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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
    Usage Rights Copyright (Learn More)
    Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
    Object 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
    Beaty, Keith
    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
    Toronto Star (Firm)
    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.
    Brennan, Pat
    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.
    Brennan, Pat
    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
    Dunlop, Al
    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
    Darrell, Dick
    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
    Bezant, Graham
    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.
    Spremo, Boris
    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
    Bock, Tony
    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, (...)
    Dunlop, Al
    4/8/1981
    Eskimo hunters chisel soapstone carvings representing their northern life
    Eskimo hunters chisel soapstone carvings representing their northern life
    Darrell, Dick
    9/28/1965
    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
    John Walter & Sons
    Approximately 1900s