20220406. The residential strip mall make sense. Rexdale Mews features an elevated townhouse complex with private entrances.
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20220405. A little horizontal holds its own against the vertical. Minimal Aesthetic #169.
20220404. The Canadian Tire with the Googie gas bar (Rexdale, 1968, see image 20220308) features novel brick work.
20220403. Sunday is a good day for a church. Here is St. Andrew’s Roman Catholic Church in Rexdale.
20220402. The typical Etobicoke Hydro Substation was available in various colours of brick. These buildings use transformers to step down the voltage of electricity for home use.
20220401. Like a giant Y, the Tedford Gardens apartment building stretches off into the distance.
20220331. Inside a large empty industrial warehouse destined to be demolished to make way for a new and more efficient large industrial warehouse.
With Rehearsal Factory on Front Street closed, finding music rehearsal space in Toronto is harder. The building itself awaits demolition but the front facade will be saved.
20220329. Three of four corners at Front and Parliament currently await redevelopment including the First Parliament site and land needed for building the Ontario Line subway.
20220328. The Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema has that art moderne vibe.
20220327. Fenestration can be fun at night II.
20220326. Fenestration can be fun at night.
20220325. The new entrance to Kennedy station and the Eglinton Crosstown is an excellent place to mount a cell tower.
20220324. The imposing monolithic St. Roch’s Church.
20220323. C is for curved and cylindrical and concrete. Minimal Aesthetic #168.
20220322. Although overcast here, the Toronto West Seventh Day Adventist Church casts a shadow shaped like a mountain with regular peaks.
20220321. Don’t you just love that corduroy concrete in the morning sun?
20220320. The Holy Word Church spreads its word from a small cute Gothic Revival style building on McCaul.
20220319. The amazing Mount Olive Seventh-day Adventist Church with its high pitch curved roof (rear).
20220318. The amazing Mount Olive Seventh-day Adventist Church with its curved and spiked concave gable (front).
20220317. Lawrence Square has been rebranded the Lawrence Allen Centre complete with a recladding of its postmodern shell.
20220316. #Rexdale 4. Mounds of dirt stand where a new mall will replace the demolished Sears warehouse in Rexdale. One of the first Contact Photo exhibits I went to featured photos of mounds not unlike these ones. Guess it stuck with me.
20220315. As the GO grows. GO Expansion includes the Davenport Guideway and Greenway (a park under an elevated railway). Once past Wallace Ave, the guideway returns to ground.
20220314. As the GO grows. GO Expansion includes the Davenport Guideway and Greenway – a park created by an elevated railway crossing over the CP Rail tracks at the Davenport Diamond.
20220313. An Art Deco inspired parking garage in pink and orange near hospital row.
