20220824. Might as well make the windowless facade of an office building interesting. Martel Building, 1975, Ottawa.
Tag Archives: concrete
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.
20220707. The R.H. Coats building (Ogilvie and Hogg, 1976, Tunney’s Pasture, Ottawa) has a heavy duty concrete exterior.
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.
20220621. The 1090 Ambleside Drive parking garage with striated concrete and matching window bars.
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!
20220609. The triangular balconies on the square building on the triangular lot.
20220608. Concrete-clad cubicle container complex on Consumers Rd.
20220514. Mid-century modern mixed-use. An apartment tower sits above a parking garage and bus terminal.
20220513. An aerial view of the Alan Brown building reveals a little park terrace with grass and children’s playground.
20220510. Octogon X. Minimal Aesthetic 89.
20220502. Concrete detailing can add so much to a building. Here, 10 Prue Ave uses precast corduroy concrete panels on the balconies and under the windows.
20220427. Concrete-clad campus entrance at Monsignor Fraser College – Annex Campus.
20220420. The contrasting textures of concrete at Kelly Library.
20220419. Concrete Envelope. Minimal Aesthetic #172.
20220418. Craft shops occupy the restored and historic Snider Flour Mill silos (1950) in St. Jacobs, Ontario.
20220416. Corrugated Trapezoid.
20220410. The overlapping window frames of Ottawa’s Place Vanier towers (1971).
20220405. A little horizontal holds its own against the vertical. Minimal Aesthetic #169.
20220323. C is for curved and cylindrical and concrete. Minimal Aesthetic #168.
