buildings & architecture

A weekly feature by Christopher Ryan , a local photographer, blogger and researcher. [  ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/01.Image-Front-April-2014.jpg) _ The Ottawa Stair Works factory, as it is today, with the Somerset Viaduct (or Bridge, if you prefer). April 2014. _ Although John Ruskin may have found it distasteful, by the turn of the twentieth century a whole lot of what went into the construction of homes and buildings was not built on the spot, but rather in factories where process and the division of labour were the orders of the day. ...

_ A weekly feature by Christopher Ryan , a local photographer, blogger and researcher. It appears every Friday on our blog. _ _ _ _ _ [ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/01.-Rupert.jpg) _ When you see them, you can’t unsee them . ...

The entrance to the Park Square apartments, November 2013. A weekly feature by Christopher Ryan, a local photographer, blogger and researcher. It appears every Friday on our blog. It would be safe to suggest that Ottawa, at the national capital, experienced the depths of the Depression differently than much of the remainder of the country. ...

_ A weekly feature by Christopher Ryan , a local photographer, blogger and researcher. It appears every Friday on our blog _ [ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/01.-Image.jpg) _ If I had a list of favourite midcentury modern buildings in Ottawa, the Wesley Building would be in my top 5. ...

_ A weekly feature by Christopher Ryan , a local photographer, blogger and researcher. It appears every Friday on our blog. _ _ _ [  ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/01.-2014-02-08.jpg) _ Thyme & Again, 1255 Wellington St. ...

_ A weekly feature by Christopher Ryan , a local photographer, blogger and researcher. It appears every Friday on our blog. _ This week’s post about the Somerset Towers Apartments on Carling (beside Carlingwood). I was attracted to it for photographing because it the twin towers' round design, but stuck with it when I learned that it was constructed by a mining company looking to make a play into residential construction. ...

_ A weekly feature by Christopher Ryan , a local photographer, blogger and researcher. It appears every Friday on our blog. _ _ _ [ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/01.-2014-01-15-Mousseau-Mosaic-Jackson-Building.jpg) _ The colourful mosaic that greets those who enter the Jackson Building at 122 Bank. ...

_ A weekly feature from Christopher Ryan , a local photographer, blogger and researcher. It appears every Friday on our blog. _ [  ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/011.jpg) Val Cartier Apartments, in the evening of September 22, 2013. Photo by Christopher Ryan Pictured above is the Val Cartier Apartments at 61 Cartier in the Golden Triangle. ...

A weekly feature from Christopher Ryan, a local photographer, blogger and researcher. It appears every Friday on our blog. This apartment building, named The Gilbert Apartments, is located at 293 Lisgar Street and has lead a lonely life. Surrounded by surface parking lot since the 1970s, and currently boarded up, derelict, it is only a matter of time until it would face the same fate as the surrounding buildings. ...

Editor’s note: Here’s the first of a regular weekly feature on our blog from Christopher Ryan. I first encountered him earlier this summer on Instagam, where he has a very creative style of photography that usually eatures Ottawa buildings and landmarks . ...