[vanman]

*EDIT* Geez I'm an idiot, I mispelled Canadian in the title of this thread. Any mods wanna help out?

So basically I was inspired by this thread from SSC:
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=994659

I've only very recently become interested in this era of architecture. I think most people in general would write off the entire period as hideously fugly but now I'm slowly starting to see the merits and value of the buildings that were built during these two decades.

So let's see the best examples of 50s & 60s architecture from your city!

I'll start with Vancouver.

Simon Fraser University

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v643/vannmann/3733502409_d047463422_b.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/uncle_buddha/3733502409/sizes/l/

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v643/vannmann/2056722994_9fb2803629_b.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mandyjansen/2056722994/sizes/l/

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v643/vannmann/2409520897_4ee61b7aeb_o.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/a-vision/2409520897/sizes/o/

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v643/vannmann/3735917047_43122ef7ff_o.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/31391300@N04/3735917047/sizes/o/

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v643/vannmann/2056723020_e411484623_b.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mandyjansen/2056723020/sizes/l/

The Electra

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v643/vannmann/12867583_2cd43fe3e0_b.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jmv/12867583/sizes/l/

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v643/vannmann/4044910529_bcf591967c_b.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/artefaqscorporation/4044910529/sizes/l/

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v643/vannmann/12865245_07f65bf811_o.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jmv/12865245/sizes/o/

Guinness Tower

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v643/vannmann/3455096816_ebe4f3bb1f_b.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/uncle_buddha/3455096816/sizes/l/

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v643/vannmann/3858182350_45db1255ba_b.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/uncle_buddha/3858182350/sizes/l/in/set-72157602944111300/

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v643/vannmann/251080896_29072a4f12_b.jpg

1075 West Georgia

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v643/vannmann/2281997143_289dbb0d25_b.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7791789@N06/2281997143/sizes/l/

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v643/vannmann/3838940026_1c5a9556f3_b.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/uncle_buddha/3838940026/sizes/l/

More to come ..........

[Ayreonaut]

Elveden Centre

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/Elveden-Szmurlo.jpg
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elveden_Centre_%28Calgary%29)

[HomeInMyShoes]

Nice. I love the 50s and 60s, even the bad examples like Tower Gardens. Great examples are some of the best architecture in my opinion. All photos courtesy of me.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2408/1796498082_13207e915c.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/14303872@N05/1796498082/)
1956 - Tower Gardens, Regina, SK

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2156/2457462243_88a7fd348e.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/14303872@N05/2457462243/)
1962 - Regina Public Library, Regina, SK

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2130/1991321097_c8ab02ed69.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/14303872@N05/1991321097/)
1968 - Library Building, University of Regina, Regina, SK

[Coldrsx]

A few from Edmonton courtesy of (http://www.flickr.com/photos/36557155@N06/3599158322/in/set-72157619297261300/):

Old City Hall
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3617/3599158322_72047b892b.jpg

Jubilee Auditorium (twin in Calgary)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3354/3598334701_46f4b34e60.jpg

Wicked awesome Caravan Hotel (now a Holiday Inn Express)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3343/3599052860_0c78614047.jpg

MacDonald Annex (torn down now)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3561/3614413693_8f9a7f37de.jpg

Planetarium awesomeness
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3566/3614413593_13a9e251eb.jpg
--------

Milner building
http://www.davidmurrayarchitect.ca/images/projects/modern/A_1957_Northwest_Utilities_Building.jpg (http://www.davidmurrayarchitect.ca/images/projects/modern/A_1957_Northwest_Utilities_Building.jpg)

Baker Clinic
http://www.artgalleryalberta.com/images/stories/exhibitionImages/bakerclinic1.jpg (http://www.artgalleryalberta.com/images/stories/exhibitionImages/bakerclinic1.jpg)

HUB mall
http://www.fineart.utoronto.ca/canarch/prairies/prairies.jpgs/4-8.jpg (http://www.fineart.utoronto.ca/canarch/prairies/prairies.jpgs/4-8.jpg)

Edmonton Art Gallery
http://www.epl.ca/Resources/Photos/Buildings/EdmontonArtGallery.gif (http://www.epl.ca/Resources/Photos/Buildings/EdmontonArtGallery.gif)

Recently replaced with this (opening in Jan/10)
http://www.cdnarchitect.com/common_scripts/xtq_images/112016-74484.jpg (http://www.cdnarchitect.com/common_scripts/xtq_images/112016-74484.jpg)

