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20200830. The precast concrete brutalism of Apple Self Storage.
20200829. Postmodern architecture incorporates symbolic references to classical architectural styles and often look whimsical and kitsch like 110 Davenport Road.
20200828. Tree stumps sit in front of stripped facades in Alexandra Park as demolition for Phase 2A commences.
20200827. Enter the Nestlé Tower.
20200826. Bracing the facades of the heritage buildings along King St West (left – 511 King St W, GW Gouinlock, 1893, Richardsonian Romanesque) for the King Toronto mixed use redevelopment.
20200825. Mirror Town circa 2014.
20200824. Contrasting the size of the small row houses on Elm Street with the massive SickKids Research Institute.
20200823. A fine plain brutalist parkade in a North York industrial park.
20200822. The Darwood in Parkdale, a modern mid-rise, features interesting brick work and fenestration.
20200821. Metro modernism against a brutalist backdrop. St. George Station and the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto (2/2).
20200820. Metro modernism against a brutalist backdrop. St. George Station and the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at University of Toronto (1/2).
20200819. A bird’s eye view of the Lee-Chin Crystal (2007) at the Royal Ontario Museum.
20200818. The number of this modern concrete high-rise residential beast getting a face-lift on Spadina Ave is 666.
20200817. 500 Keele (Keele Centre) has changed from a CPR intermodal freight transport building built in 1969 to a business park housing small enterprises.
20200816. The Paneled Brutalism of the Toronto District School Board Education Centre as featured in my new book with Spacing. Get your copy today at https://spacingstore.ca/.
20200815. The door to Enwave’s Pearl Street steam plant is open among reflections from a neighbouring tower.
20200814. The Prince Edward Viaduct or (Bloor Viaduct) spans the Don River valley and the Lower Don River Trail (Edmund Burke, 1918).
20200813. Looking up at Enwave’s Pearl Street steam plant as it catches reflections from a neighbouring office tower.
20200812. The beautiful brutalist Masters Condominiums Building B at 296-300 Mill Road, Markland Wood, Etobicoke, Toronto (Kelton Architects & Planners, 1976).
20200811. On Elm Street, the University of Toronto Faculty of Dentistry reflects the Hospital for Sick Children.
20200810. Appreciating the Toronto Star building before it is incorporated into the new mega-development at One Yonge by Pinnacle International and Hariri Pontarini Architects.
20200809. The handsome curved south block of the Frost Building (Ontario Treasury Building) at Queens Park.
20200808. Applewood Place in Applewood, Mississauga, 26 floors of 1996 condominium.
20200807. A breeze block section of wall helps ventilate a one storey parking Garage at the very well maintained modern mid-rise at 1525 Bloor St in east Mississauga.
