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Stormer · #**3221** Posted **Jun 22, 2015, 9:13 PM**

The technical, historical name for rough hewn stone is "shoddy stone". the name seems to have fallen out of favour.

Treesplease · #**3222** Posted **Jun 22, 2015, 10:47 PM**

Is the Sears at cornwall exterior tyndall stone (shoddy or rough)?. I haven't looked at it that close but always assumed it was some kind of split face cidercrete product? ie. man made.

Stormer · #**3223** Posted **Jun 22, 2015, 11:09 PM**

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Originally Posted by Treesplease

Is the Sears at cornwall exterior tyndall stone (shoddy or rough)?. I haven't looked at it that close but always assumed it was some kind of split face cidercrete product? ie. man made.

Its shoddy. (I love that word). You can see the accent strip of smooth Tyndall stone in this shot. Also the main entrance on Scarth is smooth. I am assuming smooth is costlier.

https://www.google.ca/maps/@50.45218...2!8i6656?hl=en

Chorduroy · #**3224** Posted **Jun 23, 2015, 2:11 PM**

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Originally Posted by Stormer

Its shoddy. (I love that word). You can see the accent strip of smooth Tyndall stone in this shot. Also the main entrance on Scarth is smooth. I am assuming smooth is costlier.

https://www.google.ca/maps/@50.45218...2!8i6656?hl=en

Ugh ... that is terrible. The stone is nice, but street interaction, not so much.

HomerSPC · #**3225** Posted **Jun 23, 2015, 2:40 PM**

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Originally Posted by Stormer

Its shoddy. (I love that word). You can see the accent strip of smooth Tyndall stone in this shot. Also the main entrance on Scarth is smooth. I am assuming smooth is costlier.

https://www.google.ca/maps/@50.45218...2!8i6656?hl=en

I really don't have a problem with the rough stone. I feel having the entire thing built of the smooth would look worse actually.

Stormer · #**3226** Posted **Jun 23, 2015, 2:55 PM**

Googling it, I see the rough Tyndall is often used in modern looking buildings as a contrast. Below is a particularly nice example in Winnipeg. I don't think the Mosaic Tyndall is quite as nice as that, but we will see how it turns out.

Crisis · #**3227** Posted **Jun 23, 2015, 8:45 PM**

Tyndalstone is great as an accent and in split face (shoddy) form can look very good in large quantities. The problem comes when using large quantities of sawn (smooth) tyndalstone. In my opinion, too much sawn tyndalstone just provides a massive monolithic look and one loses the effect of the beautiful stone.

Look at the Sturdy Stone Centre in Saskatoon as an example. I'd lived in the city for a couple of years before I took a close enough look at it to realize that it is completely clad in tyndalstone. Looking from afar, I'd always just assumed it was stucco. (I'd post a photo, but haven't bothered to set up a site to host photos that I could post to here.)

North_Regina_Boy · #**3228** Posted **Jun 23, 2015, 9:25 PM**

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Originally Posted by Crisis

Tyndalstone is great as an accent and in split face (shoddy) form can look very good in large quantities. The problem comes when using large quantities of sawn (smooth) tyndalstone. In my opinion, too much sawn tyndalstone just provides a massive monolithic look and one loses the effect of the beautiful stone.

Look at the Sturdy Stone Centre in Saskatoon as an example. I'd lived in the city for a couple of years before I took a close enough look at it to realize that it is completely clad in tyndalstone. Looking from afar, I'd always just assumed it was stucco. (I'd post a photo, but haven't bothered to set up a site to host photos that I could post to here.)

Here you go (Not my image, found on google)...

Draftsman · #**3229** Posted **Jun 24, 2015, 12:55 AM**

Other Regina buildings adorned with Tyndall stone: Old Post Office/Old City Hall; Saskatchewan Legislative Building; First Nations University of Canada; the former Credit Foncier Building, later known as Canadian Western Bank; T C Douglas Building; the Dominion/Federal Government Building (Victoria & Scarth); Royal Saskatchewan Museum; as well as, to a lesser degree, several other buildings.

HomerSPC · #**3230** Posted **Jun 24, 2015, 2:22 PM**

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Originally Posted by Draftsman

Other Regina buildings adorned with Tyndall stone: Old Post Office/Old City Hall; Saskatchewan Legislative Building; First Nations University of Canada; the former Credit Foncier Building, later known as Canadian Western Bank; T C Douglas Building; the Dominion/Federal Government Building (Victoria & Scarth); Royal Saskatchewan Museum; as well as, to a lesser degree, several other buildings.

How many of them are primarily smooth stone exteriors?

Stormer · #**3231** Posted **Jun 24, 2015, 2:41 PM**

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Originally Posted by HomerSPC

How many of them are primarily smooth stone exteriors?

All of the listed ones.

Migs · #**3232** Posted **Jul 3, 2015, 8:17 PM**

Rig mats are being laid down, must mean the roof is going up
soon.

https://twitter.com/yqrstadium/statu...27225892728832

SkydivePilot · #**3233** Posted **Jul 3, 2015, 11:07 PM**

Yesterday, I drove by and noticed that on the east side, there was elevated/packed gravel along Elphinstone St. Huh.

Migs · #**3234** Posted **Jul 4, 2015, 8:15 PM**

Regina stadium

via @YQRstadium

Migs · #**3235** Posted **Jul 6, 2015, 5:05 PM**

First tower crane is coming down today.

Stormer · #**3236** Posted **Jul 6, 2015, 5:28 PM**

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Originally Posted by SkydivePilot

Yesterday, I drove by and noticed that on the east side, there was elevated/packed gravel along Elphinstone St. Huh.

Looks like a base for mobile cranes for the roof and pre-cast stands.

Any sign of roof trusses yet?

Hopefully we don't end up like IGF where the main concourse "street" level is way higher than the street:

Migs · #**3237** Posted **Jul 6, 2015, 6:08 PM**

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Originally Posted by Stormer

Looks like a base for mobile cranes for the roof and pre-cast stands.

Any sign of roof trusses yet?

Hopefully we don't end up like IGF where the main concourse "street" level is way higher than the street:

Look were the doors are in the 4th pick, they are at grade.

https://twitter.com/yqrstadium/statu...27225892728832

SkydivePilot · #**3238** Posted **Jul 6, 2015, 6:21 PM**

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Originally Posted by Migs

First tower crane is coming down today.

The short one on the east side. That was quick!

Stormer · #**3239** Posted **Jul 6, 2015, 9:53 PM**

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Originally Posted by Migs

Look were the doors are in the 4th pick, they are at grade.

https://twitter.com/yqrstadium/statu...27225892728832

So all that fill has to come out? I see a door that is below the fill/rig mats

blueandgoldguy · #**3240** Posted **Jul 6, 2015, 11:23 PM**

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Originally Posted by Stormer

Looks like a base for mobile cranes for the roof and pre-cast stands.

Any sign of roof trusses yet?

Hopefully we don't end up like IGF where the main concourse "street" level is way higher than the street:

Shouldn't have to worry about that unless the water table at new Mosaic is substantially high as it is at IGF.