Research Catalog

Title

Concrete Toronto : a guidebook to concrete architecture from the fifties to the seventies / editors, Michael McClelland, Graeme Stewart.

Publication

[Toronto] : Coach House Books, [2007], ©2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

• McClelland, Michael, 1951-
• Stewart, Graeme, 1981-

Description

353 pages : illustrations, maps; 21 cm

Summary

"Underappreciated and misunderstood, the more than fifty concrete projects considered here represent an exciting era of cultural investment and design innovation. A product of Canada's coming into its own culturally, economically and artistically, Toronto's modern concrete heritage is a testament to Canadian optimism and nation-building following the second world war." "Concrete Toronto brings together the perspectives of a diverse group of experts who re-examine and explore these buildings. You will find the insights of many of the original architects, local practitioners from some of Toronto's leading architecture and engineering firms, city planners, university faculty and students, historians and journalists. Together they explore, with new and archival photos, drawings, interviews, articles, and case studies, the past and future of our concrete buildings and the role of concrete as a material in their conception."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Toronto (Ont.) > Buildings, structures, etc > History > 20th century
• Concrete construction > Ontario > Toronto > History > 20th century
• Architecture > Ontario > Toronto > History > 20th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Why Concrete Toronto? -- Methodology: The Individual Voice -- Guidebook -- Maps -- 52 Concrete Buildings -- On Concrete Toronto / George Baird -- Concrete Materiality / David Lieberman -- Canadian Concrete / David Rich -- Looking and Seeing / George Thomas Kopelos -- Interview - Vincent Tovell: Documenting a Cultural Explosion -- Downtown -- Reinforced Concrete in Toronto / Robert G. Hill -- New City Hall / Christopher Hurne -- Design in Concrete and Architectonic Farm in Viljo: Revell's Toronto City Hall / Ronald Mar -- City Hall's Concrete Furniture / Marsha Kelmans -- Interview - Macy DuBois: Designing in Toronto, Designing in Concrete -- The Sheraton Centre / Michael McClelland -- The Colonnade / Philip Evans -- Toronto Hilton Hotel / Alex Bozikovic -- Sears Canada Headquarters / Jeff Hayes -- Polish Combatants Association: Branch No. 20 / Liam Woofter -- 77 Elm Street / Ian Chodikoff -- A View of Toronto from 70 Alexander Street / Frederic Urban -- Sidney Smith Hall / Shawn Micallef -- Ontario Institute for Studies in Education / John Martins-Manteiga -- Tartu College / Thomas Tampold -- Rochdale College / Scott Sorli -- The McLaughlin Planetarium / Scott Weir -- Medical Sciences Building / Scott Sorli -- Building Med Sci / Anne Miller -- John P. Robarts Library / Mary Lou Lobsinger -- Infrastructure -- Metro Concrete / John Van Nostrand -- The Donald D. Summerville Olympic Pool / Andrew Pruss -- The Gardiner Expressway / Calvin Brook -- The Rise of Parking Garages / Marie-Josee Therrien -- Eglinton West Subway Station / Ian Chodikoff -- The Manulife Centre Is a Brute / Robert Ouellette -- The Manulife Centre: 1967 to Today / Michael Clifford -- The CN Tower / Michael McClelland -- The Modern Suburbs -- Toronto's Modern Suburbs and the Concrete High-Rise / Graeme Stewart -- The Age of Modern High-Rise Construction / Ivan Saleff -- The Flying Form and Development in Toronto / Lewis Poplak -- Uno Prii: Sculptor in Concrete / Alfred Holden -- Interview - Uno Prii: Vertical Sculpture (conducted by Alfred Holden) -- Ortho Pharmaceutical / Dave LeBlanc -- The Don Valley Parkway and Suburban Growth / Graeme Stewart -- Poured Stone Sculpture: A Tour of Toronto's Postwar Portes Cocheres / Dave LeBlanc -- The Yonge Eglinton Centre / Robyn Heuther -- JCCC/Noor Cultural Centre / Raymond Moriyama and Kathryn Seymour -- Ontario Science Centre / Raymond Moriyama and Kathryn Seymour -- Yorkdale Shopping Centre / Veronica Madonna -- Richard Serra - Shift / Adrian Blackwell -- Concrete Libraries in Toronto's Modern Suburbs / Chase Z. Li -- Ross Social Sciences and Humanities Building, York University / Philip Beesley -- Beyond Toronto -- Trent University / Lisa Rochon -- McMaster Health Sciences Centre / Tom Bessai -- The University of Guelph / Ian Panabaker and Wilfred Ferwerda -- Building with Concrete -- Concrete as a Building Material / Chris Andrews -- Building Paris / Anne Miller -- Beer Precast / Elizabeth Hulse -- The Broken-Rib Panel and the Virtues of Ugly / Pina Petricone -- Selling Concrete / Anne Miller -- Interview - Morden Yolles: Building in Concrete -- Durability Is Only Skin Deep / Ted Kesik -- Concrete, Conservation and Continuity / James Ashby -- Architectural Concrete: A Designer's Perspective / David Bowick -- Transcript - Scarborough College Is Concrete (John Andrews, Vincent Tovell) -- Scarborough College's Brutalist Dreams / Paolo Scrivano -- Toronto's Experience in Preservation Has Not Always Been Concrete / Kathryn Anderson -- Concrete Ideas / Pina Petricone -- The Canadian War Museum: A Case Study / Brian Rudy.

ISBN

• 9781552451939
• 1552451933

LCCN

99819552225

OCLC

• 173508905
• SCSB-5392944

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries