Concrete Toronto: a Guide to Concrete Architecture from the Fifties to the Seventies PDF
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concrete toronto a guidebook to concrete architecture from the fifties to the seventies editors michael mcclelland graeme stewart designer steven ho yin chong 018 022 048 This collection copyright © Coach House Books and E. R. A. 050 Architects, 2007 052 054 Individual attributed entries copyright © the authors, 2007 With generous support from: first edition Views expressed herein are those of the authors exclusively. Responsibility for opinions expressed, accuracy of information and any 068 rights to reproduce supplied images or texts rest with the authors. 070 078 No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by docomomo canada ontario any means, electronic or mechanical, or by any information storage 082 and retrieval system without written permission of the publisher. 112 116 120 122 126 128 132 This publication was funded in part by the the Assistance for the 134 Promotion of Architecture program at the Canada Council for the 138 Arts. The publisher would also like to thank, for their support, the Block Grant programs of the Canada Council for the Arts and the 142 Ontario Arts Council. We also acknowledge the Government of 144 Ontario through the Ontario Book Publishing Tax Credit program and 148 the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry 154 Development Program. 160 164 Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Concrete Toronto : a guide to concrete architecture from the fifties to the seventies / edited by Michael McClelland and Graeme Stewart. ISBN 978-1-55245-193-9 1.Architecture--Ontario--Toronto--20th century. 2.Concrete construction--Ontario--Toronto--History--20th century. 3.Toronto (Ont.)--Buildings, structures, etc.--History--20th century. I.McClelland, Michael, 1951- II.Stewart, Graeme, 1981- NA4125.C66 2007 720.9713’54109045 C2007-905650-4 Contents 018 022 048 050 Prelude 006 052 054 Foreword Why Concrete Toronto? 012 Methodology: The Individual Voice 014 Guidebook 068 Maps 018 070 52 Concrete Buildings 022 078 Introduction 082 On Concrete Toronto George Baird 048 Concrete Materiality David Lieberman 050 Canadian Concrete David Rich 052 Looking and Seeing George Thomas Kapelos 054 0 5 6 Interview – Vincent Tovell: 112 Documenting a Cultural Explosion 116 120 Downtown 122 126 Reinforced Concrete in Toronto Robert G. Hill 068 128 New City Hall Christopher Hume 070 132 Design in Concrete and Ronald Mar 078 134 Architectonic Form in Viljo 138 Revell’s Toronto City Hall City Hall’s Concrete Furniture Marsha Kelmans 082 0 8 8 Interview – Macy DuBois: Designing in 142 Toronto, Designing in Concrete 144 The Sheraton Centre Michael McClelland 112 148 The Colonnade Philip Evans 116 154 Toronto Hilton Hotel Alex Bozikovic 120 160 Sears Canada Headquarters Jeff Hayes 122 164 Polish Combatants Association Liam Woofter 126 Branch No. 20 77 Elm Street Ian Chodikoff 128 A View of Toronto from Frederic Urban 132 70 Alexander Street Sidney Smith Hall Shawn Micallef 134 Ontario Institute for John Martins-Manteiga 138 Studies in Education Tartu College Thomas Tampold 142 Rochdale College Scott Sorli 144 The McLaughlin Planetarium Scott Weir 148 Medical Sciences Building Scott Sorli 154 Building Med Sci Anne Miller 160 John P. Robarts Library Mary Lou Lobsinger 164 Infrastructure Metro Concrete John Van Nostrand 176 The Donald D. Summerville Andrew Pruss 178 Olympic Pool The Gardiner Expressway Calvin Brook 182 The Rise of Parking Marie-Josée Therrien 186 Garages Eglinton West Subway Ian Chodikoff 190 Station The Manulife Centre Is Robert Ouellette 194 a Brute The Manulife Centre: Michael Clifford 198 1967 to Today The CN Tower Michael McClelland 204 The Modern Suburbs Toronto’s Modern Suburbs Graeme Stewart 212 and the Concrete High-Rise The Age of Modern High-Rise Ivan Saleff 218 Construction The Flying Form and Lewis Poplak 220 Development in Toronto Uno Prii: Sculptor in Concrete Alfred Holden 222 2 2 6 Interview – Uno Prii: Vertical Sculpture (conducted by Alfred Holden) Ortho Pharmaceutical Dave LeBlanc 240 The Don Valley Parkway and Graeme Stewart 242 Suburban Growth Poured Stone Sculpture: A Tour Dave LeBlanc 244 of Toronto’s Postwar Portes Cochères The Yonge Eglinton Centre Robyn Heuther 246 JCCC/Noor Cultural Raymond Moriyama 248 Centre with Kathryn Seymour Ontario Science Centre Raymond Moriyama 252 with Kathryn Seymour Yorkdale Shopping Centre Veronica Madonna 256 Richard Serra – Shift Adrian Blackwell 260 Concrete Libraries in Toronto’s Chase Z. Li 262 Modern Suburbs Ross Social Sciences and Philip Beesley 264 Humanities Building, York University Beyond Toronto Trent University Lisa Rochon 274 McMaster Health Sciences Tom Bessai 276 Centre The University of Guelph Ian Panabaker & 278 Wilfred Ferwerda Building with Concrete Concrete as a Building Material Chris Andrews 286 Building Parts Anne Miller 288 Beer Precast Elizabeth Hulse 290 The Broken-Rib Panel and the Pina Petricone 292 Virtues of Ugly Selling Concrete Anne Miller 294 3 0 0 Interview – Morden Yolles: Building in Concrete Durability Is Only Skin Deep Ted Kesik 312 Concrete, Conservation and James Ashby 314 Continuity Architectural Concrete: David Bowick 318 A Designer’s Perspective 3 2 8 Transcript – Scarborough College Is Concrete (John Andrews, Vincent Tovell) Afterword Scarborough College’s Paolo Scrivano 334 Brutalist Dreams Toronto’s Experience in Kathryn Anderson 340 Preservation Has Not Always Been Concrete Concrete Ideas Pina Petricone 342 The Canadian War Museum: Brian Rudy 346 A Case Study Acknowledgements 352 List of Contributors 354 Credits 356 ‘I have to say that from the beginning I was fortunate in coming into my practice during the pulsating ’60s of this country’s enormous growth, which offered all sorts of opportunities … One could make experiments. One could find clients wanting to try new things … Sometimes they succeeded and sometimes they didn’t. But it was a very rich, vibrant time we’ve had. And architects everywhere have benefited from that …’ Irving Grossman ‘Canadian architecture, remarkably producing quality building after quality building at a tremendous rate ...’ Progressive Architecture
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