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.”
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20220710. The Jeanne Mance building (modernist, international style, 1969) is Building #19 at the sprawling Tunney’s Pasture federal government campus.
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!
20220630. The original NAC is far more impressive to me than its addition however contemporary.
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.
20220624. Pinecrest Public School features two concentric circles of zig zag roof. Craig Madill Abram & Ingleson, 1961.
20220623. An abstract bronze sculpture by Charles Daudelin (1969) at the National Arts Centre. Anyone know what it’s called?
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.
20220620. The Belltown Dome is an experimental skating arena with a geodesic external structure in the shape of a half capsule with hemispherical ends.
20220619. Vanier Hall, University of Ottawa, 1954.
20220614. Concrete architecture is timeless. At once modern, contemporary and futuristic.
20220613. Entering the untouched part of the (National Arts Centre). I love concrete, especially the large aggregate stuff. Let’s spend some time in Ottawa, a city that has grown on me in the last few days of touring. Ottawa modernism rivals Toronto easily!
20220410. The overlapping window frames of Ottawa’s Place Vanier towers (1971).
20201121. Bemi’s Brutalist Bibliothèque (Ottawa Public Library main branch).
University of Ottawa’s Brutalist Morisset Hall was built in 1972 to centralize library system administration.
20170721. Bemi’s Brutalist Bibliothèque (Ottawa Public Library main branch).
20170714. Colonel By Hall, the Brutalist home of University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Engineering.
20170708. Ottawa’s Place Bell Parkade, a striking array of slits and slats.
