20220904. Thistledown Collegiate Institute, 1957.
Tag Archives: mid-century modern
20220820. St Aidan’s awesome Anglican Church. Burgess, McLean and MacPhadyen, Ottawa, 1965.
20220811. The CIVIC Googie sign at this former pharmacy (1960) was recently restored. Originally, it was illuminated with rotating letters and the palindrome could be read from any angle.
20220810. Paroisse St-Rémi is a mid-century expressionist church especially from the sky.
20220724. The St. John Henry Newman Catholic High School chapel has an impressive facade of brick, stone and copper.
20220712. Wexford Presbyterian Church wears a crown of 12 triangular dormers.
20220704. Iroquios Restaurant (now Carousel Cafe) was built when Centre Island Park was created. Master planning started in 1956.
20220702. The church with the long pointy hat. First Unitarian Congregation of Ottawa (1967).
20220628. Jim Strut’s Trinity United Church is said to represent Noah’s Ark, with the high copper roof, the pointed structure at the south end simulating the bow and the interior laminated redwood pillars representing the spars.
20220627. The shiny Parkdale Medical Tower and its decaying parking garage. Sadly, there is a proposal to tear it down.
20220626. The Ottawa Church of God in profile.
20220624. Pinecrest Public School features two concentric circles of zig zag roof. Craig Madill Abram & Ingleson, 1961.
20220622. Enter the First Unitarian Congregation of Ottawa – built in 1967 for $45,000.
20220607. The dodecagon pavilion at Corvette Junior Public School (Jerome Markson, 1954).
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.
20220530. The googie ice cream bar (@tomsdairyfreeze, The Queensway, 1969). Googie architecture (AKA expressionist, mid-century modern, space age, populuxe, doo wop) originated in 1930s Los Angeles and features curvilinear geometric shapes and upswept roofs.
20220404. The Canadian Tire with the Googie gas bar (Rexdale, 1968, see image 20220308) features novel brick work.
20220321. Don’t you just love that corduroy concrete in the morning sun?
20220319. The amazing Mount Olive Seventh-day Adventist Church with its high pitch curved roof (rear).
20220318. The amazing Mount Olive Seventh-day Adventist Church with its curved and spiked concave gable (front).
20220309. Rexdale Mall was built in 1956, enclosed in 1972, demolished in 2004 yet the former Zellars/Towers structure survives as the Fresh Value grocery store and a bunch of small businesses – a true Remnant of Mid-Century Toronto.
20220308. The googie gas bar (Canadian Tire, Rexdale, 1968). Googie architecture can also be called expressionist, mid-century modern, space age, Populuxe and Doo Wop and originates at the defunct Googies Coffee Shop in Hollywood. The style features curvilinear geometric shapes and upswept roofs.
20211014. The new Davisville Junior Public School is a far cry from the original. Frankly speaking, the only positive thing I can say about this new school is that it is new.
20210813. Modern August #13. Castle Frank Station
