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…

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, 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…

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, 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…

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'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…

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 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…

CBC NEWS, By Laura Osman

A plan to restore the long vacant and derelict Somerset House has been cancelled, which could leave the heritage building undeveloped for years to come.

City…

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…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Jon Willing

The city is taking the “most aggressive action” yet on the stagnant renovation to the historic Somerset House in Centretown, the city’s heritage boss says.…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

Carleton University’s School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies and Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism are co-hosting the fourth annual Herb Stovel Memorial…

Take action! Sign the petition calling for heritage funding in the 2019 Federal Budget.

Heritage Ottawa believes that Canada's historic places deserve support — and we…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Matthew Pearson

Children who were in kindergarten on the day Somerset House partially collapsed in October 2007 are in high school, now and there’s a good chance they’ll…

CTV Ottawa
 

The Wellington West BIA is calling on the city of Ottawa to speed up its work on Magee House.

In a letter sent to city staff, the BIA says  it is…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Taylor Blewett

In front of a room packed to the brim with members of the public, Gatineau city council passed a heritage designation for the city’s downtown Museum…

CBC NEWS

Gatineau city councillors voted to place a heritage designation on the neighbourhood around the Canadian Museum of History Tuesday night, effectively killing plans for two highrise…

CBC NEWS, By Joanne Chianello

Worried about leaving a former convent in Westboro empty too long, city councillors on Ottawa's planning committee approved a plan Monday to attach a nine-…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Kelly Egan

Does Canada even need official residences for its leading dignitaries?

We’re today cornered with the question. Since taking office in 2015, Prime…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Taylor Blewett

While Gatineau city council is officially voting on a heritage designation for its downtown Museum District on Tuesday, it’s also a referendum of sorts on…

CBC NEWS, By Laura Fagan

Peter Ferguson and his comrades with the Lowertown Community Association have fought countless battles with developers over infill projects in their downtown…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Jon Willing

The National Capital Commission on Tuesday revealed its spending plan for the $55 million in repair funds earmarked in the last federal budget, but the…

CBC NEWS, By Kate Porter

A developer has resumed plans to gut an art deco heritage building in downtown Ottawa and integrate its facade into a new 27-storey tower to be built behind it.​…

CBC NEWS OTTAWA, with files from Elyse Skura

For a handful of summer students at the National Capital Commission, Quebec's Archeology Month is more than a neat opportunity to dig for hidden…

OTTAWA CITIZEN EDITORIAL BOARD

There is no doubt Ottawans value their heritage buildings. The long-running debate over an addition to the Chateau Laurier and the even-longer-running…

The following article appeared in the "Athena Cultural Crusader" section of the August 8 issue of COUNTRY LIFE, a weekly U.K. magazine with a focus on arts, travel and architecture.

The…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By David B. Flemming

The recent partial collapse of the late 19th-century Magee House – a heritage designated building on Wellington Street West – raises the question of how…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Jon Willing

The old Westboro convent is still at the centre of a development controversy, with the owner on Thursday failing to win approval from the city’s heritage…