“It is truly bizarre. For a start it is almost uniformly grey.” Guardian reporter Sean Thomas’s description of Le Corbusier’s Couvent de la Tourette is a notably unsympathetic one*, but not an entirely uncommon one. Concrete is quite often dismissed as simply dull, bland, and grey. And […]
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UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO MEDICAL SCIENCES BUILDING | Toronto
LOCATION: 1 King’s College Cir, University of Toronto – St. George Campus, Toronto, ON M5S 1A8, Canada ARCHITECT: Peter Goering DATES: 1966-1969 NOTES: Building’s art budget was dedicated to precast panels on facade designed by artists Ted Bieler and Robert Downing. Site Visit: Fri May […]
FORMER ARMSTRONG TIRE CO BUILDING | New Haven
LOCATION: 500 Sargent Dr, New Haven, CT ARCHITECT: Marcel Breuer DATES: 1968-1970 NOTES: Building suffered partial demolition in 2003 while under IKEA’s ownership (this was a compromise from IKEA’s proposed full demolition of the building); still owned by IKEA, the building remains vacant today. Site Visit: […]