This is a swoosh-box, stationed outside the entrance of 300 Slater, the north tower of the Jean Edmonds Building, formerly the Journal Towers, home to the Ottawa Journal until 1980. The Journal was founded in 1885 by A.S Woodburn, who for a time also published the Woodburn Ottawa Directories, those now-endlessly valuable historical research tomes.
Not only do swoosh-boxes signal their function by their curious shape, this exemplar enforces the local asymmetry in a designated "No Symmetry Zone" (6:00 hrs to 18:00 hrs), one of a handful in the downtown core.
