Concrete Toronto looks at Toronto's concrete architectural heritage: Toronto is a concrete city. International landmarks, civic buildings, cultural institutions, metropolitan infrastructure and housing from high-rise to the single-family home: much of Toronto was born of an era of exposed concrete design. Underappreciated and misunderstood, Toronto’s concrete architecture represents an exciting era of cultural investment and design innovation. Showcasing new and archival photos, drawings, interviews, articles and case studies, Concrete Toronto is a striking record of Toronto's concrete architectural heritage.

Concrete Toronto features contributions from the members of the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design at the University of Toronto: Paolo Scrivano, Mary Lou Lobsinger, George Baird, David J. Lieberman, Adrian Blackwell, Pina Petricone, Frederic Urban, Tom Bessai, Ted Kesik, David Bowick, Ian Chodikoff, Ivan Saleff George Kapelos and Larry Wayne Richards.

‘Concrete Toronto is a bold celebration of the city’s best structures, part guide book, part historical document, replete with archive imagery and contemporary musing on subjects like Uno Prii’s sculptural tower blocks and Viljo Revell’s City Hall.’
– Wallpaper*

‘This fat little volume argues forcefully and effectively for a fresh appreciation of Toronto’s built heritage in concrete ...  a rich and useful gathering of knowledge about an architectural topic that’s long needed such thorough treatment.’
– John Bentley Mays, Globe and Mail

'The editors succeed in their task of making the invisible visible, these concrete structures that are seen every single day in the city and which are taken completely for granted ... [Concrete Toronto] engenders a discussion of the intent, knowledge and ambition of previous generations of architects, offering guidance and perspective to architects practicing today.'
– Canadian Architect

Concrete Toronto is available in bookstores and through the publishers' website at http://www.chbooks.com.