Towers in the Park
Towers in the Park ︎
A photographic essay of Toronto’s Saint James Town one of the earliest North American examples of Le Corbusier‘s Towers in the Park concept.
Now derelict and reserved almost exclusively to the recently immigrated it lives on as an artefact of the once brilliant and utopian urban planning that existed in the Western world.
Now derelict and reserved almost exclusively to the recently immigrated it lives on as an artefact of the once brilliant and utopian urban planning that existed in the Western world.
and informed by the foremost
thought leaders in architecture.
A mere 60 years on, decrepit and
hollow, yet more beautiful than the
newest complex in the city. And
why urbanism? Because. It is
the single most present aspect
determining the cartesian limits
of our thoughts. Simultaneously a
relic and demarcation line, Saint
James Town reminds the viewer of
the once great heights Canadian
modernism reached while marking
the very sharp limits to urban life
upon the individual.
