METRO NEWS, By Lucy Scholey

Sandy Hill will get a controversial nine-storey student housing building after all.

The Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) gave the 180-unit building a stamp…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Matthew Pearson

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Don Butler

Supreme Court Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin raised a red flag last September about the “bleakness and brutalism” of the new Memorial to…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

The Federal Study Centre at 1495 Heron Road in Alta Vista is an excellent example of a modern educational campus. It was originally commissioned in the early 1960s by…

The National Capital Commission (NCC), as part of Carleton University's Forum Lecture Series, is pleased to present a talk by internationally renowned architect Daniel Libeskind on Monday, January…

HERITAGE OTTAWA, By Leslie Maitland

Last year the National Capital Commission was forced to close 7 Clarence, an important heritage structure in the ByWard Market Heritage Conservation…

HERITAGE OTTAWA, By Leslie Maitland

Today marked the first meeting of the newly-constituted Built Heritge Sub-Committee (BHSC). The purpose of this Committee is to consider City staff…

MACLEAN'S, By John Geddes

If construction proceeds according to plan, two angular concrete monuments will rise to the west of Parliament Hill by this autumn. The government is erecting a…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Matthew Pearson

City staff are recommending that the Built Heritage Subcommittee approve an application to alter an historic home in Alta Vista, despite concerns from…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

Heritage Ottawa warmly congratulates Dr. Cameron on her appointment to the Order of Canada. This distinction recognizes her contributions to heritage preservation through…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

An article published under this headline in today's Globe and Mail expresses serious concerns about the Federal government's site choice for a proposed National Memorial to…

The Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism is pleased to announce the next speaker in its Forum Lecture Series, taking place on Monday, January 12 at 6:00pm at The National Gallery Auditorium…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Paula McCooey, With Files From Robert Sibley

LineBox Studio, an Ottawa architecture firm known for its stylized projects, will redesign the former Saint-Charles church in…

CBC News

The former Saint-Charles church has been sold by the Archdiocese of Ottawa. 

In an emailed statement Monday, the archdiocese said the new owner "intends to develop…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Don Butler

A prominent architect who was part of the jury that recommended the winning design for a major new Ottawa memorial to victims of communism says she has a “…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, Letter to the Editor

Re: We Must Do More To Keep Heritage Sites, Dec. 9

Columnist Joanne Chianello makes some great points about heritage. Heritage …

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Matthew Pearson

Renowned architect Douglas Cardinal has filed an appeal to the Ontario Municipal Board over the city’s approval of Windmill…

CentreTown News, By Sammy Hudes and Melissa Bouchard

Some community groups are concerned the federal government’s recent transfer of publicly owned land from Ottawa’s Central Experimental…

By Leslie Maitland, Heritage Ottawa

Yesterday the City announced its 2014-2018 Council Governance Review.

Now, before your eyelids start to get heavy, it’s worth putting on that pot…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, BY Ian MacLeod

The federal archives is sitting on a backlog of 98,000 boxes of undocumented government records, some dating to 1890, says Canada’s auditor general.

…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Matthew Pearson

The City of Ottawa has won a legal victory over Claude Lauzon, owner of a crumbling former schoolhouse in Lowertown.

Lauzon must now complete …

The local architectural and heritage communities are being asked to help provide information for a new project that will outline the history of architectural practice in Ottawa since Confederation…

The National Trust for Canada wrote to the Honourable John Baird, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister Responsible for the National Capital Commission, today to request that the federal…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Peter Anderson

The division of the Central Experimental Farm is an attack on heritage designations and federal science. On Nov. 3, John Baird announced the transfer of…

The Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism is pleased to announce the next speaker in its Forum Lecture Series, taking place this Monday, November 17 at 6:00pm at The National Gallery…

Heritage Ottawa is pleased to support the proposed designation of Hartin Hotel, formerly Al's Steakhouse, in Bell's Corners. This designation signals the growing interest in Ottawa's rural and…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

