20220707. The R.H. Coats building (Ogilvie and Hogg, 1976, Tunney’s Pasture, Ottawa) has a heavy duty concrete exterior.
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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.
20220321. Don’t you just love that corduroy concrete in the morning sun?
20220312. The Toronto Marine Safety School sits in the shadow of brutalism at the Westin Harbour Castle.
20220303. This pedestrian bridge over Mimico Creek casts a permanent shadow of rust.
20220301. Living in Brutalism.
20220228. Brutalist OISE. Kenneth R. Cooper, 1969.
20220213. Now that’s an entrance canopy!
