1962 – Former Canadian Wheat Board, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Designed by Smith Carter Searle Architects to co-exist with the original and adjacent building of 1928 using the same window rhythm and sizing,
Designed by Smith Carter Searle Architects to co-exist with the original and adjacent building of 1928 using the same window rhythm and sizing,
Appropriately looking like a vast piece of electrical equiplent,
One of the architects from the OPW was Oscar Leech who was also responsible for the Film Censor’s Office on Harcourt Terrace in Dublin.
Sitting on a three-acre site, Marina City is referred to as “the city within a city,”
Construction of the two edifices,
Constructed for Norwich Union in the early 1960s, built on a vacant WWII bomb site.
Extended in the 1980s, the addition of two aisles meant a chunkier roof with the addition of two less acutely angle roofs intersecting the original simple form.
Our Lady’s Bower was established by the sisters of La Sainte Union des Sacre Coeurs in 1884 and operated until June 2014 as a boarding and day school.
The building faces south and is a five story concrete and glass structure over a podium on a steeply sloping site.
Royal Exchange Assurance built their first building on this site in 1880 to designs by T.N.