Heritage Ottawa invites applications for the Gordon Cullingham Research and Publication Grant. The grant program was created in 2008 and is named in honour of the late Gordon Cullingham,…

Note from Heritage Ottawa - After the heritage structure at 7 Clarence Street was demolished in 2014 due to structural concerns, Heritage Ottawa worked hard to convince the NCC that the initial…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

Ottawa Architecture Week (OAW) is an annual week-long festival that celebrates…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Patrick Langston

Big-city museums are a treat, but the Ottawa and St. Lawrence Valley also brim with smaller museums offering keen insights into local history and the…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

In consultation with members of the New Edinburgh Community Alliance and Heritage Ottawa, City Heritage staff have drafted a new Heritage Conservation District Plan for New…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Elizabeth Payne

For decades, the islands in the Ottawa River surrounding Chaudière Falls have been all but invisible to area residents. Ground zero for Ottawa’s lumber…

THE NEW YORK TIMES / T MAGAZINE, By Witold Rybcznski

Once upon a time, the great architecture of the world was strictly local. Travelers seeking the wonders of London, Paris and Florence…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Bruce Deachman

In the second in a series examining the area’s islands, Bruce Deachman digs into the soil of Green Island and come up with what might well…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Matthew Pearson

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Don Butler

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Don Butler

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Patrick Smith

Time travel machines may not exist, but the organizers of Bytown Days don't think that should stop you from taking a trip back in time.

The annual…

MACLEANS, By John Geddes

Larry Beasley, Vancouver’s celebrated former director of planning, is in demand for his expertise on urban design everywhere from Dallas to Rotterdam, Moscow…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Don Butler

The National Capital Commission has begun work with a team of consultants on an illumination…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Bruce Deachman

HERITAGE OTTAWA

The Lowertown Community Association / Basseville Association Communitaire will celebrate the lively history of Dalhousie Street with free Heritage Walks in both English and…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

At the public meeting of the Ottawa Hospital held on June 24, 2015  Leslie Maitland, Past President of Heritage Ottawa and Dr. Clarke Topp, Professor Emeritus…

UPDATE, JULY 6, 2015 - Heritage Ottawa has followed up with City of Ottawa heritage staff concerning roof repairs underway on the Aberdeen Pavilion National Historic Site of Canada.  Heritage…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Bruce Deachman

It’s difficult to imagine what Ottawa would look like today had city planner Jacques Gréber never set foot here. We would most certainly not have the…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

On June 26, 2015 the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, Heritage Ottawa, and architects Barry Padolsky and Shirley Blumberg filed an application in the…

THE GLOBE AND MAIL, By Laura Beeston

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Anais Voski

The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, Heritage Ottawa, and two architects are challenging in federal court the National Capital Commission’s…

CBC NEWS, OTTAWA

Heritage and architecture supporters have banded together to file a federal lawsuit against the proposed memorial to victims of communism, one day after the National…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

Today the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, Heritage Ottawa, and architects Barry Padolsky and Shirley Blumberg began an application in the Federal Court…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

The Strutt House, an important modernist building in the Ottawa region designed in 1956 by architect James Strutt, will be benefiting from a conservation grant from The…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Blair Crawford

A coalition of architects, planners and landscape designers is urging National Capital Commission chairman Russell Mills to appeal directly to Prime…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

The National Capital Commission (NCC) will hold its Annual Public Meeting on Thursday, June 25.

Heritage Ottawa's President, David Jeanes, has registered the…

The National Arts Centre was a centennial project, built to mark a major milestone in Canadian history. 

On Canada Day, a new exhibit entitled "Architecture and National Identity: The…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Blair Crawford

Gatineau’s iconic Strutt House, lauded by National Capital Commission CEO Mark Kristmanson as “a unique 20th century architectural treasure in the…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

Heritage Ottawa's 2014-2015 lecture series concluded on a high note last week with a tremendous presentation by local historian Martha Edmond. Her illustrated talk entitled…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

Alain Miguelez, city planner and amateur historian, has written a book about the 1950 master plan that transformed Ottawa. Richly illustrated with 1930s period photographs…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Bruce Deachman

With bagpipes and drums set to high importance, the group’s rendition of The Maple Leaf Forever announced the arrival there of Government Leader Peter Van…

HERITAGE OTTAWA, By Leslie Maitland

The Medical Arts Building has passed the first hurdle towards designation under Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act. At yesterday's meeting of…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Don Butler

It’s a plan more than a century in the making. And the Conservative government blithely ignored it when it designated a 5,000-square-metre property on…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

A public presentation hosted by Urban Forum will examine the Long Term Vision and Plan for Ottawa's Parliamentary and Judicial Precincts.

OTTAWA CITIZEN, by Anais Voski

With 22 new sites this year, the 14th Doors Open Ottawa promises to be the largest and most promising one yet as more than 120 locations will open…

The Hill Times, By Tim Naumetz

Despite heavy construction, underground dynamiting and excavations on Parliament Hill, nearly all of the seven statues of distinguished former prime ministers…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

Heritage Canada The National Trust released its 12th annual Top Ten Endangered Places list and Worst Losses List today.

The selection of endangered…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Elizabeth Payne

A large majority of Canadians — even among Conservative supporters — think the Conservative government’s planned memorial to the victims of communism…

OTTAWA SUN, By Danielle Dube

The NCC is working with local authorities to investigate an overnight fire Thursday that left a historical Quebec building in ruins.

THE GLOBE AND MAIL, Open Letter

Dear Members of the Board of Directors of Tribute to Liberty – Ludwik Klimkowski, Alide Forstmanis, Teresa Berezowski, Christine Dang, Ivan Grbesic, Paul…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

Since Queen Victoria selected Bytown as Canada’s capital in 1858, the Parliamentary and Judicial Precincts facing Wellington Street have…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Matthew Pearson

The city appears to be taking steps to formalize its opposition to the proposed location of the Memorial to the Victims of Communism.

A day after…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Don Butler

An influential National Capital Commission committee will weigh in this week on the design of the Memorial to the Victims of Communism, moving the…

The Ottawa Regional Heritage Fair is an annual event at which students from various regional school boards present heritage related projects in French, English or bilingual formats. This year…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Natalie Bull

In 2017, Canada will celebrate 150 years of confederation. It’s a milestone worth marking – so what’s our plan? Tuesday’s federal budget makes two…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Don Butler

It could be as late as September before the National Capital Commission's  board of directors approves the design of the contentious new…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Don Butler

Jane's Walk hosts a weekend festival of free neighbourhood walking tours throughout Ottawa that promote urban literacy through the simple act of walking and observing. Tours offer insights into…

The National Arts Centre was the federal government’s centennial project to commemorate Canada’s 1967 celebration of Confederation. The project fulfilled a long-held national dream to create a…