junctionist
Senior Member
Black brick is quite common in terms of New Modernist architecture. One sees it in the King East area, Fort York, and in new infill along old Toronto avenues like Queen Street. The new 11 Division police station nearby has black brick. People may find it boring in larger quantities. It's not red brick that I want, but variation. There is indeed lot of red brick among the older buildings in the neighbourhood, but the tones change from facade to facade with the occasional yellow or brown brick facade. Sometimes there's a mix of colours, or the beauty of polychromatic brickwork--an architectural idea that I'd love to see adopted into contemporary architecture in a modern way. I didn't see yellow brick facades facing the paths in the latest renderings of this project. There are the old renderings of yellow brick facades facing the street and the newer ones with black brick facades. The yellow in the earlier renderings logically continued to the backs of the buildings.