20220724. The St. John Henry Newman Catholic High School chapel has an impressive facade of brick, stone and copper.
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20220721. The Personnel Records Centre (Building 18, Tunney’s Pasture federal government campus, 1965) still looks great but is apparently in poor health and demolition is likely.
20220719. The Geological Survey of Canada and Geomatics Canada buildings (Allward and Gouinlock, 1955) are handsome despite all the protruding air-conditioners.
20220714. The Chinese Presbyterian Church at 177 Beverley Street with its furry brick elevator shaft.
20220712. Wexford Presbyterian Church wears a crown of 12 triangular dormers.
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.”
20220708. The colourful Estonian Baptist Church on Broadview.
20220707. The R.H. Coats building (Ogilvie and Hogg, 1976, Tunney’s Pasture, Ottawa) has a heavy duty concrete exterior.
20220706. St. George Street is home to the modern mid-rise.
20220705. The beauty of rounded brick and narrow fenestration in the International Style. Carling Square, Little Italy or The Glebe or Centretown West, Ottawa, 1974.
20220704. Iroquios Restaurant (now Carousel Cafe) was built when Centre Island Park was created. Master planning started in 1956.
20220702. The church with the long pointy hat. First Unitarian Congregation of Ottawa (1967).
20220701. The Major-General George R. Pearkes Building, occupied by National Defence. Happy Canada Day!
20220629. A face among the stained concrete and wires at McEwan Terrace in Carlingwood, Lincoln Heights or Ambleside.
20220628. Jim Strut’s Trinity United Church is said to represent Noah’s Ark, with the high copper roof, the pointed structure at the south end simulating the bow and the interior laminated redwood pillars representing the spars.
20220627. The shiny Parkdale Medical Tower and its decaying parking garage. Sadly, there is a proposal to tear it down.
20220626. The Ottawa Church of God in profile.
20220624. Pinecrest Public School features two concentric circles of zig zag roof. Craig Madill Abram & Ingleson, 1961.
20220622. Enter the First Unitarian Congregation of Ottawa – built in 1967 for $45,000.
20220619. Vanier Hall, University of Ottawa, 1954.
20220611. Muscular Modernist Midrise.
20220609. The triangular balconies on the square building on the triangular lot.
20220607. The dodecagon pavilion at Corvette Junior Public School (Jerome Markson, 1954).
20220606. Harbourview Apartments, the curved modern highrise.
20220605. The Woodbine Acres Senior Housing Unit looks very much like a school.
