Main entrance to the Embassy of Canada – 501 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC

The embassy was designed by British Columbia architect Arthur Erickson. Erickson's combination of modernism and neoclassicism evokes I.M. Pei's design for the National Gallery of Art's East Building across Pennsylvania Avenue. Erickson's biographer Nicholas Olsberg described the design as "making fun of the ridiculous terms to which buildings must adhere in Washington."