20220904. Thistledown Collegiate Institute, 1957.
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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.
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.
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.
20220806. The Bathville Towers (1966) of North York.
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.
20220731. Regina Public School.
20220726. The circular Versaterm (formerly A.R. Mosher Centre, Schoeler & Heaton, 1974).
20220725. This Bell Canada exchange building was once a four storey streamlined art deco building (1937). It lost its top and gained three floors in the 1960s.
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.
20220702. The church with the long pointy hat. First Unitarian Congregation of Ottawa (1967).
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.
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.