The National Trust for Canada is following with concern the federal government’s decision to transfer 60 acres of the Central Experimental Farm, National Historic Site of…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, Letter to the Editor

Re: Civic Hospital To Be Rebuilt on Experimental Farm Property, Ottawa Citizen, November 3, 2014

"Although I support building a new Civic…

By Julie Harris

The Central Experimental Farm (CEF) is unique; it consists of almost 1,000 acres of land that has been methodically documented for decades. Research scientists know…

HERITAGE OTTAWA, By Leslie Maitland

The Civic Campus of the Ottawa Hospital on Carling Road is a Frankenstein among hospital buildings. A new facility is well warranted and the Ottawa…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, by David Reevely

The Central Experimental Farm’s status as a historic site can’t stop the federal government from leasing out a chunk of it for a new hospital, Ottawa’s…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Dave Reevely

The Ottawa Hospital is getting 60 acres of federal property to rebuild its Civic campus on Carling Avenue, a long-term project the hospital’s chief…

Heritage Ottawa joins all Canadians in mourning the loss of Cpl. Nathan Cirillo, the army reservist who stood guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on the morning of October 22, 2014. As…

At last night's meeting of the Board of Directors, Heritage Ottawa member Peter Holdsworth was presented with a special award in appreciation of his outstanding volunteer service to Heritage…

 In conjunction with Heritage Ottawa, the NCC will present a discussion on the future of heritage preservation in the National Capital…

OTTAWA - Candidates in Ottawa’s urban wards are far more likely to indicate support for policies aimed at improving the city’s architecture and urban design than candidates in suburban and rural…

The Built Heritage Sub-Committee has recommended that Council issue a Notice of Intention to Designate the houses at 66 and 78 Lisgar Street under Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act. 

By Ian C. Ferguson

Heritage Ottawa’s 2014 Walking Tour season ended on a high note last Sunday with a well attended tour of Briarcliffe, Canada’s first mid-century modern Heritage…

Smith Falls Record News, by Stacey Roy

A discussion around how to recapture the heritage properties of Smiths Falls and give them a new purpose in the community is the focus of the 3rd…

OTTAWA SUN, by Jon Willing

Mayor Jim Watson on Tuesday sent a message to the owner of the rundown Somerset House: "The free ride is over." 

He easily won support of council's…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Robert Sibley

A wobbly wrought iron staircase, weed-encrusted rock formations, and the finest panorama of the Ottawa River you could want — such are what …

Heritage Ottawa invites applications for the Gordon Cullingham Research and Publication Fund. The funding program was created in 2008 and…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Randy Boswell

The rezoning plan tentatively approved Thursday for Windmill’s redevelopment of the Chaudière islands was billed, in part, as a project that will “celebrate…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

Members of Heritage Ottawa were amongst the many attendees this weekend at a landmark colloquium entitled "The Origins and Significance of Residential Gothic Architecture in…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

Heritage Ottawa inaugurated its 2014 - 2015 Lecture Series this evening with a riveting and well received lecture on the topic of Gothic Revival architecture.

Dr.…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

Readers of the Ottawa Citizen have voted the Aberdeen Pavilion as Ottawa's "most eye-pleasing building".

Designed by Ottawa architect Moses C. Edey and built in 1898…

By David B. Flemming

Approximately 140 Sandy HIll residents and supporters, including many Heritage Ottawa members, turned out for a Heritage Demonstration and March in Sandy Hill yesterday…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Andrew King

There's an old cottage in Westboro that looks as though it should be overlooking the water or tucked away in some secluded forest. Instead, it's passed by…

Heritage Ottawa welcomes Heather Thomson as the National Capital Commission's new Manager of its Heritage Program.

Heather has worked in heritage conservation for 16 years at the local,…

The City recognizes outstanding achievements in heritage conservation with the Ottawa Architectural Conservation Awards. 

"The award-winning projects show that, with creativity and…