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Fresno Farmers’ Market: Ornamental Concrete Tiles – Photographs

01/08/1984

Construction Process

Working on the concrete floor; the blue tiles were prefabricated and were dropped into the slab, the same afternoon the slab was cast.

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Construction Innovation 1 Items

Fresno Farmers' Market: Ornamental concrete tiles 1984

Work of Art for Project, Concrete Tilework

6.000-square-foot ornamental concrete slab with special hand made fish-tail tiles. Each tile is about 15 inches long and 6 inches wide, in thin dense concrete about 1/2 inch thick. made by precasting 1/2" thick light blue fishtail tiles, cast on ...

References

Scientific Research 1 Items

Ornament and Function as Products of Unfolding

Ornament arises as part of the design process, when a person is making and seeks to embellish this "something" while making it. It arises as a result of the latent centers in the uncompleted thing requiring still more centers, requiring ...

Projects 1 Items

Farmers' Market 1982 to 1985

North Blackstone Avenue and West Shaw Avenue, Fresno, CA, U.S.A.

Commercial, Realized , Construction completed in 1985

A trellised structure to form the main spine for the weekly Farmer's open air market in Fresno, with 6,000 square foot floor area. Redwood arched trusses, on concrete block piers, 120 feet long, and 40 feet wide. Floor of grey ...