20250120. Textured concrete so nice that you can almost feel it.
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20230920. #Moriyama30 #18 – The Canadian War Museum, Ottawa, 2005.
I know I said Toronto area but just look at that beautiful wet board-form concrete!
In memory of Raymond Moriyama, here’s 30 Ontario works by Mr. Moriyama and Moriyama Teshima Architects in 30 days. #ottawa #ottawaarch #ottawaarchitecture #architecture
20230110. The corner of a building.
20221030. The Canada Post Ottawa Mail Processing Plant (OMPP). D’Arcy Helmer, 1970.
20221023. The National Library and Archives building (Mathers and Haldenby, 1967) is a classified federal heritage building. The tower housing the stacks features many small punched windows.
20221022. Construction and rehabilitation of the Royal Alexandra Bridge (1900) between Ottawa and Gatineau, a National Historic Civil Engineering Site. From 2010.
20221019. Inside and outside Bemi’s Brutalist Bibliothèque (Ottawa Public Library main branch, George Bemi, 1973).
20221018. This office / apartment building complex (Kenson Towers, Crang and Boake, 1960) is all about contrast – commercial x residential, short x tall. horizontal x vertical, thick x thin, brick x concrete – all sitting on a neutral updated base.
20221017. Interesting angles, exposed pipes and smokestack at the Power Plant (Murray and Murray, 1973), providing district heating and cooling at University of Ottawa.
20221016. One of a series of 3 spans called the Minto Bridges crossing the Rideau River and connecting Green and Maple Islands to the mainland. Dominion Bridge Company of Montreal, 1900.
20221015. The cute little Faith Evangelical Lutheran Church in Nepean, Ottawa.
20221014. Part of the Lester B. Pearson Building (WZMH, 1973).
20221013. The centre deck of the Royal Alexandra Bridge (1900) between Ottawa and Gatineau carried CPR trains while the side decks carried electric trolleys and carriages. It is a National Historic Civil Engineering Site. From 2010.
20221011. Pleasant Park Baptist Church (Norman D. Sherriff, 1961) features a zigzag chimney and handrail, coloured tiles and glass blocks.
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).
20221003. Bulky balcony building on Bank Street (1986).
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
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.
20220919. The Treehouse, or Kemper House (Jim Strutt, 1962) resides in the only modernist heritage conservation district in Canada.
20220916. Nested Triangles Parish or St. Timothy’s Presbyterian Church in Alta Vista. Burgess, MCLean & MacPhadyen, 1959.
