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Beautiful Canadian architecture

Interested in discovering more architectural jewels in Canada that are perhaps not very well-known across the country. For legibility, one building per post and please include a photo (one max.) plus blurb and/or link to further information.

The Petrie Building, Guelph, Ontario



"The Petrie Building is one of three remaining Canadian buildings built before 1890 that had full metal façades, and is now truly one of a kind, as it is the only remaining machine, stamped building. The façade was made by Bakewell & Mullins in Ohio, which ran a mail-order business that allowed customers to create the façade that best suited their plans. A. B. Petrie customized the façade for his building crowned by the iconic mortar and pestle (tools of the day for a pharmacy)."

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https://www.petriebuilding.ca

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Le Diamant Theatre, Quebec City



photo: Stéphane Groleau/Canadian Architect
https://twitter.com/CdnArch/status/1311720981204008960
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Qualico Family Centre, Assiniboine Park Cafe, Winnipeg



"According to Bellamy, the goal for the design was to create a responsible, evocative and emotionally inspiring building rooted to its site, resonating with its specific place and greater context. Structure, space and materials, he says, are choreographed to the rhythms of nature, expressing the beauty and power of the landscape."

https://www.numberten.com/blog/26-ur...urban-paradise
photo: https://www.numberten.com/projects/q...-family-centre
Brent Bellamy/Number Ten Architectural Group

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The James Hope Building, Ottawa. Designed by one of Ottawa's premier architects, W.E. Noffke, it was completed in 1910. This 9 storey building is often referred as the city's first "skyscraper".

https://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep...u.aspx?id=4632

Ottawa Ontario - Bible House AKA Hope Building - Sparks Street Mall - Moon by Onasill ~ Bill, on Flickr
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When the Imperial Theater was built in Saint John in 1913 the builder was thought crazy because why would he build such a grand theater in a city like Saint John.

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That Petrie building is just stunning. I love absolutely every single thing about it.
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King James Place 1888. This building always kind of amazed me as it must have been very tough or very expensive to heat in the winter when it was built. Also it's first floor has an iron facade.

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I've alway's liked Vancouver's Sun Tower. One of two "tallest in the British Empire" buildings in Vancouver:

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What was the other building? I can't think of it.
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What was the other building? I can't think of it.
The Dominion Building?


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What was the other building? I can't think of it.
I think it was the Marine Building:

The Marine Building in Vancouver by Alex L, on Flickr
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The Marine Tower my initial thought, but the taller Royal Bank Tower in Montreal was built several years earlier.
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All great suggestions – thanks, looking forward to more.

Borden Park Natural Swimming Pool, Edmonton

"The Borden Park Natural Swimming Pool (NSP) is the first chemical–free public outdoor pool to be built in Canada."



photo: gh3* architects
https://www.gh3.ca/work/natural-swimming-pool-02
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Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT) Parkade, Calgary (2009)

"... a façade composed of semi-perforated metal screens (or pixels) that allow natural light and ventilation into the interior of the parkade while creating a giant exterior art piece that interacts with sunlight to produce an animated image of clouds floating by."



photo: https://architizer.com
Revery Architecture/Marshall Tittemore Architects
https://reveryarchitecture.com/projects/sait-parkade/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRtmpCqGWbQ
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The Marine Tower my initial thought, but the taller Royal Bank Tower in Montreal was built several years earlier.
It was in fact the Dominion Building as someone had pointed out not the Marine Building.
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Monique-Corriveau Library – conversion of Saint-Denys-du-Plateau Church, Sainte-Foy, Quebec



Dan Hanganu + Côté Leahy Cardas Architects
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http://www.archicontemporaine.org/RM...?fiche_id=3486
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St. John's doesn't have a lot of very attractive architecture as our grandest public buildings were destroyed in the great fires of 1846 and 1892. Surviving buildings, as well as just about everything built following the great fires, are provincial commercial and residential buildings like you'd see in any random British or Irish town.

One of my favourites, built just after the Great Fire of 1892, is the Delgado Building. It's nothing spectacular, but a glass atrium now encompasses the laneway that formerly ran alongside it.

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169 Water Street is historically valuable because of its association with Andrew Delgado. Delgado, an Italian immgrant, came to Newfoundland as a young man and had established a business in the mining town of Tilt Cove, Green Bay. After the mine closed in 1880, he relocated to St. John's and set up his first fruit store on Water Street, west of Prince's Street. After the 1892 fire, he relocated to this building at 169 Water Street. From this store he sold a variey of goods, but is best known for the moderate to expensive tea which you could purchase from him. Society matrons would only buy Degado's best blend; what they did not know is that all the tea sold came from the same tea chest.
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And one more that I like - the Commercial Chambers Building (now home to the Travel Bug and the Bees Knees).

It's the one on the right, a Romanesque Revival building.

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The Commercial Chambers Building has historic value because of its associations with the builder, William J. Ellis. Constructed in 1896 the Commercial Chambers Building is a fine and well-maintained example of post-fire architecture. William Ellis established his business in 1890 and was one of the most important reconstruction contractors in St. John’s after the devastating Great Fire of July 8, 1892. By the early 1900s Ellis was one of the city’s largest employers. In addition to the Commercial Chambers Building, his most significant projects were the main tunnel of the St. John’s sewage system, the St. John’s Total Abstinence and Benefit Society Hall, and the “Merchant’s Block” on Water Street. Ellis served as a Member of the House of Assembly for Ferryland from 1904-1909, as Mayor of St. John’s from 1910-1914 and as Minister without Portfolio from 1918-1919. The Commercial Chambers Building has cultural value because it is a symbol of the post-fire reconstruction era. It represents the culture of the time and the resilience of the people of St. John’s in overcoming devastating loss.
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Prior to joining Canada (and for a while after), we elected the People's Party, flirted with Cuba, and all of that communist goodness. The effects still exist - we're the most heavily unionized anglophone jurisdiction in North America, etc. But one of the coolest effects is Port Union, which is a now National Historic Site of Canada as its only union-founded community.

At the centre of it is the 1946 Salt Fish Plant. As far as fish plants go, it's exceptionally beautiful. The whole historic district of Port Union has been mostly restored from literal ruin just a couple decades ago (this building, for example, had giant holes in it all of the place).

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The Salt Fish Plant has cultural value because of its relevance to the town of Port Union and its associations with early industry in this region. The Salt Fish Plant was developed by William F. Coaker, founder of the town of Port Union and the Fishermen’s Protective Union. The major focus of economic activity at Port Union revolved around the salt fish industry and this building was a hub of activity and a major employer for the union-built town. The Salt Fish Plant is valued for its scientific advances. Several components related to extensive early use of modern technology such as electric powered elevators, fish driers and presses remain in the building. The use of this technology put the fish plant ahead of many others in terms of production and output, allowing the Fishermen’s Trading Company a competitive edge in the salt fish market.
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Great history and streetscapes in NL there...

University of Saskatchewan Thorvaldson Chemistry Building, Saskatoon (1924)

Shot and originally posted by Echoes in thread below.



"Another Montreal firm, Brown and Vallance, was chosen in 1909 by the board of governors of the University of Saskatchewan to create a master plan for the campus and act as university architects until the 1930s; they went on to design what has been identified as the finest grouping of collegiate Gothic-style buildings in Canada."

http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/show...207340&page=44
http://digital.scaa.sk.ca/gallery/uo..._chemistry.htm
https://esask.uregina.ca/entry/archi..._influence.jsp
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