Canadian Chancery
- Architect
- Arthur Erickson
- Year
- 1986
- Style
- Contemporary Modern
- City
- Washington, DC
The Canadian Chancery is Canada's embassy building on Pennsylvania Avenue, completed in 1986 to a design by Arthur Erickson, one of Canada's most prominent architects. It stands as a modern-architecture landmark on a stretch of avenue otherwise dominated by federal government buildings, marking Canada's diplomatic presence within sight of the Capitol.
the style
The chancery is built in a modern architecture idiom, a deliberate departure from the historicist government buildings that line Pennsylvania Avenue, asserting a contemporary identity for Canada's mission within sight of the Capitol.
More on Contemporary Modernthe architect
Arthur Erickson was a major Canadian architect; the Chancery, completed in 1986, is his design for Canada's diplomatic mission in Washington.
nearby
- Federal Trade Commission Building
- E. Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse
- Henry J. Daly Building
- Central National Bank
- East Building of the National Gallery of Art
- National Gallery of Art