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Historic Lowertown Cottages Must Be Moved Or Torn DownTuesday, September 10, 2013CBC NEWS - Historic cottages in Ottawa's Lowertown neighbourhood are caught in a unique predicament: They have to be claimed for free and moved away from the site of a future condo, or be...
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Book Fetes Work of W.E. NoffkeFriday, April 12, 2013OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Maria Cook
W.E. Noffke designed so many of Ottawa's buildings that from cradle to grave "you could live in a Noffke world," says Ottawa architectural historian Shannon...
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A Lesson In Zoned Architectural Protection From OttawaThursday, March 14, 2013The Globe and Mail, by Dave LeBlanc
Pop the cork and grab a cigar: Two weeks ago, Canada’s first protected mid-century modern neighbourhood was born.
Weighing in at 23 homes on two...
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Heritage At Risk In Lowertown?Tuesday, February 12, 2013According to a news report in the Ottawa Citizen dated Feb. 4, 2013, a Lowertown schoolhouse is at risk of collapse.
The city has ordered that the building at 287 Cumberland Street, the...
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How Somerset House Transformed From The Grande Dame Of Bank Street To A Blight On The NeighbourhoodThursday, September 1, 2011OTTAWA MAGAZINE
Just 10 years ago, the Duke of Somerset and its downstairs neighbour, the Lockmaster Tavern, had the highest daily beer sales of any bar in the city. Today, the Bank Street...
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Parliament's West Block to Get New LookFriday, February 18, 2011Maria Cook, OTTAWA CITIZEN / POSTMEDIA NEWS
The planned renewal of Parliament Hill’s West Block, including a new building in the courtyard, passed a milestone on Friday with approval of the...
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Union StationWednesday, July 14, 2010The former Union Station, now Government Conference Centre, is located at 2 Rideau Street in Ottawa. The original design is the work of New York architect Bradford Lee Gilbert, reworked by Ross...
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36 Hours In OttawaSunday, August 26, 2007THE NEW YORK TIMES, by Katie Arnold
OTTAWA has always had image problems. Back in 1857, when it beat out its rivals Toronto and Montreal in a bid to become Canada's national capital, the...
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"A Confluence of Circumstances" brought modernism to OttawaFriday, May 26, 2006THE GLOBE AND MAIL, by Dave LeBlanc
Once in a while, a reminder of modernism's awesome reach as an architectural movement -- into practically every city on the globe -- is in order. I'll...