The Great Canadian City Hall Thread!

[Architype]

Vancouver's Old City Hall:

Posted by flight from kamakura
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[michael_d40]

Saint John City Hall,
(Its the building to the left with the 3 colors at the front doors)

[Rico Rommheim]

Originally Posted by michael_d40

Saint John City Hall,
(Its the building to the left with the 3 colors at the front doors)

wow that shot is insane, I now start to see St John in a whole new way!!

[Ruckus]

Saskatoon City Hall - 1935

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And Saskatoon's present day City Hall, a presentation of less than mediocre architecture.


Source - chow_cheh_wah (Flickr)


Source - Angie Geworsky/Richard Klassen (Flickr)


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[Millstone]

Originally Posted by vid

That's a gem, 11/17 squares & Trans-Canada shield assembly.

[mylesmalley]

There's a definite theme here... seems it's almost a necessity to have a great big clock on your city hall.

Makes me wonder why Moncton doesn't have one... though we do have our concrete stonehenge...

[Only The Lonely..]

St.Boniface's old city hall.


It is now the constituency office for Councilor Vandal I believe.

Also included, a postcard of Winnipeg's old city hall


As well as the city hall Winnipeg almost built in the 1930's.

[Ruckus]

Originally Posted by Only The Lonely..

So I take it Winnipeg's old City Hall was demolished...City Hall is to the right in this photo, correct? I quite like it.

[someone123]

Originally Posted by Only The Lonely..

As well as the city hall Winnipeg almost built in the 1930's.

Interesting design. Too bad it wasn't built.

I kind of like the Modernist city hall. The oldest one looks a bit gaudy.

[BrannyMuffin]

Regina's first City Hall.
From the City of Regina archives

[BrannyMuffin]

Moost Jaw City Hall....I believe this building is still used as City Hall.
From daryl_mitchell on Flickr.

[youngregina]

^^^^^ thats the exact same design as reginas 2nd city hall.

[BrannyMuffin]

Originally Posted by youngregina

^^^^^ thats the exact same design as reginas 2nd city hall.

Pretty much. That's probably because they were both post offices originally. I'd venture to guess that there are plenty of buildings across Canada that are quite similar. Regina's city hall was only in that building for a short time (I think it was a couple of years) while the current building was being built.

[rapid_business]

Yeah, funny you say that. I took a picture of the post office in downtown Cambridge today, and though how much it looked like the one on Whyte Ave. in Edmonton (which use to be the downtown for the city of Strathcona). Cut and paste across the country, eh?

[CCF]

Originally Posted by BrannyMuffin

Regina's first City Hall.
From the City of Regina archives

And somehow we allowed this to be demolished.

[BrannyMuffin]

Originally Posted by CCF

And somehow we allowed this to be demolished.

Yeah, but wasn't it unsafe?

[vid]

IIRC, Winnipeg's city hall was in very bad shape, which led to its demolition.

Originally Posted by onishenko

Yeah, funny you say that. I took a picture of the post office in downtown Cambridge today, and though how much it looked like the one on Whyte Ave. in Edmonton (which use to be the downtown for the city of Strathcona). Cut and paste across the country, eh?

They had one architect make a few designs and used those over and over again, especially during the depression to save costs when building the post offices, which were usually make-work projects. I'm pretty sure the post office on Court Street here has a few replicas across the country as well. In many cases, it could be the same architect just tweaking a former design. Many court houses in the US have very similar (but not exact) designs, as they were from the same architect.



Port Arthur's former post office, now a federal government building.

[Mordack]

Can't believe nobody's posted Kingston's city hall yet.


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seaside_ron - flickr

sjgardiner - flickr

The backside of City Hall. In the winter the market square is converted into an outdoor rink.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tyner/314573505/
David Tyner - flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jdb99/4440661/
JDB99 - flickr

The last two are my favourite, sorry I couldnt get them on here for some reason.

[Only The Lonely..]

Originally Posted by someone123

Interesting design. Too bad it wasn't built.

I kind of like the Modernist city hall. The oldest one looks a bit gaudy.

The old Gingerbread city hall was definitely a landmark and was just as much a part of Winnipeg and Winnipeg folklore as the Golden Boy, Salisbury House Nips and -40 degree winters.

It stills plays an important role in the psyche of Winnipegger's. As you can see, the old city hall is featured prominently in the forefront of this recent mural.




While it has never been 'beautiful' in the traditional sense, the new city hall has always fascinated me. The building very much represents the idealism of the 60's.

For its time, it represented the state of the art in architecture and had no less lofty a goal than the complete revitalization of the area around it.

People back then weren't so afraid to take risks

[Only The Lonely..]

Originally Posted by SASKFTW

So I take it Winnipeg's old City Hall was demolished...City Hall is to the right in this photo, correct? I quite like it.

Yes, that's right.