Federal Building (under a $365,000,000 reno as we speak)
http://cac.mcgill.ca/bland/building/pictures/full/2-31.jpg (http://cac.mcgill.ca/bland/building/pictures/full/2-31.jpg)



I highly recommend picking up a copy of this book on Edmonton's architecture from 1940-1969

http://capitalmodern.blogspot.com/

[1ajs]

winnipegs 2nd tallest 1968
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3191/2399995948_442c7d6025.jpg

city hall 1963
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3086/2694492568_533013df01_o.jpg
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/232/490510284_159292142b_o.jpg

air terminal 1963
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2223/2220510882_d77bbaaeba_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3064/2858318921_b3502fefc5_o.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2399/2220510462_375445e6a7_o.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2041/2220510220_cd5fb3136b_o.jpg


http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Fta5SQvT4nc/Sf2VLBKMSRI/AAAAAAAAAvw/FHzzMM1hfsQ/s400/old+terminal.jpg
source:http://wbi.lib.umanitoba.ca/WinnipegBuildings/

[caltrane74]

Toronto City Hall

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3455/3994445484_e55a272a18_b.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/22240293@N05/3994445484/sizes/l/
from http://www.flickr.com/photos/22240293@N05/
FranciscoDiez at www.flickr.com

I was also thinking about TD Centre

[waterloowarrior]

Ottawa - British High Commission Building (1964)

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2790/4109443197_37a7f939c8_o.jpg (streetview)

Toronto - TD Bank Tower - 1967
Bregman + Hamann Architects and John B. Parkin Associates in consultation with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

http://www.glasssteelandstone.com/Images/CA/ON/Toronto/200801/TDBankTower-Aug08-004a.jpg
(glasssteelandstone.com)

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2055/2485550604_205fc1d998.jpg
Scott Norsworthy - flickr

[Ayreonaut]

Toronto - TD Bank Tower - 1967
Bregman + Hamann Architects and John B. Parkin Associates in consultation with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

http://www.glasssteelandstone.com/Images/CA/ON/Toronto/200801/TDBankTower-Aug08-004a.jpg
(glasssteelandstone.com)

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2055/2485550604_205fc1d998.jpg
Scott Norsworthy - flickr

/thread

[0773|=\]

I was hoping someone would share some photos of Winnipeg's old airport terminal. Thanks for posting, 1ajs.

[Kevin_foster]

Peter Hemmingway Pool (If I'm correct... 1968?)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/71/204938847_64c3458869.jpg?v=0
from flickr (http://farm1.static.flickr.com/71/204938847_64c3458869.jpg?v=0)

[Coldrsx]

How do I forget one of my favorites...

CN Tower, Edmonton, 1966

http://www.cawcouncil4000.com/sitebuilder/images/cntower-279x547.jpg
(http://www.cawcouncil4000.com/sitebuilder/images/cntower-279x547.jpg)

[Kevin_foster]

Canada sure has some Gem's as far as this type of architecture is concerned. It's almost as if we are slowly going back to that style, but instead of using concrete, we are using glass and steel.

[Kevin_foster]

How do I forget one of my favorites...

CN Tower, Edmonton, 1966

http://www.cawcouncil4000.com/sitebuilder/images/cntower-279x547.jpg


You're partially the reason I went from disliking this building, to absolutely loving it. She's a beaut. I love the slight curvature....

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1239/582990877_dcb35378b6_b.jpg
source: http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1239/582990877_dcb35378b6_b.jpg

[jeremy_haak]

I know a lot of people hate the fact that the old station was abandoned, and the location of the new one sucks, but I do think it's an architectural gem.

Ottawa's Train Station, built in 1966
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/150/378017392_18fdaeb650_b.jpg

A small photogallery of the station. (http://madhava.com/photo/christmas2004/2004_12_27/)

[vid]

Thunder Bay's architecture from that era is quite modest, except for the University (which is a massive, brutalist structure similar to SFU but less west-coasty) but I don't have any pictures of its main building. I think the problem people have with the era's architecture is that you have to be a bit educated to understand why the buildings look like they do, to appreciate the style. If you don't know anything about it, they look ... scary? But I think this might pass and 20 or 40 years from now we'll be scrambling to protect what is left of them, just as we have with the Victorian and Edwardian era buildings in the past few decades.

