Phase IV – Ottawa/Gatineau Time Warp

I love the architecture of Place du Portage IV. It’s still so unabashedly 1970s; evocative of a time and place out of childhood where Ottawa was remote and near-mythical.

I never believed as a child, nor as a young adult, that I would ever live or work in the National Capital Region.

Ottawa was a place where no-one I knew lived. It only existed in television commercials, ostensibly as a mail drop for the USC at 56 Sparks Street.

Perhaps that’s why I get such pleasure at the sight of this building. It’s the Ottawa of distant memories—one that stayed exactly as it was, so that one day the child that imagined it through the window of television might experience it first-hand as an adult.