caltrane74
Senior Member
That is an amazing picture! - It's very exciting to see what the final product will look like after 4 months of having this scaffolding hanging off the top of the building.
Toronto First Canadian Place Rejuvenation | 298.08m | 72s | Brookfield | MdeAS Architects
raclll
Active Member
Hopefully it will look more "white" in the more direct sunlight. We'll see in a couple of hours.
Tulse
Senior Member
Having the cladding in such large pieces should make a big different over the previous, smaller marble panels -- this will go a long way in making the building look cleaner and less busy.
Rowe
Active Member
I don't mind what colour it is.. just not dirty.
caltrane74
Senior Member
Sculptors recycle First Canadian Place marble
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/848993--sculptors-recycle-first-canadian-place-marble
Toronto builders chose the same Italian marble for First Canadian Place as Michelangelo used for carving his masterpiece David.
Now some of the tower’s stone is to be turned into sculptures as well.
The owners donated 1,600 marble slabs worth $250,000 to a Toronto artists’ group, which publicly begins reworking them Friday into statues and murals.
“The whole idea of creating art from recycled material prompted us to do it,” says Zoya Balija, owner of Leonardo Galleries and a member of the group, Toronto Art Visions.
“This marble is one of the best — Carrara marble from northern Italy,” she said Wednesday. “Its quality is known worldwide.”
The exterior marble panels from Canada’s tallest office building are being removed one by one before they fall off, as one did three years ago — plunging 51 storeys onto a third-floor roof without hitting anybody.
In the 35 years since the tower opened at King and Bay Sts. in 1975, hot and cold weather extremes have caused some panels to warp.
A total of 45,000 slabs are to be removed, replaced by glass resistant to thermal stress, the owner Brookfield Properties Corp. has said. The work began in late 2009 and is to be completed next year.
Each marble panel weighs 90 kilograms but each is slim. Sculptors usually start with a block of stone but these measure four centimetres thick, or 1.5 inches.
“We laminate marble panels to make a block,” says Toronto sculptor Francisco Lostalo, Toronto Art Visions president and the main mover behind what he calls “the world’s first international sculpture symposium to use recycled marble.”
For the gathering, he removed 35 years of pollution-grime from the stone and cut the panels to smaller sizes before gluing them into blocks. Five artists from Canada and Costa Rica are to work outdoors in full public view on the building’s west side.
They are to create medium-sized sculptures and a five-panel painted mural, to be displayed at Leonardo Galleries, 133 Avenue Rd., as completed. The exhibition is to run until Sept. 4, with an opening reception Aug. 26, 6:30-9 p.m.
Next year, Lostalo plans an encore event with full-size panels and 18 artists from more than half a dozen countries.
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/848993--sculptors-recycle-first-canadian-place-marble
Toronto builders chose the same Italian marble for First Canadian Place as Michelangelo used for carving his masterpiece David.
Now some of the tower’s stone is to be turned into sculptures as well.
The owners donated 1,600 marble slabs worth $250,000 to a Toronto artists’ group, which publicly begins reworking them Friday into statues and murals.
“The whole idea of creating art from recycled material prompted us to do it,” says Zoya Balija, owner of Leonardo Galleries and a member of the group, Toronto Art Visions.
“This marble is one of the best — Carrara marble from northern Italy,” she said Wednesday. “Its quality is known worldwide.”
The exterior marble panels from Canada’s tallest office building are being removed one by one before they fall off, as one did three years ago — plunging 51 storeys onto a third-floor roof without hitting anybody.
In the 35 years since the tower opened at King and Bay Sts. in 1975, hot and cold weather extremes have caused some panels to warp.
A total of 45,000 slabs are to be removed, replaced by glass resistant to thermal stress, the owner Brookfield Properties Corp. has said. The work began in late 2009 and is to be completed next year.
Each marble panel weighs 90 kilograms but each is slim. Sculptors usually start with a block of stone but these measure four centimetres thick, or 1.5 inches.
“We laminate marble panels to make a block,” says Toronto sculptor Francisco Lostalo, Toronto Art Visions president and the main mover behind what he calls “the world’s first international sculpture symposium to use recycled marble.”
For the gathering, he removed 35 years of pollution-grime from the stone and cut the panels to smaller sizes before gluing them into blocks. Five artists from Canada and Costa Rica are to work outdoors in full public view on the building’s west side.
They are to create medium-sized sculptures and a five-panel painted mural, to be displayed at Leonardo Galleries, 133 Avenue Rd., as completed. The exhibition is to run until Sept. 4, with an opening reception Aug. 26, 6:30-9 p.m.
Next year, Lostalo plans an encore event with full-size panels and 18 artists from more than half a dozen countries.
Peepers
Banned
I don't like what I see so far. The replacement tiles - in my opinion - should have been chalk white like the original. With these new panels the Tower will not stand out as much on the skyline. Like most new buildings - e.g. Bay Adelaide - it will blend into the sky.
nicetommy
Active Member
Here's a shot taken a few minutes ago (2:30PM), with the sun hitting it directly. The tiles still look a bit minty in appearance. The light minty colour hopefully won't be that noticeable once all the contrasting material (scaffolding, old tiles etc) is taken away.
Traynor
Senior Member
I don't think "Minty" is the technical name for that colour, I think it's "Toothpasty White"! It looks like Crest toothpaste.
LOL
LOL
Rowe
Active Member
^ Mmm minty fresh!
visualpixel
New Member
Given that that corner of scaffolding has been lowered, is the dark corner section installed/visible?
raclll
Active Member
Are we seeing the vertical separation between the panels or the support cables for the scaffolding?
Traynor
Senior Member
I sampled the colours from nicetommy's picture above and this is the result.
(I sampled the newest whitest of the old marble panels I could find and the best of the best of the new section)
(I sampled the newest whitest of the old marble panels I could find and the best of the best of the new section)
Traynor
Senior Member
A little of both. The vertical metal tracks for the window washers will now be a lot more visible.
caltrane74
Senior Member
As someone mentioned this new design is gonna be much cleaner.. the glass cladding is much larger than the orginal marble pieces. Therefore the building's design will appear more smooth, more modern, and far less busy than it did previously.
Tulse
Senior Member
I also wonder if it will be much easier to keep physically clean -- the marble seems to have stained and the individual panels have aged inconsistently.