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The Tourism Victoria Visitor Centre, former Imperial Oil service station (1931)

"This building was originally built in 1931 by the Vancouver architectural firm of Townley and Matheson – [Fred Laughton Townley (1887-1966) and Robert Michael Matheson (1887-1935)] – as a service station for Imperial Oil.... The building’s tower featured a 10 million candle power Sperry Beacon, intended as a navigational aid for float planes approaching Victoria’s Inner Harbour at night, which could seen up to 100 kilometers (60 miles) away. The Sperry Beacon is still in place."


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Translucent alabaster ramps at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg
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Spent 10 minutes on streetview and taking screen caps of board and batten houses in two neighbourhoods of Markham. Old Markham and Unionville. I then hastily put them together into a couple of collages.

Shappy mentioned that style on the churches thread and I had no idea what it was called but I knew that it's my favourite kind of house architecture due to country/village type nature of it. I wish there was way more of this everywhere.

Two other places I know you can easily find this style is Ingelwood, Caledon and Niagara on the Lake.

By my house, this to me is the best house in the entire 'hood and I live in a mature neighbourhood so there's a lot of new mcmansions built, which I think lack charm. They even have the tire swing where the tires are shaped into a horse. It also backs onto a creek.




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Didn't know that terminology either – indeed, great houses 👍🏻
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We have an Ugly thread but I often wonder where to post structures that are the opposite ugly, or at the very least, interesting. So good idea for this thread.

This house in Sauga I think at first glance is nice to look at. They tore out the middle and replaced with what you see. But I'm not sure about its functionality. Seems more like an office inside as it's presented now and I'm not sure it would ever feel cozy. However, it is screened from the street by many trees so it does have privacy.


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Someone I know built an ultra-modern house with a very large volume two-storey open part like that (not that shape) and when they moved in, it was almost unliveable because of the echoes. A lot of added carpeting, wall hangings and other baffles solved the problem eventually, but it wasn't something they'd thought about at all.
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Art Nouveau architecture is almost non-existent in Canada. This is probably the best exemple.

1915
Construction of Canada’s First Residential Art Nouveau Building. One of Canada’s first residential Art Nouveau-style buildings—Edifice Godin designed by Architect Joseph Arthur Godin—is built on the slope of St. Laurent Blvd. Featuring pale-coloured, unconventional, stylistic concrete with arched entrances and windows and cantilevered balconies with iron balustrades, its design is reminiscent of French architectural style of the early 20th century. The Edifice Godin was said to have reinvented urban dwelling in Montreal, inspiring the architect to take his avant-garde approach still further, designing other residential spaces just a stone’s throw from theatres, universities, and shopping districts.
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Someone I know built an ultra-modern house with a very large volume two-storey open part like that (not that shape) and when they moved in, it was almost unliveable because of the echoes. A lot of added carpeting, wall hangings and other baffles solved the problem eventually, but it wasn't something they'd thought about at all.

That's just like when I did a photoshoot for my cousin who is a photographer that gets hired by shutterstock and other companies do shoot pics for ads. I drove around town in GMC Yukon Denali and jesus christ, every bump in the road caused was an assault on my eardrums. The cabin of this vehicle was huge and the bumps caused some echoing soundwaves or something that went straight through ear drums and wreaked havoc on your brain.

If I owned it I'd have to do the same thing to the inside.
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I think we sometimes don't fully realise the architectural value of our grand railway hotels, as evidenced by the unfolding nightmare at the rear of the Chateau Laurier.

That said, my personal favourite of all Canadian hotels must be the Prince of Wales in Alberta. Such a beautiful blend of Canadian cottage kitsch and regal Scottish Highland influence, all on a charmingly small scale. Set amidst the breathtaking scenery, you'd love to find yourself there for just tea if not a night's stay. To me the hotel represents best a romantic, idealised view of Canada's wild frontier within the lap of a bygone British age of luxury.




The Prince of Wales was curiously designed and built by an American Railway as its target audience was guests staying at Great Northern's properties in the adjacent Glacier National Park area (Many Glacier in Babb, Glacier Park Lodge in East Glacier, Lake Macdonald Lodge on Lake Macdonald, Izaac Walton at Essex). In the early days, the Prince of Wales was an escape from US Prohibition laws.

A mid 90's proposal would have added wings on to either side of the property as per the original design. Parks Canada unfortunately did not approve.

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I appreciate that the Prince of Wales has some colour. It's not the typical beige or grey of others, though I understand that's from the material used.

It stands on its own so there was more of an opportunity to do something different. It's not the most beautiful for me but I do like its uniqueness.
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We have an Ugly thread but I often wonder where to post structures that are the opposite ugly, or at the very least, interesting. So good idea for this thread.

This house in Sauga I think at first glance is nice to look at. They tore out the middle and replaced with what you see. But I'm not sure about its functionality. Seems more like an office inside as it's presented now and I'm not sure it would ever feel cozy. However, it is screened from the street by many trees so it does have privacy.


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I appreciate these residents going for the gusto with a bold design, but the centre section looks like a total mismatch with the sides. I do like the middle, it just doesn't go well with the flanks.
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Audain Art Museum, Whistler, BC (Patkau Architects)


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Casey House – Toronto, ON


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Illusuak Cultural Centre – Nain, Labrador (Saunders Architecture)



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Northern Lights College – Dawson Creek, B.C.

"Alluding to the aurora borealis, a large clerestory is animated by dyamically changing LED lights at night. The illuminated façade is a colourful presence along Dawson Creek’s main throughfare."




"Coloured glass animates the east façade during the daytime."
- McFarland Marceau Architects/https://www.canadianarchitect.com/a-...tish-columbia/
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Union Bank Building – Winnipeg, MB (1903–1904)

Claimed to be 'Canada’s first skyscraper' in this blog post:
https://www.numberten.com/blog/26-ur...ower-the-crown


- https://twitter.com/brent_bellamy

"Postcard view of the Union Bank Building under construction (circa 1903) by George Barrowclough":


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Champagne Bath, King Edward Avenue, 1921.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champagne_Bath

Plante Bath, Preston Street, 1924.


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Anyone else see a resemblance to this?

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I can't imagine it's very cheap to heat and cool that space. Interesting nonetheless, even if it clashes too much with its flanks.


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An often overlooked Ottawa structure, the Horticulture Building at Lansdowne Park. Used this Winter as a flu vaccination centre and about to be re-purposed as one of our central COVID vaccination clinics.


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"The design of the Horticulture Building is attributed to architect Francis Conroy Sullivan (1882-1929), although the drawings were prepared by the office of architect Allan Keefer (1883-1952), another local architect. The exact roles played by each architect are unknown.

The Horticulture Building is an excellent interpretation of the Prairie style pioneered by Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959), as illustrated by its rectilinear massing, symmetrical composition, strong corner piers, slab-like roofs with broad cantilevered wood cornices, band of clerestory windows with geometric glazing patterns, horizontal stone banding, and minimal but stylized ornamentation."

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