20220312. The Toronto Marine Safety School sits in the shadow of brutalism at the Westin Harbour Castle.
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20220311. A Ledbury Park modern mid-rise office building awaits demolition. Interesting features include curved brise soleil at the top and a semi-elliptical walkway.
20220310. This mixed-use strip mall features a breeze wall on the upper floor providing privacy to renters.
20220309. Rexdale Mall was built in 1956, enclosed in 1972, demolished in 2004 yet the former Zellars/Towers structure survives as the Fresh Value grocery store and a bunch of small businesses – a true Remnant of Mid-Century Toronto.
20220308. The googie gas bar (Canadian Tire, Rexdale, 1968). Googie architecture can also be called expressionist, mid-century modern, space age, Populuxe and Doo Wop and originates at the defunct Googies Coffee Shop in Hollywood. The style features curvilinear geometric shapes and upswept roofs.
20220308. The Don Mouth Naturalization and Port Lands Flood Protection Project is progressing (https://bit.ly/3CrbrZs).
20220307. This postmodern fire station references elements of classical residential architecture including a gable, tower and portico. The brick colours match nearby buildings. Interestingly, the facades opposite seem postmodern too.
20220305. A most unusual parking garage in Forest Hill is fronted by an apartment that must have the strangest floor plan.
20220304. Modern apartment tower ornament may inlcude a rooftop zig-flat-zag canopy.
20220304. There is now a new yellow bridge in the Toronto Port Lands where the T&T Supermarket parking lot was. The Don Mouth Naturalization Project continues.
20220303. This pedestrian bridge over Mimico Creek casts a permanent shadow of rust.
20220302. Founders Residence courtyard entrance, York University. John B. Parkin Associates, 1965.
20220301. Living in Brutalism.
20220228. Brutalist OISE. Kenneth R. Cooper, 1969.
20220227. A shiny and angular condo tower stairwell enclosure at Harris Square.
20220226. The unique Chaplin Place condos by Shar-Dee Towers Limited, 1984.
20220225. Partly purple pillars at Underpass Park.
20220225. So that’s how big the concrete pad for a tower crane is. Jac Condos, 308 Jarvis St, Turner Fleischer Architects Inc.
20220224. As the pigeon flies … by the modern facade (45 Carlton St., Edward I. Richmond, 1981).
20220223. The Three Sisters of Sussex. Only the middle sister (aka the low energy retrofit Gemini House) kept her hat. University of Toronto, Second Empire, 1879.
20220222. Bracing a facade of built Heritage (John James Funston grocery store, 1885). Happy day of twos!
20220221. The modern building at the Dufferin Gate to Exhibition Place.
20220220. 50 Green Belt Drive, the site of a 2008 double murder-suicide and arson is to be demolished for redevelopment. This building was included in ERA’s 2010 inventory of North York’s modernist architecture.
20220219. This bird turd covered structure at Islington Tower serves as a parking garage exit; fire department connection and garage ventilation.
20220218. The Barrett Centre For Technology Innovation, Perkins & Will, 2019.
