20220911. 220 Laurier Ave W uses lovely corduroy concrete precast panels apart from its ground floor entrance upgrade.
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20220908. Vanier Community Church = City Church + Capital City Bikers Church. “Our services have a very relaxed feel, powerful ‘rock and roll’ music, and dynamic messages.”
20220902. Eastview Plaza was a mid-century modern outdoor shopping mall before its recent demolition. My only image taken before appreciating modern architecture.
20220828. Queen Elizabeth Tower A in profile – one of the earliest condominium developments downtown (1975-78, Tridel). Do the bulges have bigger units?
20220827. Robarts Library has a buddy – the National Research Council Canada National Science Library. Shore Tilbe Henschek Irwin, 1974, Ottawa.
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.
20220820. St Aidan’s awesome Anglican Church. Burgess, McLean and MacPhadyen, Ottawa, 1965.
20220817. The Christ the Saviour Orthodox Church (Basil Miska, 1968) has Byzantine features and bold mid-century modern accents. As with most Orthodox churches, there are three sections each with a cupola and cross.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
