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20210827. Modern August #27. The 1965 Bell Telephone building podium and tower at 76 Adelaide St W just lost its very thoughtful facade. Note how the brown exchange building in the background has a similar fenestration. Will the new facade be this thoughtful?

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20200605. Whites Location Equipment Supply has equipped the film industry for over 50 years from this massive modern warehouse.

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20210826. Modern August #26. Seeya Celestica as you make way for the Crosstown Community.

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20210825. Modern August #25. An office building with a zig zag canopy is an unusual sight. Sadly, the Wilson and Bathurst Medical Centre may be redeveloped.

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20210824. Modern August #24. John B. Parkin’s forever contemporary Ortho Pharmaceutical Building (1955).

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20210823. Modern August #23. The 1973 Islington St. Andrews Toronto Community Housing high-rise development has a entirely unique architecture.

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20210822. Modern August (#22) would not be complete without including the semi-circular Riverdale Hospital (1963), demolished in 2013 to make way for the Bridgepoint Hospital.

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20210820. Modern August #20. This mid-century modern transformer home (shell house with equipment that steps down voltage for home use) has fine detailing in both front and rear.

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20210819. Modern August #19. The 44 Wellesworth neighbourhood plaza (1960) with the 6-12 Variety Store, probably two of the most functionally named places around.

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20210818. Modern August #18. The handsome Dominion of Canada General Insurance Company building at 165 University Avenue opened on September 11, 1962.

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20210817. Modern August #17. A doomed mid-20th Century mall.

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20210816. Modern August #16. The triangle is ubiquitous in modernist churches as seen here at the 1966 Immanuel Baptist Church in Hillcrest Village.

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20210815. Modern August #15. Triangular north elevation of Mimico Presbyterian Church (1958).

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20210814. Modern August #14. The Trillium Apartments with its funky concrete port cochere and fountain.

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20210813. Modern August #13. Castle Frank Station

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20210812. Modern August #12. The spectacular mid-century modern Humber Valley United Church (1953).

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20210811. Modern August #11. The tight zigzag roofiline of the Plast Huculak Centre, a Ukrainian Youth Organization.

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20210810. Modern August #10. The curved mid-century modern strip mall at Cedar Heights Plaza.

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20210809. Modern August #9. St. Ansgar Lutheran Church is yet another fine modernist edifice.

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20210808. Modern August #8. The Evangeline Residence is the second largest women’s shelter in Toronto (from 2017 – the facade is a little less colourful now).

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20210807. Modern August #7. The chapel’s impressive facade of brick, stone and copper at St. John Henry Newman Catholic High School may soon be no more than a facade as the school is replaced.

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20210806. Modern August #6. Toronto’s modern Celestica (formerly IBM) Offices (1965) shall soon sprout buildings as high as 130 metres as the Crosstown comes to Don Mills and Eglinton.

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20210805. Modern August #5. The walk-up apartment building at 71 Guildwood Parkway features overlapping entrance canopies or port cocheres.

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20210804. Modern August #4. The distinctive concave facade of the Ontario Court of Justice Criminal Youth and Family Courts building. Peter Dickinson, 1957.

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20210803. Modern August #3. Uno Prii’s 1968 Gallery Towers seems to be getting a facelift. 50 Stephanie Street, Toronto.

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