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20170714. Colonel By Hall, the Brutalist home of University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Engineering.
20170713. The domes of the City of Toronto’s F.J. Horgan Water Treatment Plant.
The early ancestors of Star Wars All Terrain Scout Transports (AT_ST) or Scout Walkers worked the railway lines of Earth lifting double leaf Bascule bridges.
20170711. The unparalleled simplicity of Mies van der Rohe’s Toronto-Dominion Centre is still evident today on its 50th anniversary.
20170711. Having lunch at the foot of a massive monolithic Mies masterpiece on its 50th anniversary.
20170710. The 1910 S.F. Bowser and Company Factory, producer of oil tanks, has Edwardian Classical features including a flat roof, less ornate corbelled brickwork and piers, and flat-headed windows (39 Mowat Avenue).
20170709. A massive Mammoet self-propelled modular transport (with three 6 axle line modules) supports the new Wilkinson Eyre-designed Eaton Centre pedestrian bridge as it is fastened in place.
20170708. Ottawa’s Place Bell Parkade, a striking array of slits and slats.
20170708. A round light in a perforated square frame. Minimal Aesthetic 116. Can you guess which Ontario VIA Rail train station this is in?
20170707. The quintessentially modern entrance at the Queen Elizabeth building.
The long buildings of Mowat Avenue in Liberty Village.
Billboards and industrial built heritage in Liberty Village.
The massive King West Life Condominiums of Liberty Village.
20170703. Shadows of trench-spanning struts at the Strachan Avenue railway underpass.
20170702. Ottawa’s 1966 modern precast concrete Burnside Building.
The very impressive open air pavilion at Toronto’s new Trillium Park.
20170630. Underneath a three-dimensional trillium.
20170629. An ellipsoid at sunset created by the triodetic-domed Cinesphere and it reflection.
20170628. The contrast between 19th century architecture and contemporary condo tower at 582 Sherbourne. Featured in Toronto Architecture: A City Guide.
20170627. Climbing up to the One Spadina Design Studio where only gestures can explain the dramatic ceiling.
As a stormy sky recedes, cedar board formed concrete dries above Ottawa’s Canadian War Museum.
20170626. A view of the photographer and the photographed on Ottawa’s Rideau River at the Adàwe crossing.
20170625. Bay Adelaide Centre West wide angle.
