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I had a lot of good times at the Verdun Auditorium. Lots of great shows in the eighties and early nineties. My wild oats days.
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Verdun Auditorium was beautifully done. Too bad they didn't do the same with the Forum (if anything is left under all that metal siding).
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Old Posted Sep 27, 2020, 7:16 PM
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Not many clear pictures of this but there's a street corner in Halifax with 2 restoration-like projects happening:


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The building on the right is pretty interesting. It was built out of concrete in 1916. It is in rough shape; the storefronts were bricked over, the panel detailing was covered, and some of the roof details had been removed because they had deteriorated and were at risk of falling off. I'm looking forward to seeing this one completed.

The 3 storey Art Deco one is connected to another restoration project, the Green Lantern building:

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Then across the street, the former NFB building facade.


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Old Posted Sep 29, 2020, 8:23 PM
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The restoration of the house of Father of Confederation Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine has been completed in downtown Montreal.

It was scandalously left in ruins for many years.

Today it is mostly surrounded by skyscrapers in the CBD.

https://www.ledevoir.com/culture/586...nfin-restauree
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Part of the restored storefron of 1 Yorkville.



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They really did do an fantastic job on the storefront rehab at 1 Yorkville.
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Update on Centre Block restoration.

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The Two Towers: Uncovering Centre Block’s lost foundations

February 3, 2021

In February 2019, the Senate moved to the Senate of Canada Building, a former train station built in 1912. The Senate will occupy this temporary location while Parliament’s Centre Block — the Senate’s permanent home — is rehabilitated.

Although Centre Block is shuttered for rehabilitation work, Canadians can still experience its art and architecture through the Senate’s immersive virtual tour.



Parliament Hill’s original Centre Block, with its Victoria Tower, in 1880. (Photo credit: Library and Archives Canada)


The midwinter fire in 1916 left Centre Block a charred, ice-encrusted shell. (Photo credit: Library and Archives Canada)

On February 3, 1916, flames engulfed Centre Block and raced up the landmark Victoria Tower. As the clocktower bells struck midnight, the spire came crashing down.

The next day, engineers assessed the smouldering ruins.

The Library of Parliament had miraculously survived but the rest of the structure was beyond salvaging.

By September of that year, Centre Block had been torn down and the last traces of the first tower to grace Parliament Hill disappeared.

A little over a century later, excavation work has uncovered vestiges of the original structure where the Peace Tower now stands: the limestone foundation of the Victoria Tower.

“The new Centre Block was built from the ground up, during wartime, essentially in four years,” said Derek Mes, Structural Project Manager for the Centre Block Rehabilitation Program, which is being delivered by Public Services and Procurement Canada.

“They removed the original foundation where it prevented them reaching bedrock. Where it wasn’t in the way, they just cast the new concrete foundation right against the old limestone one.”


The Victoria Tower foundation contains ventilation shafts that brought air into Centre Block. (Photo credit: Public Services and Procurement Canada).

The rediscovery of the Victoria Tower’s foundation came during the biggest heritage rehabilitation project in Canada’s history, and the building’s first comprehensive upgrade since it was constructed in the wake of the 1916 fire.

Two ambitious additions — a sophisticated earthquake-defence system and an underground Visitor Welcome Centre that will connect West Block, Centre Block and East Block — have turned Parliament Hill into a massive excavation zone.

Queen Victoria had selected Ottawa as the nation’s permanent capital in 1858 and, in 1867, the Mother of Confederation signed into law the bill that made Canada a country in its own right.

The Victoria Tower, topped with a crown-shaped turret, honoured Canada’s queen. When its spire was completed in 1873, the tower soared to a height of 55 metres, dominating Ottawa’s skyline.

Its replacement was named the Peace Tower on the suggestion of architect John Pearson, who had conceived it as a tribute to Canadian soldiers lost in the First World War.

It was sleek and imposing, a full 43 metres taller than its predecessor and featuring a 54-tonne, 53-bell carillon inspired by the church bells of Flanders, where 15,000 Canadians had died.


The Library of Parliament is the only part of the original 1866 Centre Block still standing after the unstable shell of Centre Block was demolished in the summer of 1916. (Photo credit: Library and Archives Canada)

Its intricately sculpted façade showcased symbols that honoured the 50-year-old nation of Canada and its wartime sacrifices, including owls, maple leaves and the sombre figure of a soldier grieving his fallen comrades.

It was while excavating under the entrance to the Peace Tower in the summer of 2020 that archeologists working for Centrus, the lead designer for the Centre Block Rehabilitation Program, discovered remnants of the old Victoria Tower foundation next to the four pillars supporting the Peace Tower.

Workers also found ventilation shafts that had once drawn fresh air into the building.

“You can still see some where they emerge along the escarpment behind Parliament Hill,” said Mr. Mes. “There are a few of these portals with beautifully preserved ornamental stonework.”

This time, all remnants of the Victoria Tower foundation will need to be removed.

“They’re in the way of getting down to bedrock,” Mr. Mes said. “The bedrock will need to be accessed to build the Visitor Welcome Centre.”

However, workers will keep exhaustive records of archeological finds as they emerge.

“On any archeological dig, there are two options — preservation in situ or preservation by record,” said Mr. Mes.

“For the old Victoria Tower, there’s no option but preservation by record. A huge effort goes into recording the foundation for historical record purposes, including photographs, drawings, written descriptions, mapping, and 3-D scanning.”


A section of the uncovered original Victoria Tower foundation under the portico at the base of the Peace Tower.


Excavation takes place on Centre Block’s foundation in the fall of 2020.

Better quality images available at original source: https://sencanada.ca/en/sencaplus/ho...t-foundations/
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Ferme Columbia in Gatineau. The stone building was built in 1835 by the founder of Hull (then known as Wrightsville), Philemon Wright. The building will be restored, with a new 20 storey condo tower built behind.






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I went by these the other day - very glad they are being restored but there is a disney-fied vibe that slightly bothers me. It's in Toronto on Ossington Ave.

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this has sat for over 30yrs rotting away nice surprize to see it getting fixed up
smaller building was fixed up a few years ago




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I went by these the other day - very glad they are being restored but there is a disney-fied vibe that slightly bothers me. It's in Toronto on Ossington Ave.

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Better that they’re taken care of than not, but yeah, the storefronts are a bit Disneyfied, and not architecturally in keeping with the buildings as a whole.
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It's unusual to have these sorts of historic buildings so set-back from the street. That also adds to the Disneyfication. Restoration, but looks like facadism.
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I would take Disneyland over the nastiness that was underneath it any day.
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Looks like they were trying to create a sense of variety at street level, while maximizing window space for business tenants. It's a rather strange block of buildings for Toronto, to begin with.


@1ajs, nice to see the Salvation Army Citadel coming back to some sort of life.
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I would take Disneyland over the nastiness that was underneath it any day.
Same, most looked like horrible 1950's designs except for the 2 on the right. 100x better now.
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They look nice, but it's definitely not S. Ontario vernacular architecture.
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They look nice, but it's definitely not S. Ontario vernacular architecture.
Do you mean the way it was restored or the actual buildings? My guess is these were originally commercial properties that were converted to residential and are now going back again. There are lots of buildings like this lining S. Ontario's main commercial streets (like the neighbours to the left and across the street).
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