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Glory of Ottawa
Carolyn Ann Young
其他書名
Canada's First Parliament Buildings
出版
McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
, 1995
主題
Architecture / History / General
Architecture / Buildings / Public, Commercial & Industrial
History / Canada / General
History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
Political Science / World / Canadian
ISBN
0773512276
9780773512276
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ylnGjgGExcwC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
The competition to design and construct the government buildings in Ottawa, the new national capital, was one of the most important architectural events in nineteenth-century British North America and the finished buildings inspired a major movement in Canadian federal architecture. The Glory of Ottawa focuses on the 1859 design competition for the parliamentary complex, from which these unrivalled buildings emerged. Young includes an investigation of the architectural climate in which the parliament buildings were conceived, providing insight into the practice of architecture in pre-Confederation Canada. The aftermath of the contest is also explored, including changes to the plans, the problem of costs, the critical reception of the buildings, and their place in the aesthetics of the time.