Fort William/Thunder Bay City Hall, as it appeared from 1964 to 2008.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3037/2665060694_8d3ed8951e_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/vidioman/2665060694/)

It was renovated over the past year (http://www.flickr.com/photos/vidioman/4092184052/sizes/l/), it barely resembles what it once was. They used really bad materials but the design was actually pretty good. I like the way the light played on the facade of the council chambers.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2447/3737097652_dd9d859cd6.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/vidioman/3737097652/)

--

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3471/3787052170_f7549b4576_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/vidioman/3787052170/)

City Hall Annex, the short building in the foreground, was built in 1959. I have recently come to appreciate it. The building behind it, Glengowan Apartments, was built in the mid 1960s as a Holiday Inn. Its architecture is confused--it has fluted pilasters and a balustraded (using the term loosely, mind you) roof line, but is sparse of most other details. It's like a half-assed attempt at modernism. Eager to design something contemporary but too scared to design something too contemporary.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3607/3674818644_d4283962df_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/vidioman/3674818644/)

This building was built in 1954 for St. Joseph's Hospital, to house nurses who were learning medicine at the hospital. In the 1970s it was renovated to house the Sister Margaret Smith Centre for Addictions. That centre recently moved to a new building across town, and this structure will be torn down in just a few days to make way for a new psychiatric hospital. The view up the walkway from Court Street (http://www.flickr.com/photos/vidioman/3231075986/) is really nice.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2471/3588409528_570f33b3d0_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/vidioman/3588409528/)

St. Patrick's Cathedral, built in 1963. The bricks are Tyndall stone, with lots of small fossils.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3579/3500748569_0b3b5ced3c.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/vidioman/3500748569/)

On the left is the original ground floor of the art deco Royal Edward Arms, on the right, the mid-1960s expansion.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3541/3458315557_da563cf3fc.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/vidioman/3458315557/)http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3614/3450902157_45b2401cfd.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/vidioman/3450902157/)
Dom Polski in Port Arthur, one of the most recognizable buildings in the European quarter; and a late 50s era office building anchoring a downtown strip mall.

[P Unit]

If this thread takes off the way I think it will, it has the potential to be very, very good. Great submissions so far!

[Distill3d]

Elveden Centre

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/Elveden-Szmurlo.jpg
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elveden_Centre_%28Calgary%29)

Definitely one of my favorites anywhere! This was Calgary's first skyscraper if I recall correctly.

[WpG_GuY]

Public Safety Building 1966/City Hall 1966

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2615/3763683215_dc2111ac10_b.jpg


http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2538/3730523617_94e3f26ee4_b.jpg

Manitoba Museum & Planetarium 1968-70
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2435/3731319098_af1d16d96e_b.jpg
Richardson Building 1969
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2205/3731539928_ddd9ab2f90_o.jpg

Centennial Concert Hall 1965
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2589/3726090576_006bb70310_b.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2644/3730523245_86defb1e9e_b.jpg

[fenwick16]

http://www.halifaxinfocenter.com/images/scotia_mall.jpg

Scotia Square - Duke Tower in Halifax. Construction started in 1967. (source http://www.halifaxinfocenter.com/merchant2.php/list2/248/Scotia+Square+Mall )

[entheosfog]

Definitely one of my favorites anywhere! This was Calgary's first skyscraper if I recall correctly.

Actually the Grain Exchange, built 1909/10 was considered Calgary's first skyscraper, at least at the time.

[Nicko999]

Tour de la Bourse -190m-1964

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/10/Montr%C3%A9al_-_Tour_de_La_Bourse_-_20050310.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/10/Montr%C3%A9al_-_Tour_de_La_Bourse_-_20050310.jpg

http://bilan.usherbrooke.ca/voutes/voute4/boursedemontreal_2001.jpg
http://bilan.usherbrooke.ca/voutes/voute4/boursedemontreal_2001.jpg

PVM-188m-1962

http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/pvm.jpg
http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/pvm.jpg

http://www.blork.org/mondaymorning/images/pvm-night.jpg
http://www.blork.org/mondaymorning/images/pvm-night.jpg

http://www.vieux.montreal.qc.ca/plaque/horizon/gares/images/11_17.jpg
http://www.vieux.montreal.qc.ca/plaque/horizon/gares/images/11_17.jpg

CIBC-187m-1962

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2325/1802205065_b0276fee9d.jpg
Steve Brandon (http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2325/1802205065_b0276fee9d.jpg)

http://www.glasssteelandstone.com/Images/CA/PQ/YMQ/TourCIBC-002.jpg
http://www.glasssteelandstone.com/Images/CA/PQ/YMQ/TourCIBC-002.jpg

Tour Telus-140m-1962

http://fr.structurae.de/files/photos/2114/telus.jpg
http://fr.structurae.de/files/photos/2114/telus.jpg

[Vaillant]

Marriot Chateau Champlain 133M 1967
http://www.codecampmontreal.com/Images/MarriottChateauChamplain.jpg

Tour de la banque National/National bank tower 133M 1967
http://www.imtl.org/image/big/banque_nationale_500_place_d_armes.jpg

Place du Canada 113m 1967
http://www.imtl.org/image/big/DSCN2303.jpg

[alps]

I love SFU, I was pretty giddy when my friends drove me up there this summer. Vid, you're right, we will be scrambling to protect these types buildings in a decade or two.

