1957 – Bear Pit, Assiniboine Park Zoo, Winnipeg
Architect: Smith Carter Katelnikoff
Absolutely impossible to think that a concrete enclosure such as this could be built in a zoo today.
1957 – Former Canadian Bank of Commerce, Portage Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Architect: Green Blankstein Russell
Purpose built bank branch after a fire razed the previous building on the site.
1957 – Foster Marks Building, 280 Smith Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Architect: Moody & Moore
Part of a row of three Modernist buildings from the 1950s and ’60s.
1957 – Sovereign Life Assurance, 287 Broadway, Winnipeg
Architect: Moody & Moore
Now unrecognizable after the addition of two floors and recladding in two renovations since the late 1960s.
1958 – Bank of Montreal, Pembina Highway, Winnipeg
Architect: Moody Moore and Partners
Small modernist bank with expressed structure infilled with glass and red brick.
1958 – Chapel, St. John’s College, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg
Architect: Moody & Moore
One of the founding colleges of the University of Manitoba,
1958 – Competition design for City Hall, Memorial Boulevard, Winnipeg
Architect: Gerald Robinson
One of the finalists selected by the jury in the 1958 competition.
1958 – Former B’nay Abraham Synagogue, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Architect: Kanarski
Bnay Abraham Synagogue started in 1916 as a free loan and sick benefit society with a medical plan and death benefits for its members.
1958 – Former Canada Post Building, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Architect: Green, Blankstein, Russell Associates
Horrendous building with little or no human scale or charm.
1958 – Former Toronto-Dominion Bank, 274 Smith Street, Winnipeg
Architect: John A. Chivers
Small modernist bank,
