Toronto Telus House - 25 York Street | 136.24m | 30s | Menkes | Sweeny &Co

[smuncky]

Thanks for all of the updates. Is it me or are they using Doric columns in the Simcoe Street underpass, visible in the last pic?

i think thats just the cap of the column.

 

[Urban Shocker]

It appears to be a bastardized version of Doric: rising directly from the stylobate without a base, as the Greeks did it - yet unfluted, as the Romans did with their Tuscan take on Doric, though not as slender. Also it lacks visual tweaks that would make it elegant like the Parthenon.

 

[Edward Skira]

Thanks for all of the updates. Is it me or are they using Doric columns in the Simcoe Street underpass, visible in the last pic?

That's not Simcoe Street. Its York Street.

 

[3Dementia]

Doric schmoric... it's the same damn columns that ensure trains don't land on your head at Union. They are strong.

 

[Mystery White Boy]

It appears to be a bastardized version of Doric: rising directly from the stylobate without a base, as the Greeks did it - yet unfluted, as the Romans did with their Tuscan take on Doric, though not as slender. Also it lacks visual tweaks that would make it elegant like the Parthenon.

Stop using Layman's terms. Your vocabulary is pathetic.

 

[mysteryman]

The columns are not stylized but are just fattened up at the top to accomodate the additional rebar

 

[Urban Shocker]

Looks like a typically convex capital linking a Doric column to a grossly disproportionate abacas, to me.

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

Stop using Layman's terms. Your vocabulary is pathetic.

Just so you know, I believe Layman's terms refer to terminologies that an average person can understand.

AoD

 

[scarberiankhatru]

I think he knows that...

 

[Mystery White Boy]

Just so you know, I believe Layman's terms refer to terminologies that an average person can understand.

AoD

Exactly. I was kidding.

 

[CDL.TO]

Alvin, Alvin, Alvin...

 

[Hydrogen]

stylobate

Sound like a verb for designers of the elite world.

 

[adma]

Alvin, Alvin, Alvin...

Okay!

 

[Urban Shocker]

Naming things correctly helps when traversing unfamiliar architectural terrain.

 

[MisterF]

Stop using Layman's terms. Your vocabulary is pathetic.

The technical terms are pippypoos and doodads. The Romans liked those.