Toronto Interceptor Pumping Station but being a part of the Ashbridges Bay Treatment Plant, it goes by the name Building T.
20150307. The space between houses offers a break in the banality in Toronto’s King West Village.
20150306. The space age exit of Toronto’s Fort York Visitor Centre to the Garrison Commons.
20150302. Toronto’s modern, functional, handsome yet understated St. George TTC Subway transformer station (1963).
20150222. The indelible Yonge St face of Toronto’s new Ryerson University Student Learning Centre.
20150220. The impressive main floor atrium inside Toronto’s new Ryerson Student Learning Centre opening Monday.
20150213. Pipes and handrails follow stairwell contours in Toronto’s TTC Pape Subway station.
20150211. Below the metal canopy of the Allen Lambert Galleria at Toronto’s Brookfield Place.
20150209. Down the Delta Toronto monochromatic ramp into a colourful parkade.
20150206. Toronto’s June Callwood Park sits in a canyon with a sheer condo cliff to the west known as Neptune 2.
20150204. Mies van der Rohe’s pavilion at the Toronto Dominion Centre, Toronto II.
20150125. A view of many rooms in the 4th Dickinson modernist high-rise demolition in Toronto’s Regent Park.
20150124. Toronto’s new PATH bridge looms above Lower Simcoe St but is dwarfed beneath the CN Tower.
20150120. Shadow versus sunlight at Parkway Place 2 and 3 (1965/66). Thorncliffe Park, Toronto.
20150116. Vanishing down the pedestrian bridge to Toronto Pearson International Airport’s Terminal 1 Express Park Garage.
20150113. Toronto Pearson Airport’s automated Terminal Link Train zips by as it is pulled by cable between stations.
