1964 – Former Safeway, Ellice Avenue, Winnipeg
One of quite a few stores to a similar design in Winnipeg, this Safeway store finally closed in December 2008. This standard design had some variations,
One of quite a few stores to a similar design in Winnipeg, this Safeway store finally closed in December 2008. This standard design had some variations,
Optimistic modernism for a multistorey carpark nestled in behind older buildings. This is a boldly extravagent statement for a relatively mundane structure type.
One of quite a few stores to a similar design still in use in Winnipeg, this Safeway store also has fine roadside signage from the same period.
Located across the street from the Civic Centre from the same period,
On December 21 1964, Winnipeg City Council awarded a contract for the construction of the new Public Safety Building and Civic Parkade on land directly west of the City Hall at a cost of $4.8 million.
The present St. Nicholas Church was designed in the early nineteen sixties by the architectural firm of Green Blankstein Russell Associates.
The Manitoba Centennial Centre was a project begun in the 1960s aimed at reinvigorating the downtown.
Large office building above a podium storey. The rectangular grid of the prefabricated cladding is pleasing to the viewer,
These are the fourth and fifth churches built on this site since 1818. The fourth church or cathedral was built in 1908 and destroyed by fire in 1968.
Perhaps local architect Étienne Gaboury’s best-known work, the Église du Précieux-Sang in St. Boniface was completed in 1967.