Relevé Ottawa [400 Albert St] | 78/98m | 23/29f | Completed - Page 35

urbanforest · #**681** Posted **Mar 9, 2024, 2:55 PM**

Looks like urbottawa and I took almost the same walk yesterday. Here are a few more:

Har13 · #**682** Posted **Mar 10, 2024, 5:17 AM**

Wow. Cant believe this is in ottawa.

eltodesukane · #**683** Posted **Mar 10, 2024, 10:39 AM**

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Originally Posted by Har13

Wow. Cant believe this is in ottawa.

Reminds me of Pinnacle One Yonge in Toronto
https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threads/to...pinnacle-hariri-pontarini.17920/page-424

OTownandDown · #**684** Posted **Mar 11, 2024, 3:10 PM**

We haven't graduated yet to curving IGU's, unfortunately (cough *Icon* cough)

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Originally Posted by eltodesukane

Reminds me of Pinnacle One Yonge in Toronto
https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threads/to...pinnacle-hariri-pontarini.17920/page-424

J.OT13 · #**685** Posted **Mar 11, 2024, 3:16 PM**

That Toronto example has actual curved glass and panels.

I'm not really bothered by it though. From afar, you can't tell it's not curved glass on Relevé. Even from up close, it's not bad at all.

Harley613 · #**686** Posted **Mar 11, 2024, 3:42 PM**

Is the Social Sciences building the only building in the NCR with curved glass?

J.OT13 · #**687** Posted **Mar 11, 2024, 3:52 PM**

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Originally Posted by Harley613

Is the Social Sciences building the only building in the NCR with curved glass?

Does the Ogilvy Department Store replica façade have curved glass? The original (up until the 50s or 60s) had it.

Performance Court is individual flat panels forming a curve.

I thought some store fronts on bank had them, but maybe not.

I'm drawing a blank.

Badyouken · #**688** Posted **Mar 11, 2024, 4:28 PM**

I feel like there's 1-2 buildings in the Market with curved glass, but could be wrong.

J.OT13 · #**689** Posted **Mar 11, 2024, 5:34 PM**

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Originally Posted by Badyouken

I feel like there's 1-2 buildings in the Market with curved glass, but could be wrong.

Maybe more common on older commercial buildings. We don't have that same attention to detail and skillset nowadays.

pico · #**690** Posted **Mar 11, 2024, 9:41 PM**

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Originally Posted by Harley613

Is the Social Sciences building the only building in the NCR with curved glass?

Oresta store on Wellington st. West. Can’t think of another one.

harls · #**691** Posted **Mar 11, 2024, 10:00 PM**

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Originally Posted by Harley613

Is the Social Sciences building the only building in the NCR with curved glass?

Museum of History? I though there were no right angles on that thing.

Edit. Guess not, now that I look at it.

Harley613 · #**692** Posted **Mar 11, 2024, 10:06 PM**

The new entrance of the Bell Building is curved...but with flat panels. Same with Claridge Plaza. Same with the top of Performance Court. Same with Cathedral Hill's balconies. I am seriously wondering now

Harley613 · #**693** Posted **Mar 11, 2024, 10:06 PM**

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Originally Posted by pico

Oresta store on Wellington st. West. Can’t think of another one.

Oooh good find! I'm on a mission to find others now.

GeneralLea · #**694** Posted **Mar 12, 2024, 3:26 AM**

Hm.....this may be cheating as this is a renovation, but 160 Elgin seems to have curved glass on its entrance facing Ottawa Regional Rd 91

Harley613 · #**695** Posted **Mar 12, 2024, 3:34 AM**

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Originally Posted by GeneralLeeTPHLS

Hm.....this may be cheating as this is a renovation, but 160 Elgin seems to have curved glass on its entrance facing Ottawa Regional Rd 91

My daughter and I stood under the glass wall this afternoon and were trying to determine if the glass panes themselves were curved. We decided no, but feel free to prove us wrong. They seem to be flat panels with a subtle angle change in the framing, like so many other glass 'curves' in Ottawa. The Shaw Centre is probably the best example of flat glass being manipulated into curves.

GeneralLea · #**696** Posted **Mar 12, 2024, 6:25 AM**

You've already proven me wrong then.

Ottawacurious · #**697** Posted **Mar 12, 2024, 10:55 AM**

160 Elgin facade - more detail than wanted perhaps?
https://www.glassonweb.com/article/ahead-curve-innovative-cold-bent-insulated-glass-entry-wall

Harley613 · #**698** Posted **Mar 12, 2024, 1:17 PM**

Well there you go, they are indeed (very subtly) curved!!

J.OT13 · #**699** Posted **Mar 12, 2024, 4:21 PM**

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Originally Posted by Ottawacurious

160 Elgin facade - more detail than wanted perhaps?
https://www.glassonweb.com/article/ahead-curve-innovative-cold-bent-insulated-glass-entry-wall

Thanks for finding this. Interesting stuff.

Place Bell has always been one of my favourite buildings in Ottawa. The previous entrance itself was quite nice. I honestly thought it had been done sometime over the last decade (Gen Y talk for early 2000s). I do wonder what the entrance looked like when the tower was built.

ServiceGuy · #**700** Posted **Mar 15, 2024, 1:13 PM**

Looks like someone isn't very good at playing Tetris.

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