Many of the decent examples for Halifax are university buildings. Most of the grander buildings that I immediately thought of turned out to have been completed in the 70s.

Halifax International Airport (1960)

http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w81/Hurland/i_photographs5.jpg

http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w81/Hurland/i_photographs4.jpg

http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w81/Hurland/i_photographs2.jpg

(photos: Halifax International Airport Authority) (http://www.hiaa.ca/default.asp?mn=70.1.14.65&id=190&pagesize=1&sfield=MenuId&search=65)

Technical University of Nova Scotia (1961-63)

C building (today (http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Nova+Scotia+B3L+2T5,+Canada&ll=44.641559,-63.574233&spn=0,359.980881&t=h&z=16&layer=c&cbll=44.641967,-63.575278&panoid=T02XwqF6H-pYcEiWDsEUdA&cbp=12,88.57,,2,-0.83))
http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w81/Hurland/C_ElectricalEngineering_79461.jpg

J building (today) (http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Nova+Scotia+B3L+2T5,+Canada&ll=44.642781,-63.571808&spn=0,359.980881&t=h&z=16&layer=c&cbll=44.642882,-63.571883&panoid=fcP8xTIceJckQydObS5YfQ&cbp=12,220.28,,0,-12.21)
http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w81/Hurland/J_Ext_PC1_36615.jpg

B building (today (http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Nova+Scotia+B3L+2T5,+Canada&ll=44.641453,-63.572366&spn=0,359.980881&t=h&z=16&layer=c&cbll=44.641495,-63.572237&panoid=_eMbgOxBG7SVIShD3NCdig&cbp=12,320.67,,2,-4.05))
http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w81/Hurland/B_Ext4_79454.jpg

(photos: Dal archives) (http://www.library.dal.ca/duasc/buildings/)

Public housing

http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w81/Hurland/mulgravepark-centralmortgageandhous.jpg

http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w81/Hurland/uniackesquare-centralmortgageandhou.jpg

(photos: Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation)

Dalhousie University
Killam Library
http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w81/Hurland/KillamStaircase_PC1_1912.jpg

Tupper Medical Building (today (http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Nova+Scotia,+Canada&t=h&layer=c&cbll=44.63847,-63.583952&panoid=ErwtunK8nT087u0KeP-TPg&cbp=12,352.41,,1,-12.37&ll=44.638429,-63.584104&spn=0,359.990441&z=17))
http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w81/Hurland/TupperSouthSide_PC1_214.jpg

Weldon Law Library (destroyed by fire 1986)
http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w81/Hurland/Weldon_LawLibrary_PC1_225.jpg

(photos: Dal archives) (http://www.library.dal.ca/duasc/buildings/)

[harls]

PSAC Building - Ottawa (1968)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/69/PSAC_building.JPG

source: wikipedia. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Service_Alliance_of_Canada)

I've been in this building to meet clients and it's elliptical shape makes for some interesting office layouts.

[flar]

^^One of my favourites in Ottawa.

[Coldrsx]

amazing how we have devolved

http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w81/Hurland/i_photographs4.jpg

[Gerrard]

amazing how we have devolved

http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w81/Hurland/i_photographs4.jpg

Today that lounge would be filled with people in Juicy sweats and nasty plastic chairs and smokers having nic fits.

[michael_d40]

Today that lounge would be filled with people in Juicy sweats and nasty plastic chairs and smokers having nic fits.

haha so true.

[Kevin_foster]

^ No no.. everyone would be heads down looking at their phones, browsing the internet because they've forgotten how to interact with society. :)

/ironicly I'm posting this on the internet.

[drawarc]

Edward Drake Building-Ottawa, 1961-64.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Edward_Drake_Bldng_front_1500_Riverside_Ottawa.jpg/800px-Edward_Drake_Bldng_front_1500_Riverside_Ottawa.jpg

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Drake_Building

[esquire]

What a spectacular thread. It is really quite startling to see how many of my favourite buildings in Canada fall into the category of postwar modernist.

amazing how we have devolved


Not necessarily - when that photo was taken, only the socioeconomic elite were present in that lounge. Those people can still be found waiting for planes in Esso Avitat or in the Maple Leaf Lounge.

