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Documenting Modernist architecture in Toronto, Canada. A medley of motor hotels. September 4, 2015. James A. Murray. In Toronto, the model was epitomized by the sleek and glamourous Four Seasons Motor Hotel. And the Inn on the Park, both designed by Peter Dickinson, and the Scandinavian-influenced Valhalla Inn. By George Robb. Joining the trend in the early 1960s were three other notable architect-designed motor hotels: the Constellation Hotel, the Ascot 27 Hotel and the Canadiana Motor Hotel. Overlookin...
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Imperial Oil’s Parthenon of petroleum | Toronto Modern
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Documenting Modernist architecture in Toronto, Canada. Season’s Greetings from the first Four Seasons. Bregman Hamann: Spaces for People. Imperial Oil’s Parthenon of petroleum. January 31, 2012. John B. Parkin Associates. Responses to “Imperial Oil’s Parthenon of petroleum”. Feed for this Entry. December 31, 2012 at 12:54 am. Nice writeup. Thanks. 10 lost gems of Modern architecture in Toronto – nonpartisansblog. On August 11, 2016 at 2:53 am. 10 lost gems of Modern architecture in Toronto – Mika Mi.
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Bregman + Hamann: Spaces for People | Toronto Modern
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Documenting Modernist architecture in Toronto, Canada. Imperial Oil’s Parthenon of petroleum. Marketing Mies at the TD Centre. Bregman Hamann: Spaces for People. May 18, 2012. Spaces for People,. Addresses this mercantile reality while acknowledging, as the title suggests, humanism, urbanism, community and public space values that by the late 1970s were embedded in the consciousness of a public increasingly sceptical toward large-scale development. Feed for this Entry. June 5, 2015 at 11:25 am. Thank you...
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James Murray’s model for modern living | Toronto Modern
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Documenting Modernist architecture in Toronto, Canada. Marketing Mies at the TD Centre. Conserving a Hideo Sasaki landscape. James Murray’s model for modern living. July 20, 2015. James A. Murray. Modernism had a very slow start in Toronto’s residential neighbourhoods. In contrast to the rapid acceptance of new design in many North American centres after World War II, by the early 1950s Toronto could claim only a handful of truly Modernist houses. Feed for this Entry. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. You are ...
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Six scenes of Toronto City Hall | Toronto Modern
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Documenting Modernist architecture in Toronto, Canada. Five sculptures at the University of Toronto. Season’s Greetings from the first Four Seasons. Six scenes of Toronto City Hall. November 25, 2011. John B. Parkin Associates. Was not unveiled on Nathan Phillips Square until October 1966. The central lobby is dominated by the Hall of Memory war memorial. A massive mushroom-shaped column bursts upward from a sunken amphitheatre, supporting the council chamber above and flooded with light from below&#...
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The long-lost Lord Simcoe Hotel | Toronto Modern
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Documenting Modernist architecture in Toronto, Canada. Five sculptures at the University of Toronto. The long-lost Lord Simcoe Hotel. September 1, 2011. Opened on May 15, 1957 at 150 King Street West and University Avenue, the Lord Simcoe Hotel was one of Toronto’s first postwar downtown hotels and certainly the shortest-lived. In October 1979, after only 22 years of operation, the hotel closed its doors and was subsequently demolished to make way for the east tower of the Sun Life Centre. I have many fo...
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Five sculptures at the University of Toronto | Toronto Modern
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Documenting Modernist architecture in Toronto, Canada. The long-lost Lord Simcoe Hotel. Six scenes of Toronto City Hall. Five sculptures at the University of Toronto. September 14, 2011. 1963, at top) reflects artist Gerald Gladstone’s interest in celestial bodies and space exploration. Mounted upon the Larkin Academic Building at 15 Devonshire Place, the sculpture’s patinated bronze discs and rods effectively contrast the rough limestone of the wall behind. 1962), a cast-bronze piece by Walter Yarwood&#...
