TheStar.com | GTA | Bay Street icon getting a facelift. First Canadian Place is going to have all the dirty stained marble on its facade replaced with white glass. $100M project.
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That kind of sucks. I loved how the bank had so much fucking money they clad an entire building in marble. Fucking marble!
5000 tonnes of marble! Apparently if the panels had been thicker they would be fine: http://www.nationalpost.com/m/story.html?id=2026286
I didn’t realize that the Aon Center in Chicago used to have the same Carrara marble. They replaced it with white granite in the early ’90s after the marble started falling off.