Winnipeg City Hall, Competition(-)
Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Government, City Hall

Client: [City of Winnipeg]
Architect: E. & W.S. Maxwell

Description: The government buildings designed by the Maxwell brothers enhanced the firm�s reputation. Their success in these and other competitions for important Montreal buildings, including the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (273) originally Montreal Art Association, was in large part due to the Beaux-Arts skills that William had acquired in Boston and Paris. The Winnipeg City Hall proposal followed a clear classical vocabulary and Beaux-Arts planning principles. The Maxwell scheme showed a monumental and symmetrical building occupying two adjacent blocks. The longitudinal building is organized along a main east-west axis intersected at the middle by King Street. The front fa�ade on Main Street is a beautiful composition of ten Corinthian columns crowned by a continuous parapet that runs around the roof. A tall, off-centre office tower that rises beside the central rotunda, and stands directly on the axis of King Street, dominates the whole building.

Holdings: City Hall
90 Drawings: 16 ink on paper; 73 pencil on paper; 1 watercolour on paper
19 Sketch drawings: perspectives, floor plans, elevations, sections
71 Detail drawings: floor plans, attic floor plan, elevations, sec-�__�tions, council room, assembly hall, stairs, colonnade�_Z�
1 File folder: clipping

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Winnipeg City Hall, Competition(-) Winnipeg, MB, Canada Government, City Hall Client: [City of Winnipeg] Architect: E. & W.S. Maxwell Description: The government buildings designed by the Maxwell brothers enhanced the firm�s reputation. Their success in these and other competitions for important Montreal buildings, including the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (273) originally Montreal Art Association, was in large part due to the Beaux-Arts skills that William had acquired in Boston and Paris. The Winnipeg City Hall proposal followed a clear classical vocabulary and Beaux-Arts planning principles. The Maxwell scheme showed a monumental and symmetrical building occupying two adjacent blocks. The longitudinal building is organized along a main east-west axis intersected at the middle by King Street. The front fa�ade on Main Street is a beautiful composition of ten Corinthian columns crowned by a continuous parapet that runs around the roof. A tall, off-centre office tower that rises beside the central rotunda, and stands directly on the axis of King Street, dominates the whole building. Holdings: City Hall 90 Drawings: 16 ink on paper; 73 pencil on paper; 1 watercolour on paper 19 Sketch drawings: perspectives, floor plans, elevations, sections 71 Detail drawings: floor plans, attic floor plan, elevations, sec-�__�tions, council room, assembly hall, stairs, colonnade�_Z� 1 File folder: clipping
I M A G E S: Drawings
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