20220909. As part of the Signalling and Train Contril improvement program for the Union Station Rail Corridor, this signal tower has been restored and obscured by a new south facing wall.
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20220908. Vanier Community Church = City Church + Capital City Bikers Church. “Our services have a very relaxed feel, powerful ‘rock and roll’ music, and dynamic messages.”
20220907. Vaughan Road runs diagonally across Toronto’s street grid and close to Eglinton and Dufferin its buildings have unusual footprints making for some interesting apartment building massings.
20220906. St Aidan’s awesome Anglican Church. Burgess, McLean and MacPhadyen, Ottawa, 1965 (2nd of 2 – see 20220820).
20220905. Hopewell Court from behind the wall of the York Beltline Trail. Whenever I see a wall like this, I am reminded of Italian photographer Gabrielle Basilico (1944-2013).
20220904. Thistledown Collegiate Institute, 1957.
20220903. Fenced in by Pearson Airport and Hwy 401 is Convair Drive the road to the airport infield.
20220902. Eastview Plaza was a mid-century modern outdoor shopping mall before its recent demolition. My only image taken before appreciating modern architecture.
20220901. A derelict break at Pizza Manna in the very long Knob Hill strip mall.
20220831. Another unique, although modified, porte cochere or entrance canopy at the Century Park tower in Port Credit.
20220830. An unusual modern residential mid-rise where the balconies are made of concrete and glazed coloured brick.
20220829. The Janmount Towers (1972) and associated strip mall feature interesting concrete nibs.
20220828. Queen Elizabeth Tower A in profile – one of the earliest condominium developments downtown (1975-78, Tridel). Do the bulges have bigger units?
20220827. Robarts Library has a buddy – the National Research Council Canada National Science Library. Shore Tilbe Henschek Irwin, 1974, Ottawa.
20220826. The Sir Richard Scott Building uses panels of corduroy concrete giving it that fuzzy tactile look. This building also houses the main branch of the brutalist Ottawa Public Library.
20220824. Might as well make the windowless facade of an office building interesting. Martel Building, 1975, Ottawa.
20220822. The Star Trek porte-cochere (entrance canopy) at the Castilian Apartments (3311 Bathurst St).
20220820. St Aidan’s awesome Anglican Church. Burgess, McLean and MacPhadyen, Ottawa, 1965.
20220814. The stunning Forest Hills Condominium (Paul Ospolak, 1971, North York).
20220813. Evangel Temple Toronto has a postmodern crucifix (1983).
20220812. The City Centre Complex (Ashworth, Robbie, Vaughan & Williams, 1965) was a major intercity truck depot now revived with an influx of new local businesses.
20220811. The CIVIC Googie sign at this former pharmacy (1960) was recently restored. Originally, it was illuminated with rotating letters and the palindrome could be read from any angle.
20220810. Paroisse St-Rémi is a mid-century expressionist church especially from the sky.
20220809. Horizontally-lined balconies against the vertically-lined wall at 30 Cartier St. Perhaps the first building occupied by Cartier Place Suite Hotel who have since expanded into the next building to the west.
20220808. The Merit Condos, built in 2014, really channel that art deco vibe.
