National Post

Torontonians exhibit an odd way of celebrating the city's great modernist buildings: We carefully protect them until wrecking crews can knock them down. Look around our streets and consider the carnage. We bulldozed the Inn on the Park on Leslie Street. What happened to the much-loved Bulova Clock Tower at the CNE? Declared unsafe, its dismemberment made way for the Indy Car race. Will the Bata Head Office on Eglinton Avenue survive the city's modernist purge? No. A beautiful symbol, its days are numbered. What happened to the tiny perfect bank pavilion at Wellington and Church streets? Its fate is worse than mere destruction. Now a pizza parlour, the building is a kitsch-like parody of its former self.