Building a career Joseph Storey

chatham city hall, 1975

joe storey brought level of design , technical excellence consistent not landmark buildings, elementary , secondary schools, churches, band shells, senior citizen residences, industrial buildings, , storey’s favourite challenge, single family home. scores of modest ingeniously-planned , executed residences dot neighbourhoods of chatham. examples of work can found in windsor (the energy conversion plant, university of windsor), london (brescia university college), sarnia (ymca) , in many other small towns in southwestern ontario.

although storey practised architecture out of spotlight of toronto, work innovative , progressive. design federal post office building (1955) featured first use of curtain wall in ontario. 1 of storey’s more interesting unbuilt projects of career design conversion of 4 abandoned sugar beet silos on industrial lands apartments. idea , search investors carried on number of years. value of recycling our industrial heritage known today, silos unfortunately destroyed after storey’s death.