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Also for calgary:

AGT Building (1929)



Glenmore Water Treatment plant (1933)



Masonic temple (1928)



Plaza Theatre (1929)



Model Milk building (1933)




www.beltline.ca

Other than the last one, all photos: http://www.calgary.ca/PDA/LUPP/Pages...resources.aspx


Excellent post Here are a few other examples of Art Deco in Calgary...


Hollingsworth Building






Barron Building







Jack Singer Concert Hall (part of the Epcor Centre for the Performing Arts, the 3rd largest performing arts venue in the country)
This one is a bit of a mix between Art Deco, Edwardian, and Palladian.

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Old Posted Apr 9, 2014, 7:30 PM
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Probably Hamilton's most popular example:





(not my photos, just click them to go to the photographer's flickr pages)

Although technically not Art Deco but rather Gothic, the Pigott building is of the same era of construction:



The Sun Life building beside it is a bit older I believe. It had a more detailed cornice piece that was dismantled at some point. They're both condo buildings now.

There are other examples in Hamilton but I don't have very good photos of them.
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Vancouver - City Hall







Edmonton - Enterprise Square







Edmonton - Bay Enterprise Square Station



http://subwaynut.com/canada/edmonton...uare/index.php





Edmonton - Corona Station



http://subwaynut.com/canada/edmonton/corona/index.php
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Gonzaga High School... err... I mean... our Confederation Building, the Provincial Legislature of Newfoundland and Labrador (built in the 1950s following our joining Canada).


www.shorock.com



They're currently changing the green panels and clear glass to blue panels and blue glass. It's looking less like a high school these days. Less.

It was modeled on Vancouver City Hall as a symbol of Newfoundland now expanding its horizons/borders.

There's a giant statue of Gaspar Corte-Real outside it because reasons.
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Lovely thread and nice pictures. Art Déco being my favorite architecture style.

Can't wait for a post from TO with the King of all Art Déco buildings in Canada...

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I like the Bank of Nova Scotia building across King from Commerce Court North. Not nearly as flashy as its neighbour, but interesting in that it was designed in 1929 but not built until twenty years later, due to the Depression and the war.
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There is a nice Art Deco streamline school 2 streets from my house


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Toronto - Commerce Court North

How awesome is that?? A cross between Lord of the Rings and ZZ Top
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Some of Toronto's best and most notable art deco buildings:


Park Lane Apartments (1938)


https://www.flickr.com/photos/57156785@N02/7314681848


Bank of Nova Scotia (1951)


https://www.flickr.com/photos/68678468@N06/6873440242


Eglinton Theatre (1934)


https://www.flickr.com/photos/cinesix/5630309808


R.C. Harris Water Treatment Plant (1941)


https://www.flickr.com/photos/williamself/2656783223


J. Frank Raw Ltd. (1930)


http://ironicmrfox.blogspot.ca/2012/...ch-street.html


Design Exchange (1937)


https://www.flickr.com/photos/hellek23d/1313302045/


Canada Permanent Trust Building (1930)


https://www.flickr.com/photos/jamesdhay/7785931080


Sterling Tower (1929)


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sterling_Tower.JPG


Toronto Hydro Building (1931)


http://www.tobuilt.ca/php/tobuilding...earch_fd3=2063


Kingsway Theatre (1939)


https://www.flickr.com/photos/86474756@N00/173939849


Maple Leaf Gardens (1931)


https://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelclesle/92965398


952 Kingston (1936)


http://livehigh.com/toronto/the_beac...rn_beach_lofts


Commerce Court North (1931)


https://www.flickr.com/photos/funinthegym/7087730755


Loblaws Groceterias Warehouse (1928)


https://www.flickr.com/photos/erniekwong/12173443874


Horse Palace (1931)


https://www.flickr.com/photos/glennrgannon/7224774796


Fleetwood Apartments (1939)


https://www.flickr.com/photos/lu_/205739166


Forest Hill Manor (19??)


http://spacing.ca/toronto/2014/01/28/art-deco-eglinton/


Campbell Family Building (1935)


https://www.flickr.com/photos/peterstogios/293534047
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WOW! Can't believe 952 Kingston is from 1936! Looks like it could have been built last year!
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It was renovated and turned into condos a few years back.
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A related question, what's the general age of the buildings in your downtown?

Here 99.9% are from the 1800s, with the majority of them built in the 1890s.
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Here is the interior of the former Uptown theatre inside the Barron Building. This is all lost now and the interior is being converted into offices. They had these amazing parties there like 6 years ago that took up the whole theatre. Such a shame it's gone.

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A related question, what's the general age of the buildings in your downtown?

Here 99.9% are from the 1800s, with the majority of them built in the 1890s.
Ottawa's CBD dates mostly around 1960-1976. Between Sparks and Wellington, buildings date between 1884 (first Federal office building built off Parliament Hill) and 1958. Parliament Hill was built between 1859 and 1949.

Rideau/Market varies greatly with some old Bytown (before 1855) era buildings and plenty of early 20th Century buildings (though many were lost in the last 20 years) and of course about a dozen or so bland new condo towers.
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A few more from Ottawa;

Empire Building on O'Connor

https://www.flickr.com/photos/sheldef/10895544623/

Wesley Building on Wellington West

http://ottawastart.blogspot.ca/2014/...arrie-put.html

Interior of Constitution Square office complex (1986-2006)

http://www.archphoto.ca/commercialinteri.html

Bank of Canada

http://metronews.ca/news/canada/4042...ank_of_canada/
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The Barron building in Calgary is the only real example I can think of here. It's being redeveloped but keeping the main facade as it is now designated a historic building.



Here is the proposed redevelopment.

So Calgary has few art deco buildings but you destroy one of the few ones you have? Keeping a facade is NOT preservation. All the interiors are heading to the City dump I suppose?

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..... that Montréal domination! wow!
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The CARLU is arguably the neatest Art Deco interior in Canada.
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Additional notable exemples in Montreal.

Le 600 Boulevard René-Lévesque Ouest


Art Deco Building by Sandra Cohen-Rose and Colin Rose on Flickr

Former Montreal Bank branch at Laurier/Saint-Denis
(we can also see in the background the art deco tower of l'Eglise Saint-Denis - see previous page for a more detailed pic)


Montréal, 24 sept. 2011. Ave. Laurier, depuis rue Saint-Denis >Est. by Philippe Du Berger on Flickr


Theatre Outremont (1929)


Théâtre Outremont by Alain Quevillon on Flickr


Outremont Theatre by Susan van Gelder on Flickr


Conciergerie et Theatre Outremont by Rommheim on Flickr


Building at south-east corner of Ste-Catherine and Metcalfe.


Art Deco - Ste-Catherine & Metcalfe - Ville-Marie C20090314 004 by Sandra Cohen-Rose and Colin Rose on Flickr


Art Deco - 8th Avenue & Rosemont - Rosemont mC20090908 021 by Sandra Cohen-Rose and Colin Rose on Flickr

Montreal was booming in the mid-twenties to the end of the thirties. There are many residential art deco buildings all over town. It'd harder for me to find the date of construction of all of those, but here are some nonetheless. It's safe to assume that they were all erected the art deco period during the thirties and maybe early forties.


Source: http://www.cspi.qc.ca


Source: http://www.cspi.qc.ca


Art Deco Duplex
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Montreal Art Deco by Sandra Cohen-Rose and Colin Rose on Flickr


Montreal Art Deco by Sandra Cohen-Rose and Colin Rose on Flickr

2780, avenue Willowdale


Picture: Alain Laforest, 2012.
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