Exercise 2: Exterior Architecture

 

This is the Mary, Queen of the World Cathedral. The cathedral was completed in 1894 and its architect was Victor Bourgeau. The building was designed to be a low scale replica of St. Peter's cathedral and it has a Neo-Renaissance and a Baroque architectural style. My approach was to take a straight-line image of this church who has a backlit lighting. I had to wait for cars to pass while taking this photo because I didn’t want any automobile in the shot since I think they will be a distraction. I wanted to highlight the cathedral as the main subject, but I also wanted to include some of the surrounding like the tall building behind it and the construction sign in the frame.  The inclusion of some of the surrounding like the skyscraper is to show that the church is situated in downtown.  

This is the Telus Tower it contains the Montreal operations of Telus, the head office of Telus Health Solutions, but also houses the local offices of Accenture, Roche, Canada Life, Clyde & Co, Fairstone Financial, Inc., as well as a Bank of Montreal branch. The architect was Gordon Bunshaft from the architectural firm Skidmore, Owings and Merrill with local architects Greenspoon, Freedlander and Dunne. The building had a façade well lit lighting. For this image, I had to wait for the traffic light to turn red to capture the automobile in one place. I wanted to highlight the massiveness of the building by including part of the street which shows the pedestrian and the vehicle which they are serves as a comparison in scale with the tall building.

SunCalc for Telus Tower

This building contains the EgR Inc. which is an insurance broker company. In addition, there is a Steakhouse & Sushi restaurant named VARGAS that is situated in the ground floor. My approach for this photo was to take a straight-line image of this building who has a backlit lighting.  I wanted to take a picture of this place because I was interested in the reflection because it mirrors the building in front of it. Thus, I wanted to highlight the reflection of the edifice and I had to wait for cars to pass since I didn’t want any driving automobile in the frame.

SunCalc for the EgR/ VARGAS building