20220807. The Hellenic Meeting & Reception Centre features squares of brick and mirrored glass.
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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.
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.
20220728. 400 Adelaide Street East has some nice lines. Hariri Pontarini, 2014.
20220727. A transmission tower that changes the direction of power.
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.
20220724. The St. John Henry Newman Catholic High School chapel has an impressive facade of brick, stone and copper.
20220722. A corner of the finely detailed concrete Donald Summerville Olympic Pool at Woodbine Beach.
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.
20220720. The triangles of Seicho-No_Ie (say-choh no ee-yay) Toronto, where they worship a nondenominational God based on the divine inspirations of one man in 1930 Japan.
20220719. The Geological Survey of Canada and Geomatics Canada buildings (Allward and Gouinlock, 1955) are handsome despite all the protruding air-conditioners.
20220718. The east face of Beth Tikvah Synagogue (conservative, egalitarian, established 1962) features an architectural menorah.
20220714. The Chinese Presbyterian Church at 177 Beverley Street with its furry brick elevator shaft.
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).
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.
20220704. Iroquios Restaurant (now Carousel Cafe) was built when Centre Island Park was created. Master planning started in 1956.
