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…

CAPITAL MODERN Blog, By Chris Warden

While it is encouraging to hear that there must at least be an attempt made to retain the last remaining piece of the Sir John Carling Building as part…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Joanne Laucius

William “Bill” Teron was, among other things,  a developer, a building innovator, a patron of the arts, a philanthropist and a senior public servant…

CBC NEWS | OTTAWA

Heritage advocates in Ottawa say they'll be disappointed if a vacant 1960s cafeteria building is demolished to make way for Ottawa's new hospital.

The building in…

APT613, By Leslie Maitland

The Château Laurier Hotel graces an exceptionally unique site of national importance.

It’s part of our country’s most significant and recognizable view. A…

OTTAWA MATTERS | 1310 NEWS, By Mike Vlasveld

Co-Chair of Heritage Ottawa Leslie Maitland thinks the City of Ottawa can do better in designing its Château Laurier expansion, and is asking…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Jon Willing

The city’s volunteer advocacy group for heritage protection hates the latest design for the Château Laurier addition, but the planner overseeing the…

CBC NEWS OTTAWA

An Ottawa heritage advocacy group wants the entire country to tell Ottawa city council that the new proposed design for the Château Laurier's addition simply isn't good…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

Last week, architects for owners of the Château Laurier Hotel revealed their latest design for a proposed expansion of the hotel, a National Historic Site of Canada.

…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

Our heritage stands at a critical crossroads.


A controversial application for major alterations to Ottawa's Château Laurier Hotel, if allowed to proceed as proposed…

By Peter Coffman

In my last blog, I talked about the process at City Hall’s recent Château Laurier Open House. Today, I want to discuss the content.

First observation: after hearing…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By David Reevely

Unless The Ottawa Hospital can build a new Civic campus around the old cafeteria at the Sir John Carling Building, the historic structure the government…

CTV NEWS

The latest version of a proposed addition to Ottawa's Château Laurier "speaks a fundamentally different language than the historic building" says Peter Coffman, architectural…

HERITAGE OTTAWA, By Leslie Maitland

A new banner honouring Heritage Ottawa’s co-founders will be featured at the 2018 Bob and Mary Anne Phillips Memorial Lecture taking place this…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Jon Willing

The “iconic” brick smoke stack that rises above an old federal complex on Booth Street would remain as part of a proposed redevelopment scheme that retains…

KITCHISSIPPI TIMES, By Alyson Queen

Thanks to months of effort from a group of concerned residents and their supporters, the Kitchissippi Times has confirmed that the Civic Pharmacy sign…

THE HTA BLOG, By Peter Coffman

Saying I don’t like the new proposal for an addition to the Château Laurier is pretty meaningless unless I can explain what I think is wrong with it.  I’…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Jon Willing

The city’s built-heritage subcommittee on Thursday turned down the Uganda High Commission’s application to demolish a Sandy Hill building that was once home…

CBC NEWS OTTAWA 

CBC NEWS OTTAWA, By Joanne Chianello

The home where former prime minister Lester B. Pearson lived…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Jon Willing

The owner of the Château Laurier revealed a new, glassy design for its proposed addition on Thursday, hoping a scaled-down concept will win over critics.…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Jon Willing

A decrepit building in Sandy Hill once home to Lester B. Pearson isn’t worth saving, partly because it wasn’t important to the political career of the former…

CBC NEWS | OTTAWA, By Matthew Kupfer

The Ottawa Civic Hospital unveiled the architectural plans for its new campus on the northeast corner of the Central Experimental Farm on Wednesday…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Andrew Duffy

The Ottawa Hospital’s preliminary plan for a $2-billion Civic campus envisions an oval-shaped hospital that preserves the site’s mature trees and maintains…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Elizabeth Payne

Ottawa residents will get a first glimpse this week of how a new Ottawa Hospital Civic campus will be situated on the eastern edge of the Central…

CBC NEWS OTTAWA | By Laurie Fagan

At 86, Norma Craig has grown accustomed to seeing the landscape change around her,…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Jon Willing

There should be an inquiry into the decision to use part of the Central Experimental Farm for a relocated Civic hospital campus, according to a retired judge…

CBC NEWS | OTTAWA, By Laura Osman

A newly formed group of concerned residents is…