20220923. An industrial park office building with interesting precast coarse aggregate concrete panels that interact with matching window blinds.
Tag Archives: precast
20220502. Concrete detailing can add so much to a building. Here, 10 Prue Ave uses precast corduroy concrete panels on the balconies and under the windows.
20220420. The contrasting textures of concrete at Kelly Library.
20220419. Concrete Envelope. Minimal Aesthetic #172.
20220413. Ah the texture of exposed pebble concrete. Minimal Aesthetic #171.
20220119. Precast Concrete vs Corrugated Metal. Minimal Aesthetic #167.
20210531. Concave precast concrete panels adorn Taylor Creek Public School.
20210513. Bike rack at precast concrete wall. Minimal Aesthetic 154.
20201108. The east facade of The Kingsford, a permanently closed affordable senior community in Peterborough.
20200322. The Sheraton Centre Toronto has some nice lines. John B. Parkin Associates with design consultant Seppo Valjus, 1972.
20180611. Taking a break at a Toronto Hydro electric substation with a pretty cool precast concrete wall.
20180601. The windowless west precast corduroy concrete facade of the Sheraton Centre tower.
An underground parking exit ramp can be made elegent with the use of patterned precast concrete.
20140422. Precast Concrete Stairwell Wall. U of T Medical Sciences Building, Minimal Aesthetic 110.
20170418. When completed in 1968, Rochdale College was an experiment in alternate learning.
20170304. Up, underneath the Princes’ Gates celebrating 60 years of Confederation. Chapman & Oxley, Beaux Arts, 1927.
20160822. The Toronto South Detention Centre maximum security building can hold 1650 male remanded offenders.
20160319. Walking by the Interncontinental cliff in Toronto’s Simcoe canyon.
The 1984-built Interncontinental Toronto Centre Hotel was formerly the Crowne Plaza Hotel Toronto and L’Hotel CN before that.
20160224. From Dow Corning to Church of the Resurrection, another great Macy Dubois modernist building (1965).
20160205. Monochrome precast 6m hollow concrete sphere.
This decaying globe and sundail will remain once Toronto’s Harbour Square park is redesigned along with the ferry terminal.
20150201. University of Toronto’s Tartu College (c.1969) is brutalist but elegant with its thin precast cedar-board-formed concrete exterior walls.
