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[simply Dan]

Toronto has Bymark in a Mies pavilion, Montreal would have a …Starbucks!

 

[Urban Shocker]

In the early 1930s, Philip Johnson was influential in getting architectural firm Clauss & Daub a commission to design filling stations for Standard Oil, shown on this link, though I'm not sure if he was the one who designed them:

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA01/Lisle/30home/modern/modern.html

 

[adma]

In the early 1930s, Philip Johnson was influential in getting architectural firm Clauss & Daub a commission to design filling stations for Standard Oil, shown on this link, though I'm not sure if he was the one who designed them:

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA01/Lisle/30home/modern/modern.html

I'm not even sure if Johnson actually had his sights on architectural practice at this early date, or any time before his National Socialist pretty-boy worship interlude. So his endorsement of "International Style" station design would be purely generic, I suppose--if delightfully so, i.e. one of the earliest direct attempts to turn "International Style" into a marketable brand, care of none other than the original brand-maker himself.


As for the Bymark pavilion at TD, remember that it's not original to Mies' concept, but rather a conversion of what had been 80s/90s-installed food-court skylight space.

Incidentally, I'm sure I'm not the only one in the habit of reading the thread title as a cut-off "Full Metal Jacket" soundbite. (Come to think of it, there'd be something strangely aesthetically befitting to have one's car serviced here by scantily clad Papillon Soo Soo clones...)

 

[JohnWoolfrey]

They've finally decided on a community centre. Full story at OpenFIleMTL:

http://montreal.openfile.ca/en/blog/2011/construction-underway-transform-famed-nuns%E2%80%99-island-gas-station