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20140623. Contextualism #2: The distant building addresses its context in terms of the materials, forms and details of the closer building.

20140623. Contextualism 2: The distant building addresses its context in terms of the materials, forms and details of the closer building.
If all of Peter Dickinson’s high-rises (foreground) are demolished, a memory of them will exist in 90 Sumach (background).
Note the similar forms and details: colour of brick, shape of each patch of brick, the window style and the way each building features vertical lines of windows.