The Breithaupt Block Phase III | 11 fl | U/C

[KevinT]

I have to say it's the old factory building that brings this entire project together. The new buildings themselves are more or less forgettable, but having that historic building as an anchor (with a very beautiful interior) makes this work.

I still remember the smell of that corner riding by on an orange and cream GM 'New Look' Kitchener Transit bus with its slider windows open on a hot summer day. (Not good, but the Labatt's corner in Waterloo was often worse.) Pretty sure the factory was Becker's Lay-Tech at that time, with virtually no windows, a clock set in the brick wall on the Moore / King corner, and the sharp hiss of an air release every minute or so, presumably from a press mold. Childhood memories are always the most vivid...