Masonry Magazine February 1976 Page. 9
MILTON PUBLIC LIBRARY
Milton, Ontario
Architects: Brook-Carruthers-Shaw
Consulting Structural Engineers: John Maryon & Partners Ltd.
Masonry Contractor: Victor Masonry
General Contractor: Thurlow & Sanderson Ltd.
Jury Comment: This is a delightful public building, well sited and beautifully landscaped. An Airy, spacial feeling is achieved through good sound planning and thoughtful use of levels, views and skylighting. The overall interior detailing was found to be somewhat inconsistent with the general pleasant effect. The excellent use of masonry materials was accompanied by first class workmanship.
Jury Comment: The Jury found this development refreshing in its orderliness, especially in view of the normal visual chaos that one associates with this type of complex. Industrial and commercial developments of this kind have notoriously low budgets. In this case, the architects, with the client, have managed to direct some of the budget for environmental design through repetition of building form and thoughtful landscaping.
The result is a pleasant, economically designed, humanly scaled complex.
The architects have successfully emphasized each tenant's place of work, by stepping the entry facade. The repeat of small-scaled facades generates an overall order for the central landscaped parking area.
Textured (split ribbed) blocflk is often misused. Here we see an appropriate use of this material, built with good workmanship resulting in a worthwhile product.
This building demonstrates how good design can be applied to difficult and often neglected commercial projects.
ASHWARREN INDUSTRIAL PARK
Downsview, Ontario
Architects: Sirlin & Giller
Consulting Structural Engineers: Marshall Cohen Consulting Engineers Ltd.
Masonry Contractors: Walis Bricklaying Company
General Contractors: Ashwarren Industrial Park
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SHAW FESTIVAL THEATRE
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario
Architects: The Thom Partnership
Consulting Structural Engineers: M. S. Yolles & Partners Ltd.
Masonry Contractors: Abe Dick Masonry Ltd.
General Contractors: Stewart & Hinan Contractors
Jury Comment: A sympathetic solution to a most difficult problem of achieving human scale in a rural setting, due to the necessarily imposing height and bulk of the theatre stage loft.
There has been most careful attention given to the selection and use of natural materials; texture, colour, form and furnishing further enhanced by excellent landscaping. All this has resulted in a building of great warmth, intimacy and friendliness.
The choice and use of warm, textured brick, executed with excellent workmanship and detailing, was just right for this beautiful building.
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