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Concrete's Liberating Allure

my memory of "life" inside a brutalist building is that it stinks....literally.
the life science centre at dal u. in halifax is concrete inside and out and was always always dank and musty.
the same with place bonaventure in montreal. you can smell it before you enter it from gare central.
concrete tends to emit a distinctive and not pleasant odour.
 
egotrippin said:
I don't know, it reminds me more of that stack of boxes in the basement. You know the ones everyone has, you keep meaning to sort through it, but instead it haphazardly continues to pile up. The above building is the architectural expression of that. A mess.
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Did you know what building that was when you made that post?
 
lawsond said:
my memory of "life" inside a brutalist building is that it stinks....literally.
the life science centre at dal u. in halifax is concrete inside and out and was always always dank and musty.
the same with place bonaventure in montreal. you can smell it before you enter it from gare central.
concrete tends to emit a distinctive and not pleasant odour.
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I dunno, I can't help thinking of 70s porn star bush when reading that post. To say nothing of the taste for it. Or against it...
 
I dunno, I can't help thinking of 70s porn star bush when reading that post. To say nothing of the taste for it. Or against it...
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well, the Life Sciences Centre was built in the '70s.
maybe everything from that era has a distinctive odour.
 
Well, better a good, honest dank mustiness than the rancid stench I got from that U of T admin building on Huron north of A+LD this past week...
 
I noticed this Brutalist house in Toronto on the Ontario Architecture site:



I'd like like to see this captivating dwelling in person. Does anyone know where in the city it's located?
 
From the inventory...

95 ARDWOLD GATE Residential 22 Architectural House for Richard G.W. Mauran; 1968, Taivo Kapsi, architect; L. Maimets and J. Sepp, structural engineers -adopted by City Council on February 24 and 25, 1992

Just north of Spadina House.
 
what a gorgeous house...

its a great example of how beautiful real concrete can be when it ages....

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