HERITAGE OTTAWA

Heritage Ottawa is pleased to report that City Council has passed a long-overdue increase to the Heritage Grant Program for Building Restoration in the 2019 City budget…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

Heritage Ottawa's Leslie Maitland appeared on CTV NEWS OTTAWA this morning to discuss two local heritage structures each facing a critical crossroads.

The latest…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

Heritage Ottawa recently learned that at least two of the city's most important heritage structures appear on a list of city-owned buildings available for corporate naming…

CBC NEWS, By Krystalle Ramlakhan

People in Hintonburg are still calling for the sidewalk around the partially-collapsed Magee House to be reopened.

Ever since the wall of the old…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

On February 6, Heritage Ottawa submitted a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau regarding the future of 24 Sussex Drive. The letter was copied to the leaders of the…

Heritage Ottawa has been advocating for years for the conservation of 24 Sussex Drive, a classified federal heritage building. ( See our recent letter of February 6, 2019 to the PM.) The following…

HERITAGE OTTAWA | STATEMENT OF MARCH 4, 2019

For more than two years, Canadians have been witnessing with growing concern a sequence of various design proposals for an addition to the…

Following today's release of the latest design for the Chateau Laurier addition, the following report was posted to CBCNews.ca

CBC NEWS, By Ryan Tumilty

The developer behind the…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

Excellence in preservation of Ottawa's architectural heritage was recognized at last week's 2019 Ottawa Heritage Awards, held at the University of Ottawa's Alex Trebek…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

Heritage Ottawa took advantage of the celebratory Heritage Day mood at City Hall on February 19 to present our annual Gordon Cullingham Research and Publication Fund to…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

A city staff report recommending designation of the Booth Street Complex as a property of cultural heritage value under the Ontario Heritage Act (OHA) received the support…

BILL 66 AND ALL THAT

OHA+M BLOG (Ontario Heritage Act and More), By Dan Schneider

I have been putting off writing about Bill 66, the proposed Restoring Ontario's Competitiveness Act…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

Heritage Ottawa is pleased to co-host a two-part event at the next NCC Urbanism Lab.

Thursday, February 14,…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

The School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies invites submissions from related scholars and practitioners of Architecture, Curatorial Studies, Engineering, Heritage…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

Last November, Liberal MP John Aldag tabled Petition E-1778 (National Historic Sites) calling upon the Minister of Environment and Climate Change to work with the Minister…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

More than ten years have passed since an Auditor General's report called for urgent repairs to 24 Sussex, the official residence of Canada's prime ministers. …

HERITAGE OTTAWA

Heritage Ottawa warmly congratulates Dr. Christina Cameron on her recent award of the Prix-Gérard Morisset 2018 for Heritage, one of the cultural awards bestowed by Les Prix…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

An exhibition of alternative designs for an addition to the Château Laurier Hotel, created by students of Carleton University's Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism,…

THE HTA BLOG, By Peter Coffman

I’ve believed for a long time that the proposed addition to the Château Laurier was based on faulty premises that need to be re-thought.  So, just what…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

Ever since the first design proposal for an addition to the Château Laurier was unveiled over two years ago, frustrated Ottawans have been asking, “can’t it be something…

OTTAWA CITIZEN | EDITORIAL BOARD, By David Jeanes

Re: Owner of Somerset House would rather tear it down, build a replica building, Nov. 16, 2018

So the owner of Somerset House has…

Heritage Ottawa is pleased to be hosting an exhibit of designs for an addition to the Château Laurier created by students at Carleton University’s Azrieli School of Architecture and…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Jon Willing

The owner of Somerset House, the ramshackle building at a landmark downtown intersection, says he wants to demolish it and construct something that reflects…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Jon Willing

Ovidio Sbrissa is prepared to fight city hall if Ottawa’s chief building official orders the total destruction of his Magee House in Hintonburg.

“That…

CBC NEWS, By Joanne Chianello

The city should make a definitive decision on whether it will demolish a privately owned heritage building in…

OTTAWA CITIZEN | Editorial, By Liz MacKenzie and Gail McEachern

Ottawa has 20 heritage conservation districts, ranging in size from the enclave of 23 modernist houses in Briarcliffe and…

CTV NEWS Montreal

The City of Montreal is celebrating a big win after a Superior Court judge has compelled the owner of two crumbling heritage buildings to take action.

The two…

CBC NEWS, By Kate Porter

The owner of Magee House is once again vowing to save the historic building, barely two weeks before it's…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

The municipal elections on October 22 provided an opportunity to consider the vital role of heritage places in our urban, suburban and rural environments.

To see…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

Carleton University’s School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies is hosting a free symposium, HERITAGE IN REVERSE: Material Values, Waste and Deconstruction, to be held…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

A new report by award-winning heritage conservation expert Julian Smith expresses concerns that the integrity of Ottawa's designated Heritage Conservation Districts is being…

CAPITAL CURRENT, By Jackie Bastianon, Michael Charlebois, Caroline Mercer

On a bright autumn day in Hintonburg, pedestrians cross Wellington Street to avoid a stretch of sidewalk that has…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By David Reevely

Hintonburg’s Magee House got closer to demolition Tuesday, as city council’s planning committee approved plans to tear the historic building down for public…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Aeden Helmer

A Rockcliffe Park home designed by famed architect Hart Massey has been designated a site of national significance in an announcement by Parks Canada.…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

The City of Ottawa recognizes outstanding achievements in heritage conservation with the Ottawa Heritage Awards, formerly known as the Ottawa Architectural Conservation…

CBC NEWS

Two years of conflict over plans to expand the historic Fairmont Château Laurier got Carleton University architecture professor Mariana Esponda thinking.

Why not invite her…

CBC NEWS, By Laura Osman

The city has ordered the owner of the historic and long-vacant Somerset House to make crucial repairs to the building in hopes of preventing it from deteriorating…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By David Reevely

Hintonburg’s half-collapsed Magee House has to be torn down, the city’s committee on heritage buildings agreed Thursday.

The same meeting included a…

CBC NEWS, By Laura Osman

The city's built-heritage committee has given the owner of Magee House approval to tear the historic building down, ideally before the snow falls.

It's…

CBC OTTAWA, By Krystalle Ramlakhan

The owner of Magee House, a historic property in Ottawa's Hintonburg neighbourhood that partially collapsed in July, has applied for a demolition permit…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Jon Willing

The rest of the crumbled Magee House in Hintonburg should be torn down, the city has determined.

The Built-Heritage Sub-Committee next week will…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

In a media release today, Heritage Ottawa expressed support for strong measures being put in place to protect Somerset House from further deterioration.  Located at the…

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…