Table Of Contentconcrete toronto a guidebook to
concrete
architecture from
the fifties to the
seventies
editors michael mcclelland
graeme stewart
designer steven ho yin chong
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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
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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
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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
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Prelude 006
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Foreword
Why Concrete Toronto? 012
Methodology: The Individual Voice 014
Guidebook
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Maps 018
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Introduction
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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:
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Documenting a Cultural Explosion
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Downtown
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Reinforced Concrete in Toronto Robert G. Hill 068
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New City Hall Christopher Hume 070
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Design in Concrete and Ronald Mar 078
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Architectonic Form in Viljo
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Revell’s Toronto City Hall
City Hall’s Concrete Furniture Marsha Kelmans 082
0 8 8 Interview – Macy DuBois: Designing in
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Toronto, Designing in Concrete
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The Sheraton Centre Michael McClelland 112
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The Colonnade Philip Evans 116
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Toronto Hilton Hotel Alex Bozikovic 120
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Sears Canada Headquarters Jeff Hayes 122
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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
