Hamilton Lincoln Alexander Hall | 59.31m | 15s | Knightstone | Diamond Schmitt

Oddly Oaktree said:
I have mixed feelings on Brutalism... I know there are good examples, like the Montreal Metro, but all too often I think it's spoiled by the massively car-centric era in which it was popularized—add to that it's depiction in media post-Clockwork Orange, and it's really become the defacto style of Fascist Parking Garages! 🙃
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Brutalism has little to nothing to do with fascist regimes. It was embraced by socialism, beginning with UK socialists in the 1950's and so on. Fascist regimes concentrated on rationalism and some revival of Roman classical styles.
 
Chris R. said:
Made a trip to the Dundas Transfer station today, and stopped by. Very much still beneath grade, deeper than I expected, this picture is looking east from Traymore:
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Travelling along Main Street it's hard to overstate how huge this project looks to be. It takes a massive amount of Main St frontage and the overhead sidewalk cover makes this looks absolutely massive. Still trying to get the up to date architectural plans from city staff. Wish there was a central page with all that info and documents like every other city in the area...
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Pretty sure the west side (not in view) is basically at grade level, no?
 
To throw my 2 cents in regarding McMaster, the brutalism is actually quite nice close up. I think the mechanical floors on the top that are just clad in metal really bring the whole thing down and it would be nice to see those replaced with something slighly more attractive in the future.
 
As promised. Starting work on the 2nd floor already this morning.

From the west:
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And the east:
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I really cant find any info on who are the lead contractors and their consultants on this job. Could somebody help me out?
 
Pulkvedis Pods said:
Brutalism has little to nothing to do with fascist regimes. It was embraced by socialism, beginning with UK socialists in the 1950's and so on. Fascist regimes concentrated on rationalism and some revival of Roman classical styles.
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You're not wrong! It truly didn't' initially have anything to do with fascism in actual reality. But if a film is set in a fascist future, what it's defacto architectural style? Interestingly, the reason for this is because Kubrick used the architecture of those very same UK socialists to depict the futurism of A Clockwork Orange, and overtime this led other filmmakers to do the same as a shorthand for symbolizing fascist futurism. So even though it didn't actually even exist at the time of the fascists that built in a classical revival style, the style ultimately became associated with fascism in mainstream culture solely through its symbolic meaning in post-modern media depictions.

Incidentally, more often than not, I actually quite like brutalism, it just often tends to find itself on terrible buildings! ...And by terrible, I mean the car-centric urban renewal of the school of Robert Moses!
 
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