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See-through structure: The building that encloses the limestone rockface was designed to blend with its surroundings and allow visitors to see the carvings as they came near
See-through structure: The building that encloses the limestone rockface was designed to blend with its surroundings and allow visitors to see the carvings as they came near

See-through structure: The building that encloses the limestone rockface was designed to blend with its surroundings and allow visitors to see the carvings as they came near

Date4/29/1985
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Original Toronto Star caption: See-through structure: The building that encloses the limestone rockface was designed to blend with its surroundings and allow visitors to see the carvings as they came near.
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0107612F
Toronto's towers: Three-dimensional maps, such as this one of downtown Toronto looking north from Union Station, allows planners see how developments will fit into their surroundings
Toronto's towers: Three-dimensional maps, such as this one of downtown Toronto looking north from Union Station, allows planners see how developments will fit into their surroundings
8/15/1986
Cold stone wall encloses the Renfrew county jail where Gibbons is held in custody
Cold stone wall encloses the Renfrew county jail where Gibbons is held in custody
12/15/1946
Landscape and its Architect: David Cram, partner with his father-in-law, Don Smith of Ellis-Don Ltd., In a luxury holiday resort on St. Lucia island, near Barbados, seems to be comfortably settled in paradise-like surroundings.
Landscape and its Architect: David Cram, partner with his father-in-law, Don Smith of Ellis-Don Ltd., In a luxury holiday resort on St. Lucia island, near Barbados, seems to be comfortably settled in paradise-like surroundings.
5/23/1990
Meticulous handcrafting: That's what keeps renowned architects and major developers knocking on Ed Cotton's door. His model for Fidinam Inc. of a 37-storey tower in Chicago's banking district involved sculpting to scale elaborate 90-year-old carvings on its first three floors.
Meticulous handcrafting: That's what keeps renowned architects and major developers knocking on Ed Cotton's door. His model for Fidinam Inc. of a 37-storey tower in Chicago's banking district involved sculpting to scale elaborate 90-year-old carvings on its first three floors.
11/8/1983
Taylor library: The 'appropriate and polite' building, upper left, was picked mostly for the way it fits in with its surroundings
Taylor library: The 'appropriate and polite' building, upper left, was picked mostly for the way it fits in with its surroundings
19 March 1986
Greeting a relative who has arrived safely and passed through immigration controls is a relief for some Canadian residents. Some visitors never get tot see their friends before being sent back
Greeting a relative who has arrived safely and passed through immigration controls is a relief for some Canadian residents. Some visitors never get tot see their friends before being sent back
11/29/1974
A mother and baby koala sit snuggly in a keeper's hands at the Lone Pine sanctuary near Brisbane, one of the few places in the world where visitors can not only see but hold the cuddly creatures
A mother and baby koala sit snuggly in a keeper's hands at the Lone Pine sanctuary near Brisbane, one of the few places in the world where visitors can not only see but hold the cuddly creatures
2/14/1974
Bill Dendy: Author and architectural historian with relief carvings outside post office building on Bay St.
Bill Dendy: Author and architectural historian with relief carvings outside post office building on Bay St.
6/29/1987
Doomed home: The director of the Armstrong Nursing Home fears that some of its 27 patients may die because they will be uprooted and moved to strange surroundings when the home closes
Doomed home: The director of the Armstrong Nursing Home fears that some of its 27 patients may die because they will be uprooted and moved to strange surroundings when the home closes
12/2/1981
Exquisite work Stanley Hill of the Six Nations reserve of Brantford, artist whose bone carvings are on exhibit at the Christel Galleries of Fine Art, (...)
Exquisite work Stanley Hill of the Six Nations reserve of Brantford, artist whose bone carvings are on exhibit at the Christel Galleries of Fine Art, (...)
4/8/1981
Text in varied font type, framed with a line border. Small illustration of maker's mark or shie ...
Wood fibro carvings: catalogue no. 9, section no. 1
Approximately 1900s
Eskimo hunters chisel soapstone carvings representing their northern life
Eskimo hunters chisel soapstone carvings representing their northern life
9/28/1965