The CN Tower SkyPod is nicknamed “Bud’s Bubble” in honour of Stewart \u0022Bud\u0022 Andrews.
After high school, Andrews enrolled as an architect’s apprentice, but returned to construction when the government eliminated the apprenticeship program. He worked for the Department of National Defence, planning residential facilities on army bases, then as an estimator and designer for construction companies in Ottawa and Toronto. He completed his first housing project at 23.
In 1963, he launched his own firm, Community Development Consultants, to shepherd large, complex development projects through the planning and approval stages. The Metro Centre project was a plan to redevelop a huge plot of land in downtown Toronto owned by CN and CP Rail. They wanted to build offices, apartments, a hotel, a transportation hub, and a trade and cultural complex on a 170-acre site then home to a sprawling railway yard.Article content
In its initial design, unveiled in December 1968, the CN Tower had three tubular legs which were connected to each other by enclosed bridges. But the developers were unhappy with the design and wanted something with a single stem, such as the Calgary Tower. He took his rough drawing to the team of architects and engineers designing the tower, and asked them to create “a piece of sculpture.” “As to the aesthetics of the tower, I related it to a plant. I said, ‘It has to be like a flower with a beautiful stem with a beautiful pod on it,’” Andrews later recalled.In his book, The Building of the CN Tower, author Richard Rohmer credited Andrews with being “central to conceptualizing and building” the iconic Toronto landmark.
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