Ebook: Concrete Toronto: a Guide to Concrete Architecture from the Fifties to the Seventies

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Prelude; Foreword; Guidebook; Introduction; Downtown; Infrastructure; The Modern Suburbs; Beyond Toronto; Building with Concrete; Afterword.;Toronto is a concrete city. From international landmarks to civic buildings to cultural institutions to metropolitan infrastructure and the single-family home, reminders of the era of 'brutalist' architecture surround Torontonians. But for how long? As architectural fashion has shifted to the glass-and-steel neomodernism of today, these concrete structures have been increasingly ignored - and in some cases, demolished. Concrete Toronto takes readers on a guided tour of Toronto's concrete architecture. Editors Michael McClelland and Graeme Stewart have assembled a diverse group of industry expe.