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.
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20220808. The Merit Condos, built in 2014, really channel that art deco vibe.
20220807. The Hellenic Meeting & Reception Centre features squares of brick and mirrored glass.
20220805. Rideauview Bible Chapel (Watson and Weigand, 1967), an asymmetrical nondenominational A-frame.
20220802. A mid-century modern church steeple.
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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).
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.
20220713. Ottawa Hydro Electric Sub-Station No 4 in the Modern Classical Style, a variant of Art Deco often used for public buildings (William C. Beattie, 1931).
20220711. The Brooke Claxton Building (Building #9, Tunney’s Pasture federal government campus, 1964) is a classified federal heritage building designed in the “Modern International Style with aspects of Brutalism.”
20220707. The R.H. Coats building (Ogilvie and Hogg, 1976, Tunney’s Pasture, Ottawa) has a heavy duty concrete exterior.
20220705. The beauty of rounded brick and narrow fenestration in the International Style. Carling Square, Little Italy or The Glebe or Centretown West, Ottawa, 1974.
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.
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.
20220622. Enter the First Unitarian Congregation of Ottawa – built in 1967 for $45,000.
20220621. The 1090 Ambleside Drive parking garage with striated concrete and matching window bars.
