e.d. stone did two massive marble clad towers in climates that did not at all cooperate with his designs - toronto's FCP and chicago's aon center. aon center already had all of it's marble replaced with white granite back in the early 90s, preserving the stone masonry heaviness of the design, but also loosing some of the sheen and polish of the original marble. this FCP reclad sounds like it's going the other direction, preserving the sheen with the new white glass, but loosing the masonry heaviness. it will be interesting to see how this turns out, and to compare and contrast it with aon's reclad job years ago.
however it turns out, it's welcome news as the original marble on FCP is in really bad shape.
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Last edited by Steely Dan; Sep 24, 2009 at 4:55 PM.
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