20220824. Might as well make the windowless facade of an office building interesting. Martel Building, 1975, Ottawa.
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20220822. The Star Trek porte-cochere (entrance canopy) at the Castilian Apartments (3311 Bathurst St).
20220820. St Aidan’s awesome Anglican Church. Burgess, McLean and MacPhadyen, Ottawa, 1965.
20220814. The stunning Forest Hills Condominium (Paul Ospolak, 1971, North York).
20220812. The City Centre Complex (Ashworth, Robbie, Vaughan & Williams, 1965) was a major intercity truck depot now revived with an influx of new local businesses.
20220810. Paroisse St-Rémi is a mid-century expressionist church especially from the sky.
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.
20220805. Rideauview Bible Chapel (Watson and Weigand, 1967), an asymmetrical nondenominational A-frame.
20220804. A lamp on the rear brick wall of Leslieville’s long demolished Woodgreen United Church.
20220803. Looking up I see 123.
20220801.
20220731. Regina Public School.
20220730. Fine concrete lines at the Britannia at 415 Greenview Ave, Napean, Ottawa, 1976.
20220726. The circular Versaterm (formerly A.R. Mosher Centre, Schoeler & Heaton, 1974).
20220724. The St. John Henry Newman Catholic High School chapel has an impressive facade of brick, stone and copper.
20220722. A corner of the finely detailed concrete Donald Summerville Olympic Pool at Woodbine Beach.
20220721. The Personnel Records Centre (Building 18, Tunney’s Pasture federal government campus, 1965) still looks great but is apparently in poor health and demolition is likely.
20220719. The Geological Survey of Canada and Geomatics Canada buildings (Allward and Gouinlock, 1955) are handsome despite all the protruding air-conditioners.
20220714. The Chinese Presbyterian Church at 177 Beverley Street with its furry brick elevator shaft.
20220712. Wexford Presbyterian Church wears a crown of 12 triangular dormers.
20220707. The R.H. Coats building (Ogilvie and Hogg, 1976, Tunney’s Pasture, Ottawa) has a heavy duty concrete exterior.
20220706. St. George Street is home to the modern mid-rise.
20220704. Iroquios Restaurant (now Carousel Cafe) was built when Centre Island Park was created. Master planning started in 1956.
20220703. The semi-detached trapezoid.
20220702. The church with the long pointy hat. First Unitarian Congregation of Ottawa (1967).
