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, 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…

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…

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 “…

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…

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…

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 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…

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 Site…

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…

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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CBC NEWS OTTAWA, By Laura Osman

The applicant has received some public feedback that expressed concern about the…

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…

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…

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…

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

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

Architectural historians Andrew Waldron and Peter Coffman – author and photographer, respectively, of the recently published guidebook Exploring…

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…

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.…

CBC NEWS | OTTAWA

Ottawa's planning committee overwhelmingly approved the demolition of a…

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

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,…

Algonquin College recently announced plans to suspend two heritage-related programs at its Perth campus, effective fall 2018. The Masonry, Heritage and Traditional and Carpentry and Renovation…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

The following letter was sent by the National Historic Site Alliance to Mayor Jim Watson and Ottawa City Council on March 22, 2018.

Dear Mayor and Councillors,

CENTRETOWN BUZZ, By Heather McArthur

In early February, the architects for Larco Investment Ltd. quietly unveiled a revised proposal for expansion of the iconic Château Laurier Hotel.

HERITAGE OTTAWA

About 40 “Friends of the Bradley-Craig Farm” assembled for a community photo on February 4 in front of the big red barn on Hazeldean Road.

They were celebrating news…

ARTSFILE, By Andrew Waldron

The publicity-shy Lalji family of Vancouver, the owners of Larco Corporation, wishes to add 171 “long-stay” rooms to one of their properties, the venerable…