This trip so far had been a very informative one, in terms of the material my group has been assigned. There was an abundance of concrete at many of the sites that we visited.
The Nolition hotel was contemporary and very beautiful. It had a simplistic style, that was paired with rich pieces. one of the first materials that I noticed were the floors, that I later learned was a terrazzo mixture that was tinted a red auburn color and later polished.
I was attracted to the overall feel of the hotel, mixed with raw natural material along with chemically altered ones like the stainless steel elevator doors.
The variations of concrete that was presented in that confined lobby was unexpected. There were at least three types of concrete in different forms around the space.
– The first was the floors that were tinted and polished terrazzo
– There was a raw concrete mixture poured into a long rectangular caste to created what looked like a supporting beam.
I found this piece of concrete compelling because of its color. The under color was a beige/gray color and it look like it had a reddish orange rust like color in patches on each side of the concrete. ‘
– The other source of concrete that we came across was a concrete mixture with larger pieces of aggregate. It was a wall that separated the lobby and the restaurant. The interesting features of the wall was its shape and the construction of it. 
By looking at the aggregate I noticed that there were a few types of stone used to make up the triangular prism of a wall. There was a slightly polished finished on the surface of the wall, making it smooth to the touch.
I enjoyed the Spirone west water gallery. I learned about the concrete that was used on the walls. There were holes on the surface of the concrete, I later learned that the wholes was a result of the concrete being poured over the parallel metal poles to give structure to the wall. Those wholes can be filled or left open just like they were at the gallery.
