Posts tagged architecture
What's that golfball?
My favourite blog, Expolounge, uses the medium of film to explain the history of that giant golfball at Parc Jean-Drapeau - otherwise known as the United States Pavilion of Expo 67 or the Montreal Biosphère. The Biosphère is an environmental museum managed by the federal Government of Canada and is focussed on the ecosystem of the Saint-Lawrence River. It’s worth checking out.
Université de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
Historic 1928 PhotoThis photo is just amazing. This complex was built with nothing around it. Compare to this modern-day Google Maps aerial view.
Caption from Art Deco digital collection at McGill:
A photograph of the Université de Montréal campus in an aerial view, ca. 1928.
Architect Ernest Cormier (1885-1980) is well-known for his central complex of buildings at the Université de Montréal, considered to be of Art Deco design. It is a composition of simple forms of planes and surfaces in successive relief, emphasizing vertical lines. The light buff vitrified brick has trimmings of Missisquoi marble.
Cormier’s former house on Pine Avenue in Montreal is one of the finest examples of Art Deco homes in the world.
Student Papers Collection, Rare Books and Special Collections
