20220625. Selections of abstract glass tower reflections.
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20220624. Pinecrest Public School features two concentric circles of zig zag roof. Craig Madill Abram & Ingleson, 1961.
20220623. An abstract bronze sculpture by Charles Daudelin (1969) at the National Arts Centre. Anyone know what it’s called?
20220622. Enter the First Unitarian Congregation of Ottawa – built in 1967 for $45,000.
20220621. The 1090 Ambleside Drive parking garage with striated concrete and matching window bars.
20220620. The Belltown Dome is an experimental skating arena with a geodesic external structure in the shape of a half capsule with hemispherical ends.
20220619. Vanier Hall, University of Ottawa, 1954.
20220618. Friel Towers East. Craig and Kohler, 1975, Lower Town, Ottawa.
20220617. A modern addition to Almonte Old Town Hall through an antiquated smartphone lens.
20220616. Concrete corridors at the National Arts Centre.
20220615. Look up or look down, at the back of the NAC, it’s big pebble concrete all around.
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!
20220612. Balconies at the Bay Charles tower (at 57 Charles St) cast the perfect shadows resulting in diagonal stripes between them.
20220611. Muscular Modernist Midrise.
20220610. The remaining Inn on the Park building (1971) at Eglinton and Leslie stands in a half demolished state (from 2014).
20220609. The triangular balconies on the square building on the triangular lot.
20220608. Concrete-clad cubicle container complex on Consumers Rd.
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.
202020604. These days a lot of modern churches need protection from the elements. Ti Agia Maria & St Demiana Church.
20220603. The one-of-a-kind 1959 Church of Saint Demetrius the Great Martyr (Byzantine Ukrainian Catholic).
20220602. Tower Hill East (left, 1966) vs. Tower Hill West (1969) – both fully enclosed in balconies.
20220601. Coming upon an apartment building hexagon. June is Modernist Month featuring images from Toronto and Ottawa.
