20220824. Might as well make the windowless facade of an office building interesting. Martel Building, 1975, Ottawa.
Tag Archives: brutalist
20220730. Fine concrete lines at the Britannia at 415 Greenview Ave, Napean, Ottawa, 1976.
20220722. A corner of the finely detailed concrete Donald Summerville Olympic Pool at Woodbine Beach.
20220711. The Brooke Claxton Building (Building #9, Tunney’s Pasture federal government campus, 1964) is a classified federal heritage building designed in the “Modern International Style with aspects of Brutalism.”
20220707. The R.H. Coats building (Ogilvie and Hogg, 1976, Tunney’s Pasture, Ottawa) has a heavy duty concrete exterior.
20220630. The original NAC is far more impressive to me than its addition however contemporary.
20220629. A face among the stained concrete and wires at McEwan Terrace in Carlingwood, Lincoln Heights or Ambleside.
20220614. Concrete architecture is timeless. At once modern, contemporary and futuristic.
20220613. Entering the untouched part of the (National Arts Centre). I love concrete, especially the large aggregate stuff. Let’s spend some time in Ottawa, a city that has grown on me in the last few days of touring. Ottawa modernism rivals Toronto easily!
20220513. An aerial view of the Alan Brown building reveals a little park terrace with grass and children’s playground.
20220424. The guards of the Allan Brown building.
20220423. Reflections of sunlight from a neighbouring mirrored tower give Toronto Police 52 Division a festive look.
20220420. The contrasting textures of concrete at Kelly Library.
20220321. Don’t you just love that corduroy concrete in the morning sun?
20220312. The Toronto Marine Safety School sits in the shadow of brutalism at the Westin Harbour Castle.
20220301. Living in Brutalism.
20220228. Brutalist OISE. Kenneth R. Cooper, 1969.
20220203. The Brutalist entrance to York Woods Library before current renovations will bring a glass atrium to its north side.
20220104. Cool concrete-clad condo (1979).
20220101. Recess under surveillance. Minimal Aesthetic #163. Surveillance #4.
20211119. The beauty of coarse aggregate concrete #2.
20211118. The beauty of coarse aggregate concrete.
20211017. Boake’s Brutalist Bramalea Building (Crang & Boake, 1971).
20211015. The paneled brutalism of the Toronto District School Board Head Office (Mathers & Haldenby, 1970).
20211006. 720 Spadina Ave (Eugene Janiss, 1973) is a Brutalist mixed-use tower with an commercial base oriented perpendicularly to a residential tower which presents an almost blank face to the street.
