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HERITAGE OTTAWA
The following text was formally submitted by Heritage Ottawa to the Built Heritage Sub-committee for consideration at its meeting of June 18, 2018. President David Jeanes…
HERITAGE OTTAWA
Architectural visionary Phyllis Lambert, widely considered one of the world's most influential figures in architecture, has written a letter to Mayor Jim Watson to express…
THE HTA BLOG, By Peter Coffman
Several objections were raised at last Monday’s meeting of the Built Heritage Sub-Committee to the proposed extension of the Château Laurier. The thread that…
HERITAGE OTTAWA
Today is an historic National Indigenous Peoples Day for Ottawa. On this day, the City established the permanent presence at City Hall of the flags of the Algonquin…
OTTAWA CITIZEN, By David Jeanes
The following is offered in rebuttal to a column by Mohammed Adam (Ottawa Citizen, June 11) about the proposed addition to the Château Laurier:
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'We want to feel the addition loves the Château as much as we do'
CBC NEWS, By Laura Osman
The architects behind a controversial addition to Ottawa's Château Laurier still don't have…
OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Jon Willing
The city’s built-heritage subcommittee is recommending the architects of the Château Laurier addition go back to the drawing board.
The panel of…
Savanturier Blog, By Andrew Waldron
Imagine it is 2030 and over the past decade the Château Laurier addition has been derided not only for its misunderstanding of architecture, but…
OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Dave Reevely
The latest plans for an addition to the Château Laurier would have been a good starting point. They can’t be the end.
Two years after throwing up a…
OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Jon Willing
Ottawa city council’s decision on the controversial Château Laurier addition will come down to how the proposal stacks up against the rules, not the feelings…
CBC NEWS, By Ryan Tumilty
City staff are recommending council approve a proposed addition to the iconic Chateau Laurier that heritage advocates have denounced.
In a report released…
OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Jon Willing
City heritage planners support the Château Laurier’s proposed design for its glassy seven-storey addition, despite hearing strong opposition from the…
CBC NEWS | OTTAWA, By Laura Osman
The architect behind the maligned Château Laurier addition is defending his latest design, and hoping once it is built people will come to believe the…
CANADIAN ARCHITECT
Now in its fourth iteration, a plan by architectsAlliance to expand Ottawa’s iconic Château Laurier continues to meet a frosty reception.
Designed in…
CONSTRUCTION CANADA
Heritage Ottawa has slammed the latest designs for a new seven-storey addition at the rear of the Château Laurier hotel in downtown Ottawa. The preservation group is…
THE NATIONAL POST
OTTAWA — A preservation society is blasting the redesign of an addition to Ottawa’s stately Chateau Laurier hotel as “heritage vandalism,” but the lead architect on the…
HERITAGE OTTAWA
As part of Welcoming Ottawa Week (WOW), June 18 to 30, 2018, the Ottawa Local Immigration Partnership, Heritage Ottawa, City of Ottawa and Immigration, Refugees and…
THE HTA BLOG, By Peter Coffman
We have now seen yet another version of the proposed subtraction from the Château Laurier. I know I’m supposed to call it the “addition to” the Château,…
OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Matthew Pearson
Heritage Ottawa has come out swinging against the latest plans for an addition to the venerated Château Laurier, calling the proposal “the most…
CBC NEWS
The latest attempt at designing a major addition to Ottawa's historic Château Laurier is "the most disgraceful act of heritage vandalism of our generation," according to…
GLOBAL NEWS, By Christopher Whan
“The most disgraceful act of heritage vandalism of our generation” is how Heritage Ottawa describes the redesign of upgrades to the Château Laurier in a…
HERITAGE OTTAWA | STATEMENT OF JUNE 3, 2018
Owners of the Château Laurier have unveiled their latest design for a proposed addition to the venerable historic hotel, a National Historic…
HERITAGE OTTAWA | STATEMENT OF JUNE 3, 2018
Owners of the Château Laurier have unveiled their latest design for a proposed addition to the venerable historic hotel, a National Historic Site…
OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Tom Spears
Memo to the Trudeau family: You’re smart to stay out of 24 Sussex Drive. Engineers say its walls might drop pieces of rock on those who live there.