The fact that air travel has opened up to the masses is a good thing, although I take your point that we could do with classier design in public spaces.

[MolsonExport]

Place Bonaventure, Montreal 1967 completion
http://grandquebec.com/upl-files/place_bonaventure.jpg
^grandquebec.com

At 288,000 m2 (3,100,000 sq ft) in size, Place Bonaventure was the world's largest building upon its completion in 1967


Habitat '67, Montreal
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/64/152860690_4860f7999f.jpg
farm1.static.flickr.com

[flar]

I did a photo thread on some architecture from this era a while back:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=155108

[Distill3d]

Habitat '67, Montreal
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/64/152860690_4860f7999f.jpg
farm1.static.flickr.com

I was just watching a bio-documentary on Safdie the other night. He really has produced some gems.

[Gerrard]

I love Habitat and still don't understand why this concept wasn't reproduced and expanded around the country.

[Distill3d]

I love Habitat and still don't understand why this concept wasn't reproduced and expanded around the country.

There were plans to do it in other parts of the world that lost interest or funding along the way.

[raggedy13]

Great thread.

H.R. MacMillan Space Centre/Vancouver Museum:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Van_museum_space_centre.jpg/800px-Van_museum_space_centre.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.R._MacMillan_Space_Centre

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/80/20001_%28Medium%29.JPG
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.R._MacMillan_Space_Centre

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Vancouver_The_Crab.jpg/450px-Vancouver_The_Crab.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver_Museum

[vanman]

^I was gonna post that one myself, thanks.

Thanks everybody for your contributions to this thread!

My personal favorites:

CIBC building (Mon)
Habitat 67 (Mon)
Toronto City Hall
Guiness Tower (Van)
CN Tower (Edm)

[vanman]

A few more buildings from Vancouver:

Blue Horizon Hotel
(1967)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v643/vannmann/3927159871_94304cd6bf_b.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/19595574@N02/3927159871/sizes/l/

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v643/vannmann/tilesonFlickr-PhotoSharing_12581974.png
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hambox/458028757/

Qube (formerly the Westcoast Transmission Building)
(1969)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v643/vannmann/3283183779_e4b9ce3557_b.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/entheos_fog/3283183779/sizes/l/

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v643/vannmann/3208550959_d7066f6979_b.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cabbit/3208550959/sizes/l/

East Asiatic House
(1963)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v643/vannmann/3705859091_e09e5677d1_b.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mag3737/3705859091/sizes/l/

Ocean Towers
(1960)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v643/vannmann/2424447826_648ce09f7b_b.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/uncle_buddha/2424447826/sizes/l/

900 West Hastings
(1966)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v643/vannmann/3446985872_565108f512_b.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/uncle_buddha/3446985872/

[ReginaGuy]

I've always really liked the SaskPower building in Regina

http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/3968/3736159374c87dab3af9b.jpg (http://img502.imageshack.us/i/3736159374c87dab3af9b.jpg/)
Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pox-orbit/3736159374/sizes/l/

http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/2442/733586153392b0b0e30o.jpg (http://img22.imageshack.us/i/733586153392b0b0e30o.jpg/)
Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/carlcarl/733586153/sizes/o/

[sammo]

found this interesting pic of a toronto proposal (from back in the 60's).
not built of course, but i'm kinda of shocked at such a bold development. looks like 70, 80 storey monsters! wow, very ambitious. (what were we/they thinking?)
http://www.tobuilt.ca/php/Buildingimages/EatonCentreProposalR1.jpg
not sure of the exact source -was posted by Mike in TO at UT.

[Wooster]

You see this building quite a bit in the new show 'V'

I like it.



http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v643/vannmann/3838940026_1c5a9556f3_b.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/uncle_buddha/3838940026/sizes/l/

[Blader]

found this interesting pic of a toronto proposal (from back in the 60's).
not built of course, but i'm kinda of shocked at such a bold development. looks like 70, 80 storey monsters! wow, very ambitious. (what were we/they thinking?)
http://www.tobuilt.ca/php/Buildingimages/EatonCentreProposalR1.jpg
not sure of the exact source -was posted by Mike in TO at UT.
Look what they planned to leave of the beautiful old city hall - just the spire!!

[Ayreonaut]

Meh, I would accept those.