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A limestone church with a gabled roof, a gothic gable vent, and two lancet windows on either side of a pointed arch front door reached by a set of stairs.

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2021/SEP/23

OAA

Heritage Hall

Location: Guelph Date of Completion: 1880 Architect: William Slater Date of Renovation/Addition: 2020 Architect of Renovation/Addition: Joel Bartlett Architect Inc. Nominated by: Mike Schreiner, MPP...

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queens park pick

heritage hall

queens park pick 2021

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2017/OCT/02

Ontario Association of Architects

Canadian Club Brand Heritage C...

Location: Windsor (formerly Walkerville) Date of Completion: 1894 Architect: Mason and Rice (USA) Nominated by: Percy Hatfield, MPP (Windsor-Tecumseh) Sitting on the Canadian shore of the...

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queens park pick

Dominion Wheel and Foundries Company Manufacturing Complex

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2021/OCT/04

OAA

Dominion Wheel and Foundries C...

Location: Toronto Date of Completion: 1917-1929 Architect: N/A Nominated by: Suze Morrison, MPP (Toronto Centre) “The property is a landmark within the West Don...

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dominion wheel and foundries company manufacturing

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queens park pick

queens park pick 2021

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2015/OCT/30

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Barbara A. Humphreys

Today we continue our special blOAAg’s series “Women in Architecture – Ontario” by highlighting the career of an Ontario architect that has been described as “the...

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Women in Architecture

Heritage

Article (text and images)

2016/JAN/11

21840

Carnegie Libraries

“Take away all unnecessary decorations, overmantels, over-counters, partitions, mock marble pillars and large hallways, and plan a well-proportioned room with books on the walls, small and few...

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Library

Heritage

Beaux Art

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2015/SEP/05

21840

Press Building

Photo Credit : Illustration of the Press Building (formerly Administration Building) as part of the 1928 CNE programme. CNE HeritageArchitectural Credit : George Wallace Gouinlock While the Scadding...

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Canadian National Exhibition

Heritage

Toronto

blOAAG Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts (2014)

Article (text and images)

2016/OCT/03

Ontario Association of Architects

Isabel Bader Centre for the Pe...

Location: Queen's University, Kingston Architects: N45 Architecture Inc. in association with Snøhetta Architecture Design Planning P.C. Date of completion: 2014 Nominated...

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adaptive reuse

Article (text and images)

2016/JAN/30

21840

Library of Parliament (1876)

Canada has a love for libraries. In Toronto alone, more people visit the Toronto public library system every year than the top ten most popular attractions combined – this includes Air Canada...

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Library

Heritage

Ottawa

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2015/SEP/05

21840

Dufferin Gate

Photo Credit : Toronto Modern, https://robertmoffatt115.wordpress.com/2011/06/17/exhibition-place-goes-modernist/Architectural Credit : Philip R. Brook The original main entrance to the exhibition...

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Canadian National Exhibition

Heritage

Modernism

Toronto

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