photos 20220908. Vanier Community Church = City Church + Capital City Bikers Church. “Our services have a very relaxed feel, powerful ‘rock and roll’ music, and dynamic messages.” Image September 9, 2022 Vik
photos 20220907. Vaughan Road runs diagonally across Toronto’s street grid and close to Eglinton and Dufferin its buildings have unusual footprints making for some interesting apartment building massings. Image September 8, 2022 Vik
photos 20220906. St Aidan’s awesome Anglican Church. Burgess, McLean and MacPhadyen, Ottawa, 1965 (2nd of 2 – see 20220820). Image September 6, 2022 Vik
photos 20220905. Hopewell Court from behind the wall of the York Beltline Trail. Whenever I see a wall like this, I am reminded of Italian photographer Gabrielle Basilico (1944-2013). Image September 5, 2022 Vik
photos 20220826. The Sir Richard Scott Building uses panels of corduroy concrete giving it that fuzzy tactile look. This building also houses the main branch of the brutalist Ottawa Public Library. Image August 26, 2022 Vik
photos 20220824. Might as well make the windowless facade of an office building interesting. Martel Building, 1975, Ottawa. Image August 24, 2022 Vik
photos 20220822. The Star Trek porte-cochere (entrance canopy) at the Castilian Apartments (3311 Bathurst St). Image August 22, 2022 Vik
photos 20220820. St Aidan’s awesome Anglican Church. Burgess, McLean and MacPhadyen, Ottawa, 1965. Image August 20, 2022 Vik
photos 20220814. The stunning Forest Hills Condominium (Paul Ospolak, 1971, North York). Image August 12, 2022 Vik
photos 20220812. The City Centre Complex (Ashworth, Robbie, Vaughan & Williams, 1965) was a major intercity truck depot now revived with an influx of new local businesses. Image August 12, 2022 Vik
photos 20220811. The CIVIC Googie sign at this former pharmacy (1960) was recently restored. Originally, it was illuminated with rotating letters and the palindrome could be read from any angle. Image August 11, 2022 Vik
photos 20220810. Paroisse St-Rémi is a mid-century expressionist church especially from the sky. Image August 10, 2022 Vik
photos 20220809. Horizontally-lined balconies against the vertically-lined wall at 30 Cartier St. Perhaps the first building occupied by Cartier Place Suite Hotel who have since expanded into the next building to the west. Image August 9, 2022 Vik
photos 20220805. Rideauview Bible Chapel (Watson and Weigand, 1967), an asymmetrical nondenominational A-frame. Image August 6, 2022 Vik
photos 20220804. A lamp on the rear brick wall of Leslieville’s long demolished Woodgreen United Church. Image August 5, 2022 Vik
photos 20220730. Fine concrete lines at the Britannia at 415 Greenview Ave, Napean, Ottawa, 1976. Image July 30, 2022 Vik
photos 20220726. The circular Versaterm (formerly A.R. Mosher Centre, Schoeler & Heaton, 1974). Image July 28, 2022 Vik
photos 20220725. This Bell Canada exchange building was once a four storey streamlined art deco building (1937). It lost its top and gained three floors in the 1960s. Image July 28, 2022 Vik