20221008. White circles in glass rectangles. Minimal Aesthetic 76 from 2015.
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20221007. The Royal Trust Building (Jim Strutt for the Architects’ Collaborative, 1960) features buff textured precast concrete and window insets with triangles on top and bottom. Info from Capitalmodern.ca
20221006. The Public Service Alliance Building, with its stretched elliptic cylinderical shape and iron-spot brick, defies categorization and still seems current 54 years after construction (Schoeler Heaton Harvor Menendez, 1968).
20221005. The Grid Condos facade.
20221002. This modernist Concourse building is attached to a strip mall (1085 Steeles Ave W) which would make a great location for a new residential building with retail at ground.
20221001. A funky porte cochere that reminds me of the mid-century expressionism of Uno Prii.
20220930. “The Dominion Observatory is an excellent example of an eclectic blend of Romanesque Revival and Edwardian Classicist styles” (1904, David Ewart, Chief Architect of the Department of Public Works). #ottawa #architecture #ottawaarch #heritage #historicsite @ParksCanada
20220929. The base of the The Concourse building at 1085 Steeles Ave E.
20220928. The old school modernist concrete and brick bus shelters of the large and sparse Confederation Heights public service campus in Ottawa
20220926. The tent-shaped St-Rémi Parish by Polish architect Zygmunt Julian Nowak, 1965.
20220925. Brutalist Convenience at J.J.’s Market.
20220924. The Billings Bridge Tower (1974) is a modernist office tower with romanesque arches at grade.
20220923. An industrial park office building with interesting precast coarse aggregate concrete panels that interact with matching window blinds.
20220922. This impressive 1974 John B Parkin concrete office tower will be demolished for a 62-storey @WZMHarchitects mixed use tower. It sits north of 488 University, another WZMH building whose concrete facade was lost.
20220921. The mid-rise Maclean Hunter building facade seems secured for the construction of the 55 storey United Building at University and Dundas.
20220920. Not only do the Ontario Power Building and the TTC Orde transformer substation have power in common, they look good together too.
20220919. The Treehouse, or Kemper House (Jim Strutt, 1962) resides in the only modernist heritage conservation district in Canada.
20220918. Great massing at the townhouses of Cedarbrook Park Co-operative in Scarborough
20220917. The stunning new Ace Hotel Toronto by Shim-Sutcliffe Architects.
20220916. Nested Triangles Parish or St. Timothy’s Presbyterian Church in Alta Vista. Burgess, MCLean & MacPhadyen, 1959.
20220915. The brutalist porte cochere. 145 Marlee Ave, 1973.
20220914. A reflection of 275 Slater Street (1968).
20220913. The view from the new elevated park at CIBC Square that sits above the Union Station rail corridor.
20220912. The breeze block HVAC enclosure.
20220911. 220 Laurier Ave W uses lovely corduroy concrete precast panels apart from its ground floor entrance upgrade.
