20240202. Modernist stairs versus brutalist stairs. Can you guess the wheres of these two sets of stairs?
Tag Archives: stairwell
20201013. The brutalist parallel triangle wedge-shaped parkade exit stairwell.
20200921. Fire in the House.
20191220. The anatomy of a fire exit stairwell.
20190827. None of the light is pointing at me.
20190614. Staring straight down a square stairwell.
20180705. Davisville pentagonal stairwell. Minimal Aesthetic 129.
20180518. The oblong spirals of a concrete stairwell at the University of Toronto Scarborough Andrews Building.
Inverted scissor switch stairwell.
A most unusual enclosed external building staircase.
20140422. Precast Concrete Stairwell Wall. U of T Medical Sciences Building, Minimal Aesthetic 110.
20160831. Downside-up Deloitte stairway. Minimal Aesthetic 98.
20160304. The anatomy of a fire exit stairwell.
20160111. A matrix of scaffolding floats above the stairs in Toronto’s Union Station Great Hall.
20150322. Sideways Stairwell and Sconces on a Concrete Campus. Minimal Aesthetic 50.
20150321. The oblong spirals of a concrete stairwell at the University of Toronto Scarborough Campus Andrews Building.
The Andrews Building containing these stairwells was designed by the Australian architect John Andrews in 1965 who later went on to design the CN Tower.
Note the raw concrete (beton brut) look furnished by the wood forms in which the concrete was poured in place.
20150213. Pipes and handrails follow stairwell contours in Toronto’s TTC Pape Subway station.
20141219. Staring straight down the square stairwell.
20140826. Pointy-ended, vertically-suspended stairwell ductwork. Louis Stokes Wing, Cleveland Public Library main branch.
20140813. The protruding stairwell at the Art Gallery of Ontario, a Frank Gehry redesign. Minimal Aesthetic 37.
20140724. Lights and stairwells create patterns on the Essroc Cement Company silos in Toronto’s port lands.
As part of the re-naturalization of the mouth of the Don River, these silos will be decommissioned and made into a visual monument to our waterfront heritage and the company will move their operations to south of Commissioner’s Street just off Leslie St. If you have been down to the area recently you have probably noticed the new silos.
20140111. The stylish stairwells at Toronto’s Skywalk and future Union Pearson Express Station.
