#Fort Book

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Also this impressive building was designed by Warner Burns Toan & Lunde Architects (together with Mathers & Haldenby): the Robarts Library, which due to its fortress-like character is often called “Fort Book”. With its triangular cantilevered spike and projecting elements on the sides, it also bears some resemblance to a turkey. In any case, a striking example of North American brutalism…

Mathers & Haldenby / Warner Burns Toan & Lunde Architects: Robarts Research Library, Toronto, Canada, 1968–1973 

 https://www.sosbrutalism.org/cms/15892353

Photos: stu_spivack_2008 (CC BY-SA 2.0) / A J Butler_2010 (CC BY 3.0) / Sergei Mutovkin_2001 (CC BY 2.0)

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