Video from the ACO Toronto Speaker Series May 20, 2021 session ON Deconstruction.
Tag: Demolition/Destruction
Berlin’s rubble photography
The photograph was taken with limited knowledge of the site’s specific role in the city’s history. Nevertheless, it has had the capacity to evoke all that was buried in the fabric of the city, the construction, destruction, upheaval and rebuilding, concealed in the fragments of overgrown brick walls.
Georgia Street Medical-Dental Building’s Terra Cotta Nurses
Discarding modern heritage: the Sir John Carling Building, Ottawa
In 2014 most of the Sir John Carling Building, former headquarters of Agriculture Canada, was demolished. The SJCB was a FHBRO designated ‘recognized’ heritage building located on the Central Experimental Farm, a National Historic Site of Canada, one of the most treasured places within Ottawa’s historic urban landscape.
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WASTE HERITAGE RESEARCH: deconstruction, salvage & re-use 