I found this info on Westinghouse but not sure which year that particular building was built though.
1897 - First Westinghouse manufacturing operation outside of the United Sates was established in Hamilton, Ontario. 1905 - A second Westinghouse plant is constructed in Hamilton, the early role of this facility was the manufacture of motors and generators of less than 50 horsepower. |
Definitely after 1905.
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The style didn't look those ages to me either. The style looks later to me.
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There's a time capsule on the front of the building. I can't remember what year it was, however.
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It was built in 1917. The top two stories were added in 1928.
From Hamilton's Heritage Vol. 5: Designed by the predecessor of Prack & Prack, architects of the Pigott Building (1929) and the Lister Block (1923), the building is representative of the industrial office buildings designed by Canadian architects in the early 20th century. The Westinghouse head office was an attractive and functional building designed to accommodate the company’s needs as well as to project a successful corporate image. The advanced reinforced concrete construction is expressed in the grid-like composition of the building’s two end sections. Emphasis is given to the top and bottom floors, through the use of a decorative stone cornice, string courses, and arched window and door surrounds with prominent keystones. Another noteworthy feature of the original design was the suspended ornamental metal canopy over the main entrance doorway (removed in 1969 or 1970). Decorative plaques between the arched openings of the first storey feature the Westinghouse initials. |
I changed the name of this thread to "Big empty buildings"
We can continue to talk about big empty buildings here since there are quite a few. |
And when was the federal building built? To be honest that actually looks very modern, which is why I'm shocked that it's empty.
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Federal building was the 1950's. 1955 or 1951 I believe.
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The mix of brick and cream concrete "stonework" makes that building actually look like something built in a much more modern style. Such a shame it was abandoned. I wonder why. |
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hamilton place, central library, that building across from st. joes hospital could all be considered Brutalist. http://www.raisethehammer.org/index.asp?id=097 http://www.ontarioarchitecture.com/Brutalist.htm |
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Thanks! |
Well this is unfortunately from the 60s, it's where I went to university, but it was inspired by buildings from the time and was a common style in the late 50s and 60s. I found this photo on movie-locations.com as the site has been used in a number of 60s and 70s film shoots.
http://www.movie-locations.com/movie...ork_brunel.gif Grey, drab, ugly, depressing. All of our prospectus photos showed the building through the branches of trees. I believe they've encouraged ivy to grow all over it now. |
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Depressing that they'd just abandon the building and waste more public money building somewhere newer and probably uglier. |
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I was disappointed not one post to my thread, http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=158040. Either those interested applied and wanted to keep it quiet to avoid competition, or this forum is much more talk than action. I honestly don't know which, but I'm quickly formulating an opinion. |
thanks for the links. With so many threads on this site, it's easy to miss some.
I'd love to join, but have been invited to join the Gore Park planning committee and have been involved in my community council along with meetings at city hall about LRT. I've got no time for anything else on my plate. |
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