I wondered how masons were managing to clad new buildings so quickly, especially on cold winter days. A friend told me about fake brick panels. Today I saw some close-up, parked by the road, waiting for the crane.
Toronto loves the brick look. Most of the city is made of bricks. Even though our materials now are chipboard, concrete, aluminum and glass, we like to pretend. It’s called skeuomorphism (faking real stuff) and it goes back at least to ancient Egypt, where stone columns were carved to look like the bundled reed poles that came first.