Ottawa /Materials/Reuse Walking Tour Leaflet
The buildings and landscapes of Parliament Hill OTTAWA/ • STARTING POINT were built with a wide range of stones from both local quarries and imported sources. Our understanding of the provenance of the stones of Parliament serve MATERIAL/ to tell the stories of these highly symbolic buildings and to locate sources for the repairs, replacements RE-USE/ and additions that are a part of conservation work. The East Block and Wellington Wall showcase the WALKING TOUR original range of coloured lime- and sandstone from Ontario and New York State, which were a part of a > Starting point polychromatic Gothic Revival design, uniting all the Ottawa Art Gallery, 50 Mackenzie Bridge buildings on the Hill. The first Parliament buildings > End point were all roofed in coloured slates from Vermont, however these were eventually all replaced with the Canadian War Museum, 1 Vimy Place copper now associated with the Hill. The West Block stones were recently cleaned and repointed, likely HERITAGE IN REVERSE establishing the future appearance of stone on the Material Values, Waste and Deconstruction Hill. Across Wellington, the building that houses the Symposium Prime Minister’s Office and Privy Council is made Oct. 26 – 27, 2018, Carleton University of contrasting olive-shaded sandstone from New Brunswick. The new Ottawa Art Gallery, designed by KPMB, Toronto, with Barry Padolsky, Ottawa (2018), illustrates a form of modern spolia, where historic materials from one site are relocated and reused at another. The Firestone Collection of Canadian Art housed in the OAG was collected by O.J. and Isabel Firestone, and originally displayed in the Firestone House, itself a fine example of Modernist architecture (Sam Gitterman, 1960).
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