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Camera: Rolleicord IV, Tri-x 400, Xtol, NYC 2012, Location: The High Line, NYC.
Why can't we have cool architecture like this in Toronto?
Modern architecture, or modernist architecture, was an architectural style based upon new and innovative technologies of construction, particularly the use of glass, steel, and reinforced concrete; the idea that form should follow function (functionalism); an embrace of minimalism; and a rejection of ornament. It emerged in the first half of the 20th century and became dominant after World War II until the 1980s, when it was gradually replaced as the principal style for institutional and corporate buildings by postmodern architecture.
Then and now.
Modern house in Aarau / Switzerland 🇨🇠built in 1927
by the architect Richard Hächler.
The first house in Aarau "in the style of coming architecture after Le Corbusier".
already in 1932 the architect converted part of the roof terrace into two rooms. The garage was built in 1934.
The building is a timewitness of the modern age. it is under municipal protection.
Built in 1965-1966, this Organic Modern building was designed by William Wesley Peters of Taliesin Associated Architects and built by Robert E. McKee for the Lincoln Income Life Insurance Company, and was originally known as the Lincoln Tower, with a smaller podium building, attached to the main structure with a canopy, which housed a branch of the Liberty National Bank and Trust Company. The building was purchased by the Kaden Company in 1986, and subsequently became known as the Kaden Tower. The building stands 196 feet (60 meters) tall, with a main massing that cantilevers above the base, which is clad in a screen made up of interlocking circles and curves, a cantilevered penthouse at the top of the tower, a vertical circulation tower on one side of the building, with an external glass-enclosed elevator that rises inside a lace-like metal enclosure, an elliptical and cylindrical one-story attached podium building with a similar exterior screen to the one on the exterior of the tower, which originally housed a bank branch, and is attached to the main building via a simple rectilinear canopy, and a domed podium at the base of the tower, surrounded by a pond, with a covered concrete terrace, and domed skylights. The building today has been renamed the Wright Tower, as it was heavily influenced by the design philosophy of Frank Lloyd Wright, and was designed by a group of people who worked for Wright, despite being built after Wright's death. The building remains in use as an office building, with an upscale Ruth's Chris Steakhouse in the top floor.
Beyeler Foundation, Basel, designed by Renzo Piano. Every stone on the facing has a different pattern (see picture further on)