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Heritage Ottawa brings you heritage-related news and developments from Ottawa and the National Capital Region.

  • A Better Location for Memorial to the Victims of Communism
    Monday, February 9, 2015

    HERITAGE OTTAWA, By Leslie Maitland

    Heritage Ottawa supports the position of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) that the proposed Memorial to the Victims of Communism be...

  • Invitation to the 2015 Ottawa Architectural Conservation Awards
    Monday, February 9, 2015

    Celebrate Heritage Day on February 17 by attending the Ottawa Architectural Conservation Awards!

    Mayor Jim Watson, Councillor Tobi Nussbaum, Chair of the Built Heritage Sub-Committee, and...

  • OMB Ruling on Sandy Hill Project Reveals Need for Change
    Friday, February 6, 2015

    HERITAGE OTTAWA, By Leslie Maitland

    The recent OMB ruling in favour of a developer's proposal to build new student housing in Sandy HIll points to certain weaknesses in our city's heritage...

  • Architects Urge Relocating Victims of Communism Memorial
    Thursday, February 5, 2015

    OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Don Butler

    An organization representing 4,800 Canadian architects has joined the growing chorus of opposition to the site selected by the federal government for the new...

  • OMB Overturns Council Decision on Sandy Hill Student Housing
    Tuesday, February 3, 2015

    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...

  • Proposed Sandy Hill Student Residence Gets OK from OMB
    Friday, January 30, 2015

    OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Matthew Pearson

    A Sandy Hill landlord can build a 180-unit private student residence that city council had tried to stop, the Ontario Municipal Board has ruled.

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  • Chief Justice McLachlin Alarmed By "Bleak" Designs For Victims of Communism Memorial
    Tuesday, January 27, 2015

    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 the Victims of...

  • Federal Study Centre To Be Transferred to Canada Lands
    Thursday, January 22, 2015

    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...

  • Architect Daniel Libeskind to Lecture at National Gallery
    Wednesday, January 21, 2015

    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...

  • NCC Unveils New Design for 7 Clarence
    Wednesday, January 14, 2015

    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...

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