First Canadian Place marble panels falling

[Edward]

There was an article in the paper last week about a hall in Finland or Sweden that was clad in the same material. It started coming off so they made a decision to reclad the entire building with the same marble. Within a few years the new cladding started to come off again. They need to redo FCP in something other than this marble. It obviously doesn't work as cladding.

 

[Prometheus The Supremo]

it needs to be reclad in a material that looks somewhat the same. when i was talking about preservation i was talking about the design & lines, not about the marble.

i don't approve of the patchwork job.

 

[Urban Shocker]

The dappled south face - which is the most discoloured - looks quite spectacular. You've got to admire BeeeMo's chutzpa in going ahead and doing this re-clad, given how long it is taking. Watching it evolve reminds me of the French artist Orlan, who has been changing her appearance through plastic surgery for the past fifteen years at least.

 

[AndreaPalladio]

Except that any re-do is not BMO's doing. They've never owned the building.

 

[Hydrogen]

The shabby chic of towers of yesteryear. All it needs is some vines and a rumpled dowager to greet you at the door with iced tea.

 

[ShonTron]

The dappled south face - which is the most discoloured - looks quite spectacular.

Craptacular.

 

[Irishmonk]

FCP's cladding is starting to remind me of OCAD.

 

[Waterloo_Guy]

FCP's cladding is starting to remind me of OCAD.

Great, everyone likes OCAD!

 

[ShonTron]

You want OCAD-esque cladding? Feast your eyes on this close-up!

 

[DaninToronto]

Should be cleaning the facade while they're at it.

 

[AndreaPalladio]

The facade gets cleaned ever time the windows do. The cleaner is automated. It scrubs the whole surface.

 

[adma]

Max Fabiani did it first in Vienna, and better

 

[Sir Novelty Fashion]

The facade gets cleaned ever time the windows do. The cleaner is automated. It scrubs the whole surface.

 

[ShonTron]

Androids!

I think that's about as much of a close up as should be allowed under decency laws.

 

[AndreaPalladio]

That's not the window washer in that photo - it's the inspection gantry. The window washer is one building module (ie, four tiles) wide. It goes down, cleaning all the way, and then comes back to the top and cleans its way down again. If you have an office there, you see that it scrubs over both glass and marble.