1949 – Inkster School, Inkster Boulevard, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Built to a fairly standard design used throughout the 1940s and early 1950s in Winnipeg, Inkster School is a single story building with a taller entrance bay.
Built to a fairly standard design used throughout the 1940s and early 1950s in Winnipeg, Inkster School is a single story building with a taller entrance bay.
Built to a standardised design used by the city, and not far from a similar design at Rockwood School. The building has a central entrance-way with further entrances to the ends of the main block.
Constructed as the Western Savings and Loan in 1950, and later extended in 1957 with the addition of extra floors.
Considered one of the finest examples of modernist architecture in the city, this brick-and-glass structure incorporates some of the same design elements used in the Barcelona Pavilion.
Designed as a corporate headquarters for Great West Life Assurance after they outgrew their Lombard Street premises,
Interesting two storey office building in a Miesian idiom. The end wall of the building which encloses the set back entrance is built in perforated blocks creating texture and allowing light through.
One of the founding colleges of the University of Manitoba, St. John’s was originally based downtown,
Bnay Abraham Synagogue started in 1916 as a free loan and sick benefit society with a medical plan and death benefits for its members.
Horrendous building with little or no human scale or charm. What is most upsetting about this building which occupies an entire block is that the previous Post Office building was a fine brick and stone edifice on nearby Portage Avenue.
Built between 1956-58 to to replace an earlier church of 1927, this modern building is constructed of the local Tyndall stone and brick.