Exterior Architecture Exercise 2
Located at 110 Notre-Dame Street West, Notre-Dame Basilica was built in 1672. In 1824 Irish-American architect James O'Donnell was commissioned to design the new building, with a goal of accommodating a congregation of up to 10,000. O'donnell was a proponent of the Gothic Revival architectural movement, and designed the chuich as such. The interior of the basilica is amongst the most dramatic in the world and regarded as a masterpiece of Gothic Revival architecture.
I chose a 14mm lens to include the whole basilica into the shot together with Place d'Armes, to present the majesty of the basilica. The building is backlit. The sun as background also added stateliness to the basilica. I chose black and white for the same purpose.
14mm, f/13, 1/250 sec, ISO64
In the late 19th century and for several decades thereafter, grain was the main export product transiting through the Port of Montreal. Competition from U.S. ports was strong, so the decision was made to equip Montreal's with grain elevators and make it the world's leading grain port by 1928. Located at the entrance to the Lachine Canal and came into operation in 1906, Silo No.5 is the only extant example of the evolution of grain elevators in the 20th century, it demonstrates the technological prowess of a bygone era.
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