bonus features: goodbye historic concourse building, hello ernst & young tower
This post offers supplementary material for a recent Torontoist article , which you should read first before diving into this post. Mosaics by J.E.H. MacDonald on the arch of the entrance to the Concourse Building. Photo taken June 18, 2013. Whatever your opinion on the merits of facadism, it is a relief to know that the surviving pieces of J.E.H. MacDonald's work on the Concourse will live on in its successor. I wonder if anyone has approached Oxford Properties to include poetry in the foyer as the Concourse originally did. There are several approaches that could work: Restore the poetry that graced the Concourse in 1929. Add in appropriate verse from poets of that era who weren't represented in the Concourse. Assign current poets to provide fresh verse. Utilize poetry about Toronto.