20230717. Why is new suburban infrastructure so boring? Or have bridges and underpasses always been this way? Do the strips of colour and stone median count as adornment?
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20230716. Vaughan Postmodern Industrial Park Architecture.
20230715. A sleepy subdivision in the suburbs.
20230712. The mid-century modern highrise.
20230711. Unusual Morningside Heights architecture.
20230710. The crane gang.
20230709. What the heck was this architect thinking? That strange postmodern office architecture at the Metro East Corporate Centre (1986) II.
20230708. That strange postmodern office architecture at the Metro East Corporate Centre (1986).
20230707. Virtual Colonnade II.
20230706. Virtual Colonnade.
20230705. From Gardiner Expressway egg-shaped off-ramp to a park with a pool shaped like a heart facing true north. I am happy that Love Park is more understated than expected.
20230704. The Beaches XIII: The companion facades of the Fox Theatre. Its entrance and its auditorium lie perpendicular to each other. So: Image 1 – entrance and apartments. Image 2 – apartments around the corner book-ending the auditorium. Note identical styles of brickwork on cornices, roofline, bay windows. The book-end may provide clues as to what the entrance once looked like.
20230703. Postmodern Foyer.
20230702. Rectangles and their reflections.
20230701. The Beaches XII: The corner store at 2377 Queen St E was once a Tamblyn Drugs store in the early 20th Century. Now it’s a cafe and cell phone tower base. Tamblyn -> Boots Drug Stores -> Pharma Plus Drugmarts -> Rexall.
20230630. Looking up, way up at 19 Duncan.
20230629. Look at the extension on that fire hydrant!
20230628. The Beaches XI: The singular Silverbirch Housing Co-operative.
20230627. Do we really need more glass office boxes downtown? Bay Adelaide Centre (from 2016).
20230626. The Beaches X: Welcome to The Boardwalk (1929) at 2405 Queen Street East. Yet another interesting facade in the Beach.
20230625. This 1906 S. Price and Sons Dairy Building (worth $31,000 then), and most recently Diamond Taxi, is an example of Edwardian Classicism by J. Francis Brown.
20230624. A tower at MacDonald Block looking all shiny and new.
20230623. The Beaches IX: Shall we call Brookmount Place (1836 Queen Street East) an Edwardian Revival with Spanish or Tudor detailings?
20220622. Wellington Street is moving on up.
20220621. The Beaches VIII: In 1997, the Toronto United Mennonite Church built this postmodern oddity after demolishing their 1961 church. I wonder what that looked like.
