The City Series No. 6: Capital Wire Cloth Company Building

Camera: Kiev 4a, f2 50mm Jupiter lens. Armstrong and Hinton, Ottawa, ON.

This is a cool old factory around the corner from our house. Once the lone factory in a suburban area, it operated as such until the mid 70s, when it was converted into commercial space. Since then, it has been a home to various organizations, mostly creative, including Hinton Studios, the animation studio that made The Raccoons in the 1980s and 90s. This is also one of the few buildings left that exemplifies industrial activity in Ottawa. Other buildings, such as the foundry that once sat where my house does now, are long gone.

Comments

[david]

grainy and vintage feeling...excellent.

[sherri]

This has every element I like in a structure shot. The corner of the building, a multitude of windows, and power lines.

[Otto K.]

It doesn't seem to be a creative locale. Maybe the drab exterior actually helps the creative juices.