adma
Superstar
Yeah, but it could be worse. Imagine if it was Stalinist "commie block" styling rather than Khrushchev/Brezhnev...
Sir Novelty Fashion
Senior Member
Urban Shocker
Doyenne
I shall be dining with the good widow Prii this evening. An interview Uno gave is to be published soon, I believe.
AlvinofDiaspar
Moderator
SNF:
Excellent point - I wonder if we are getting our 21st century equivalent.
AoD
Excellent point - I wonder if we are getting our 21st century equivalent.
AoD
urbandreamer
recession proof
Urban Shocker tell Mrs. Prii I lived in two of those Annex Prii buildings--and miss them very much. Very nice balcony's, lotsa students mixed with older folk who've lived in them for 30 years, spacious, and interesting to look at from outside!
H
Hydrogen
Guest
Were the older folks students who never left?
I lived in a building like that once.
I lived in a building like that once.
Urban Shocker
Doyenne
Mrs. Prii, at 82, is in fine form. The book that includes an interview with Uno will be published by Coach House Press, later this year:
CONCRETE TORONTO: A GUIDE TO CONCRETE ARCHITECTURE FROM THE FIFTIES TO THE SEVENTIES
Edited by Michael McClelland and Graeme Stewart
Price: $29.95
300 pages
Paperback
The RCYC club house offers a unique view of the city. The evening was cool and damp and the four of us ( a widow, a journalist, an architect, and a designer ) ate inside, but on my previous visit I sat outside on the wide ground floor verandah - and I can't think of a more spectacular place to dine and "city-watch" than that. There is a second floor verandah too. And a second floor banquet room with high oval recessed windows and old murals on two walls showing scenes of the harbour. There has been some discussion amongst members of the Club about the future of the place: some want to build a new structure while others want to renovate a grand old building which one senses is in need of a little help.
Tuesday is race night but we left before the sailors returned. At eight o'clock the Union Jack was lowered, the cannon was fired, the RCYC launch arrived, and we departed.
CONCRETE TORONTO: A GUIDE TO CONCRETE ARCHITECTURE FROM THE FIFTIES TO THE SEVENTIES
Edited by Michael McClelland and Graeme Stewart
Price: $29.95
300 pages
Paperback
The RCYC club house offers a unique view of the city. The evening was cool and damp and the four of us ( a widow, a journalist, an architect, and a designer ) ate inside, but on my previous visit I sat outside on the wide ground floor verandah - and I can't think of a more spectacular place to dine and "city-watch" than that. There is a second floor verandah too. And a second floor banquet room with high oval recessed windows and old murals on two walls showing scenes of the harbour. There has been some discussion amongst members of the Club about the future of the place: some want to build a new structure while others want to renovate a grand old building which one senses is in need of a little help.
Tuesday is race night but we left before the sailors returned. At eight o'clock the Union Jack was lowered, the cannon was fired, the RCYC launch arrived, and we departed.
Urban Shocker
Doyenne
Maybe the yacht club will hire Gehry to do a new clubhouse? Y'know, one of them Greatest Hits swoopy/curvy things just about everyone assumed we were going to get at the AGO.
Most of us live on the mainland, so we'd all get a nice view of the damn thing.
Most of us live on the mainland, so we'd all get a nice view of the damn thing.
I'd rather look across Toronto Harbour to a Gehry I would be welcomed into, as opposed to one where the security guards would be like "you there, put your hands up where we can see them" and I'd be like "you'll never take me alive, coppers!" and then they'd be all "drop that laptop sir, last warning" and I'd be furiously typing and clicking 'til this thread was moderated back onto topic.
42
42
Urban Shocker
Doyenne
What club wouldn't want you as a member? You'd be welcomed with open arms, greeted with a "hello sailor" and a saucy 
as soon as you stepped ashore. They might even let you lower the Union Jack and fire off the little cannon at eight o'clock.
I didn't see any security guards, though we did have to hand in little slips of paper with our names on as we boarded the launch. The club has a large property over there with tennis courts, a bowling green, swimming pool and moorings for boats and a dry dock for the winter and goodness knows what else.
Their city clubhouse is on St.George just north of Bloor. Which, when you think of it, is quite close to that fascinating new condo called Casa that everyone is talking about these days, the condo designed by Peter Clewes of aA on Bloor Street.
as soon as you stepped ashore. They might even let you lower the Union Jack and fire off the little cannon at eight o'clock. I didn't see any security guards, though we did have to hand in little slips of paper with our names on as we boarded the launch. The club has a large property over there with tennis courts, a bowling green, swimming pool and moorings for boats and a dry dock for the winter and goodness knows what else.
Their city clubhouse is on St.George just north of Bloor. Which, when you think of it, is quite close to that fascinating new condo called Casa that everyone is talking about these days, the condo designed by Peter Clewes of aA on Bloor Street.
Canuck
Active Member
Aug 22
casaguy
Senior Member
Casa Condominium Progress Sept 2, 2007
Diggin' deeper...
What's up with the rather precise "step effect" they've created?
Diggin' deeper...
What's up with the rather precise "step effect" they've created?
jaborandi
Active Member
Diggin' deeper...
What's up with the rather precise "step effect" they've created?
for the crane? hot tub? stadium seating?
casaguy
Senior Member
The crane would definitely make sense. (Here's hoping!)
AlvinofDiaspar
Moderator
Service core (elevator shaft, staircases) perhaps? I wonder if the terraced material is bedrock...
AoD
AoD