Talkin' terrazzo tells of early Toronto retailers

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Archiseek / Canada / News / 2004 / December 3

When people study a building, they tend to look up, waaaay up. A good architourist knows that looking down you sometimes discover things that can speak volumes, too. The language may be one of strange geometric shapes -- the zigzags, ziggurats and half-circles of the art deco age -- or something more economical, like a quick numeric reaffirmation of a building's address. But if you're lucky, it'll be plain ol' English.

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