Burlington POA Courthouse

These images and text were part of the media kit that David Lasker Communications created for the Burlington Provincial Offences Act Courthouse in Burlington, Ontario, by +VG Architects (The Ventin Group Ltd.), published in Canadian Architect. The most striking feature is the colonnade of red-pine telephone poles. They add a monumental yet economical touch while making reference to the historical nature of the site, a former pine forest. “The red pines were taken out,” says architect Ed Bourdeau, Partner at +VG Architects. “Just strip the bark off a red pine and you’ve got your telephone pole.." As architectural photographers in Toronto, we wanted to show how the poles’ rough, rugged surface and warm earth tones make a pleasing contrast of texture to the slick, cool surfaces of the glass-and-steel curtain wall.