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New Jarvis Street entrance
Sears Canada Headquarters
222 Jarvis Street, Toronto, ON.
DESIGNER(S) Maxwell Miller
CONSTRUCTED 1971
Rehabilitation: 2002 by WZMH
“More like an armoury (or a thick-skinned dinosaur, for that matter) than an office building, its outward treatment, along with its oppressive bulk, acts more to repulse people than draw them in. Alternately, it’s a remarkably well-executed building, and upon close examination one can appreciate the high level of craftsmanship in its construction and rigorously detailed features.”
-Jeff Hayes, “Sears Canada Headquarters,” Concrete Toronto: a guidebook to concrete architecture from the fifties to the seventies, M. McClelland, ed. (Toronto, Coach House Books, 2007) 122.
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