CBC NEWS, By Laura Osman

A plan to restore the long vacant and derelict Somerset House has been cancelled, which could leave the heritage building undeveloped for years to come.

City…

GLOBAL NEWS, By Christopher Whan

City staff reported to the built-heritage subcommittee on Thursday that they are “not optimistic” the owner of Somerset House intends to continue with the…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

Carleton University’s School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies and Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism are co-hosting the fourth annual Herb Stovel Memorial…

Take action! Sign the petition calling for heritage funding in the 2019 Federal Budget.

Heritage Ottawa believes that Canada's historic places deserve support — and we…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Matthew Pearson

Children who were in kindergarten on the day Somerset House partially collapsed in October 2007 are in high school, now and there’s a good chance they’ll…

CTV Ottawa
 

The Wellington West BIA is calling on the city of Ottawa to speed up its work on Magee House.

In a letter sent to city staff, the BIA says  it is…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Taylor Blewett

In front of a room packed to the brim with members of the public, Gatineau city council passed a heritage designation for the city’s downtown Museum…

CBC NEWS

Gatineau city councillors voted to place a heritage designation on the neighbourhood around the Canadian Museum of History Tuesday night, effectively killing plans for two highrise…

CBC NEWS, By Joanne Chianello

Worried about leaving a former convent in Westboro empty too long, city councillors on Ottawa's planning committee approved a plan Monday to attach a nine-…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Taylor Blewett

While Gatineau city council is officially voting on a heritage designation for its downtown Museum District on Tuesday, it’s also a referendum of sorts on…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Kelly Egan

Does Canada even need official residences for its leading dignitaries?

We’re today cornered with the question. Since taking office in 2015, Prime…

CBC NEWS, By Laura Fagan

Peter Ferguson and his comrades with the Lowertown Community Association have fought countless battles with developers over infill projects in their downtown…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Jon Willing

The National Capital Commission on Tuesday revealed its spending plan for the $55 million in repair funds earmarked in the last federal budget, but the…

CBC NEWS, By Kate Porter

A developer has resumed plans to gut an art deco heritage building in downtown Ottawa and integrate its facade into a new 27-storey tower to be built behind it.​…

CBC NEWS OTTAWA, with files from Elyse Skura

For a handful of summer students at the National Capital Commission, Quebec's Archeology Month is more than a neat opportunity to dig for hidden…

OTTAWA CITIZEN EDITORIAL BOARD

There is no doubt Ottawans value their heritage buildings. The long-running debate over an addition to the Chateau Laurier and the even-longer-running…

The following article appeared in the "Athena Cultural Crusader" section of the August 8 issue of COUNTRY LIFE, a weekly U.K. magazine with a focus on arts, travel and architecture.

The…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By David B. Flemming

The recent partial collapse of the late 19th-century Magee House – a heritage designated building on Wellington Street West – raises the question of how…

GLOBAL NEWS | OTTAWA, By Beatrice Britneff

An absence of mortar caused the stone wall collapse at the historic Magee House in Hintonburg last week, according to an engineer hired by the…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Jon Willing

The old Westboro convent is still at the centre of a development controversy, with the owner on Thursday failing to win approval from the city’s heritage…

GLOBAL NEWS | OTTAWA, By Beatrice Britneff

The committee that reviews applications to redevelop Ottawa’s heritage properties has rejected Ashcroft Homes’ latest bid to repurpose the site of…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Jon Willing

There was virtually no mortar holding the stones together on a wall that crumbled off a Hintonburg heritage building last week, according to the engineer…

CBC NEWS, By Laura Osman

The City of Ottawa's built heritage subcommittee rejected the latest plan for the contentious Sisters of Visitation Convent on Richmond Road on Thursday, hoping to…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

Do you agree that Canada's historic places deserve support?

Liberal Member of Parliament John Aldag (Cloverdale-Langley City, B.C.) is sponsoring a petition that…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Kieran Delamont

The city is moving quickly to deal with the Magee House, which was missing the better part of its west-facing wall, by knocking part of the building down…

CBC NEWS OTTAWA

Crews are demolishing part of the decades-old Hintonburg building that partially collapsed earlier this week.

The southwest corner and a portion of the roof are being…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Joanne Laucius

More than 130 years after the death of Frances Magee, the stone house on Wellington Street still retains the name of an energetic Irish widow who became a…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Jon Willing and Joanne Laucius

The historic stone building that crumbled in Hintonburg this week was one of 23 properties on a heritage watch list for deterioration, but…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Kieran Delamont

A wall on a historic building in Hintonburg partially collapsed just after 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday night.

Ottawa Fire Services is continuing to…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Matthew Pearson

In order to capitalize on its plan to redevelop an old federal complex on Booth Street, Canada Lands Company is asking the city to remove height limits…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

City Council voted unanimously on June 27, 2018 to approve the Built Heritage Sub Committee’s (BHSC)…

GLOBAL NEWS, By Beatrice Britneff

Council agreed today that planners have more work to do on the design of the Château Laurier expansion, a controversial process that has dragged on for…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Jon Willing

The drama at city hall over the Château Laurier’s proposed addition should go silent until the next term of council.

Council on Wednesday voted to have…

EDMONTON SUN, By Jon Willing

City council could neuter itself on Wednesday as Ottawa’s watchdog for heritage properties when it considers kicking the final design responsibility for the…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Jon Willing

There wasn’t much fuss over the proposed Château Laurier expansion during Tuesday’s planning committee meeting.

Councillors simply approved a…

CBC NEWS, By Laura Osman

The president of Heritage Ottawa is warning city councillors they may be about to lose their last chance to veto the design for a modernist addition to the Château…

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:

…

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…

'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…

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…