maybe edmonton

An attempt to fall in love with Edmonton, Alberta (plus added diversions)

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Apr29

mastermaq: (via This Is Edmonton: Architectural Icons | Spacing Edmonton) “Edmonton is not a city of iconic design and architecture. There are few if any structures here that could seriously be put forth as ‘iconic’ on a world scale, and that’s fine. Edmonton is a pragmatic city, perpetually a place to get things done. Edmonton is a place to build structures which serve a purpose rather than to build magnificent edifices which serve as monuments to vanity or capitalism. Despite this, Edmonton contains an amazing stock of interesting and unique structures as beautiful as they are practical.”

mastermaq:

(via This Is Edmonton: Architectural Icons | Spacing Edmonton)

“Edmonton is not a city of iconic design and architecture. There are few if any structures here that could seriously be put forth as ‘iconic’ on a world scale, and that’s fine. Edmonton is a pragmatic city, perpetually a place to get things done. Edmonton is a place to build structures which serve a purpose rather than to build magnificent edifices which serve as monuments to vanity or capitalism. Despite this, Edmonton contains an amazing stock of interesting and unique structures as beautiful as they are practical.”

16 notes #edmonton #alberta #yeg #canada #Architecture

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View across Churchill Square towards the new civic buildings in Edmonton, Alberta, 1972. The other day I was walking past these buildings and noticed some stone fragments placed in front of them - they were the intricate & lovely old archways, capstones, & window-frames of the buildings they had knocked down to make way for these Brutalist monstrosities. Sad, Edmonton, sad.

View across Churchill Square towards the new civic buildings in Edmonton, Alberta, 1972.

The other day I was walking past these buildings and noticed some stone fragments placed in front of them - they were the intricate & lovely old archways, capstones, & window-frames of the buildings they had knocked down to make way for these Brutalist monstrosities. Sad, Edmonton, sad.

1 notes #brutalist #Architecture #edmonton #alberta #civic buildings

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“1881 SchoolAddress: Located in park next to McKay Avenue SchoolYear: 1881 This is the first ‘official’ school in Alberta. After the McKay Avenue School was opened, this structure was sold and moved down the hill to the river valley. The house was almost lost in the floods of 1915, but survived after someone tethered it to a large tree. The building was later moved to its present site, and serves as a living museum.”

“1881 School
Address: Located in park next to McKay Avenue School
Year: 1881

This is the first ‘official’ school in Alberta. After the McKay Avenue School was opened, this structure was sold and moved down the hill to the river valley. The house was almost lost in the floods of 1915, but survived after someone tethered it to a large tree. The building was later moved to its present site, and serves as a living museum.”

1 notes #Edmonton #schools #Architecture

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“Built in 1913 by Alexander Pantages and George Brown, the Pantages Vaudeville Theatre hosted such great entertainers as the Marx Brothers, Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, and others. In 1931, the theatre was renamed The Strand…Although the building was designated a Provincial Historic Site in 1976, it was dismantled in 1979 by the First Northern Building Corporation, who had purchased the site twenty years earlier.”

“Built in 1913 by Alexander Pantages and George Brown, the Pantages Vaudeville Theatre hosted such great entertainers as the Marx Brothers, Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, and others. In 1931, the theatre was renamed The Strand…Although the building was designated a Provincial Historic Site in 1976, it was dismantled in 1979 by the First Northern Building Corporation, who had purchased the site twenty years earlier.”

#Edmonton #theatres #architecture