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OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Jon Willing
The owner of the Château Laurier has filed a new design for its proposed addition, attempting to make the contemporary wing complement, not overwhelm, the…
CBC NEWS OTTAWA, By Laura Osman
The applicant has received some public feedback that expressed concern about the…
OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Kieren Delemont
Carleton University has finalized a deal to purchase the Dominion-Chalmers United Church, which it intends to turn into a “multi-purpose downtown…
ARTSFILE OTTAWA, By Peter Robb
Carleton University has announced that it has completed negotiations to purchase Dominion-Chalmers United Church.
The acquisition was made…
CTV NEWS OTTAWA, By Joanne Schnurr
The Andaz Hotel in Ottawa's ByWard Market could soon have a twin tower attached to it. Claridge Homes is hoping to build a 19-storey addition to the…
THE GLOBE AND MAIL, By Adam Stanley
The building used to be painted an undesirable mustard-yellow. Now it’s known more for the golden ales and lagers poured inside.
In Ottawa’s…
HERITAGE OTTAWA
Heritage Ottawa invites members and their guests to attend its Annual General Meeting on Thursday, May 24 at the Glebe Community Centre, beginning at 7:00 pm.
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WHEN: Saturday, June 9, 2018
Join Heritage Ottawa on a special day-long field trip to historic Almonte and Carp!
Our bus trip offers two fascinating guided tours, the Mississippi…
GLOBAL NEWS, By Beatrice Britness
A group of residents in Ottawa’s Centretown neighbourhood are up in arms over a proposal to tear down two heritage homes on Kent Street and replace them…
CBC NEWS | OTTAWA, By Laura Osman
A developer hoping to build a four-storey apartment building on Kent Street has been ordered back to the drawing board to prevent the structure from…
CBC NEWS | OTTAWA
As Gatineau city councillors consider a heritage designation for the…
CBC NEWS | OTTAWA
By the end of this week, the home of the Ottawa Rowing Club could be on track to becoming the city's latest heritage building.
The City of Ottawa's built heritage…
HERITAGE OTTAWA
Heritage Ottawa president David Jeanes and architectural historian/photographer Peter Coffman will be leading a Jane’s Walk on the history and architecture of the Château…
HERITAGE OTTAWA
Architectural historians Andrew Waldron and Peter Coffman – author and photographer, respectively, of the recently published guidebook Exploring…
CBC NEWS | OTTAWA
When Lisgar Collegiate Institute celebrates its 175th anniversary this weekend, who better than David Jeanes to walk people through the corridors?
The president of…
CBC NEWS, By Leah Hansen and Trevor Pritchard
Nearly nine months after a monument to the workers who died building the Rideau Canal was mysteriously destroyed, people gathered on the…
OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Olivia Robinson
The Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA) has granted the City of Ottawa an extension to decide the fortunes of the Prince of Wales Bridge.
On Feb.…
OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Jon Willing
The Ugandan High Commission should be allowed to demolish the former Sandy Hill home of Lester B. Pearson and construct a new office building, the planning…
CBC NEWS | OTTAWA
Ottawa's planning committee overwhelmingly approved the demolition of a…
CBC NEWS | OTTAWA
The National Capital Commission's board of directors has approved a multi-million dollar project to make the ruins of a 19th-century pulp mill near the Portage Bridge more…
HERITAGE OTTAWA
SAVE THE DATES: MAY 5 - 6, 2018
Jane's Walk is an annual weekend festival of free neighbourhood walking tours throughout Ottawa-Gatineau, led by local citizens who…
OTTAWA SUN, By Jonathan McLeod
There was, perhaps, the most minor of international incidents in Ottawa the other day as the city’s built-heritage subcommittee denied approval for the…
OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Jamie Portman
The owners of the Fairmont Château Laurier should pay a visit to Niagara-on-the-Lake. It might deter them from the folly of their proposed addition to…
THE HTA BLOG, By Peter Coffman
One of the more surreal moments during last month’s open house on the proposed Château Laurier expansion was hearing Michael McClelland mansplain that…
HERITAGE OTTAWA
The controversial Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) is about to be replaced by the Local Planning Appeal Tribunal.
The new Tribunal follows the government of…
PATRIMOINE OTTAWA | Mercredi le 27 mars
Un nouveau livre sur un important architecte moderniste canadien, Louis J. Lapierre, a été publié en février.
Les auteurs,…
