Camera: Kiev 4, 35mm Jupiter lens. Sparks Street and Kent Street, Ottawa, ON.
The hideous addition to the Bank of Canada, as seen from the rear. The original Bank of Canada building, enclosed within, is a pleasing, Art Deco building befitting of the architecture of a capital city. The addition is a hideous glass and metal contraption that completely dwarves the original building, and is in keeping with quality suburban office towers somewhere near you.
In Atlanta, developers would have bulldozed the art deco building and put up some poorly and hastily constructed condos, while the bank moved to a new suburban office building. I'm not sure which is worse. Thanks for sharing this abomination.
Posted by: SD (Aspherical) | January 08, 2009 at 11:04 PM
Well captured
Posted by: Olivier Jules | December 29, 2008 at 06:01 PM
So let me get this straight...they had a nice art-deco building and proceeded to encapsulate it with an exoskeleton of glass and steel? I do not mind glass and steel, but you don't debase historic structures with it. How weird. In the US someone would've put that building on the Historic Registry where they couldn't have done that.
Anyway, interesting photo. I wouldn't have been able to tell what was going on without the description but that just made it more intriguing.
It's sad. I have a hard enough time when a turn of the century Piggly Wiggly store or tool & die shop is stripped of its character and converted into art galleries or lofts. This really would have pissed me off.
Posted by: Dustin | December 29, 2008 at 12:06 PM