Todmorden Developments Brings ‘Bachelorama’ to the Rosedale Valley (1956)
Here is another short one. This time, it’s from Toronto and about an apartment that I’ve noticed every time I walk by.
Category: Architects
Architects/Federal District (National Capital) Commission/Jacques Gréber/Ottawa/Transcript/Watson Balharrie
Watson Balharrie Critiques (part of) the National Capital Plan
Although it was indisputably popular among many of Ottawa’s citizens, the National Capital Plan was not without its detractors. Both the concept and imple...
J. Morris Woolfson’s Commissions
If you’ve ever looked into the construction of apartments, small commercial buildings, and industrial buildings in Ottawa during the mid-century period,...
Views: Carleton’s University Centre From Above (1963-2015)
I’ve never hidden my love for the modernist campus of Carleton University. That its Rideau Campus was designed from the get-go as a modern departure from ...
Update: Porcupine General Hospital (1938) and the Tisdale Municipal Building (1940)
Almost two weeks ago, I wrote a short story about the Tisdale Municipal Building in South Porcupine. While I was able to get an architect and speak a little abo...
Tisdale Municipal Building (1940)
When I was growing up in South Porcupine, the Tisdale Municipal Building was always an interesting one. The white stucco, though worn by the 1980s, glistened de...
Architects in Ottawa, 1960
I first began to think about just where in the city architects were based when I began to notice that so many of them had set up shop on MacLaren street in the ...