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20200420. Sun but no life at the Sun Life Building.
20200419. The back (but not the altar side) of St. Wilfrid’s Roman Catholic Church seems more like a Brutalist air traffic control tower.
20200418. The funky shadows of this part of Humber Valley United Church.
20200417. Above Ground, the art supply store under Alsop’s table top. Sharp Centre for Design, OCAD University, 2004.
20200416. Under the podium of the Toronto Superior Court of Justice Courthouse (FH Marani, 1966).
20200415. The brutalist SickKids Centre for Community Mental Health (formerly the Hincks Dellcrest Centre) at Jarvis and Wellesley. Shore & Moffat, 1967.
20200414. The only time the Four Seasons Hotel driveway is empty is during a pandemic-induced state of emergency.
20200413. The clean modern lines and reflecting bright white windows of Sidney Smith Hall (Parkin, 1961) at University of Toronto.
20200412. The modernist Moss Park Armoury (Page & Steele Architects, 1966) is home of the Canadian Army’s 7th Toronto Regiment.
20200411. Demolition on Elizabeth Street has revealed some fine brutalism at the Enwave Walton Street Steam Plant.
20200410. Stop the Spread. Yonge-Dundas Square.
20200409. Five high-rise condos surround a small 1983 brick and concrete tower at the once low-rise intersection of Jarvis and Dundas.
20200408. The fairly brutalist 1973 Parkside Student Residence (formerly the Best Western Primrose Hotel) at Jarvis and Carlton.
20200407. Stairs and shiny stainless steel at Commerce Court West. I.M Pei, 1972.
20200406. At 3:40 PM on a Monday, Toronto’s SkyWalk and entrance to UP Express is empty.
20200405. The prominent pillars of Peter Street courtesy of Tableau Condominiums.
20200404. I am still amazed at how empty the streets are these days. Front at John facing east.
20200403. The postmodern portal to the PATH.
20200402. The Shangri-La Hotel and Residences between the towers of the Sun Life Centre.
20200331. TD Centre overpass before a black and white sea of steel and glass.
20200330. TD Centre overpass with a Royal Bank Plaza background.
20200329. 350 Bloor Street East is a decent little 1970 brutalist building by Toronto’s Parkin Partnership Architects.
20200328. An intricate ceiling at Sam Pollock Square in Toronto’s Brookfield Place (Architect Santiago Calatrava, c.1992).
20200327. Big Boy Hot Dog was one of the cheapest places to satisfy a weiner craving until the viruses shut him down. Where am I gonna get my footlong fix now?
