20240813. Oakville I. Oakville’s Brutalist Oak Hill in profile.
Tag Archives: concrete
20240605. CN Tower XVI. What seems to be a wet tower with dry pixelated patches is really a wet tower with spot repairs done with a smooth finished concrete contrasting with the original texture.
20240131. The Canada Malt Co. (wasn’t it Canada Malting Co.?) silos are looking pretty good these days (J.S. Metcalf, 1928).
20230906. In memory of Raymond Moriyama, a deeply influencial architect, I present #Moriyama30 – 30 Toronto Area works by Moriyama in 30 days. #4 is the Ontario Science Centre (1969).
20221216. Brutalist Baycrest Hospital facade.
20221118. The Bathville Towers feature a tower and podium both shaped like parallelograms with one turned 35 degrees from the other resulting in interesting angles where the building meets the street.
20221117. The lines of the modernist Bathville Towers (1966) in North York.
20221030. The Canada Post Ottawa Mail Processing Plant (OMPP). D’Arcy Helmer, 1970.
20221027. Now that The Bay has left the Hudson’s Bay Centre, this terrible brutalism can be replaced.
20221019. Inside and outside Bemi’s Brutalist Bibliothèque (Ottawa Public Library main branch, George Bemi, 1973).
20220923. An industrial park office building with interesting precast coarse aggregate concrete panels that interact with matching window blinds.
20220922. This impressive 1974 John B Parkin concrete office tower will be demolished for a 62-storey @WZMHarchitects mixed use tower. It sits north of 488 University, another WZMH building whose concrete facade was lost.
20220920. Not only do the Ontario Power Building and the TTC Orde transformer substation have power in common, they look good together too.
20220915. The brutalist porte cochere. 145 Marlee Ave, 1973.
20220914. A reflection of 275 Slater Street (1968).
20220911. 220 Laurier Ave W uses lovely corduroy concrete precast panels apart from its ground floor entrance upgrade.
20220828. Queen Elizabeth Tower A in profile – one of the earliest condominium developments downtown (1975-78, Tridel). Do the bulges have bigger units?
20220827. Robarts Library has a buddy – the National Research Council Canada National Science Library. Shore Tilbe Henschek Irwin, 1974, Ottawa.
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.
20220824. Might as well make the windowless facade of an office building interesting. Martel Building, 1975, Ottawa.
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.
20220806. The Bathville Towers (1966) of North York.
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.
20220710. The Jeanne Mance building (modernist, international style, 1969) is Building #19 at the sprawling Tunney’s Pasture federal government campus.
