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…

GLOBAL NEWS | OTTAWA, By Beatrice Britneff

The committee that reviews applications to redevelop Ottawa’s heritage properties has rejected Ashcroft Homes’ latest bid to repurpose the site of…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Jon Willing

There was virtually no mortar holding the stones together on a wall that crumbled off a Hintonburg heritage building last week, according to the engineer…

CBC NEWS, By Laura Osman

The City of Ottawa's built heritage subcommittee rejected the latest plan for the contentious Sisters of Visitation Convent on Richmond Road on Thursday, hoping to…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

Do you agree that Canada's historic places deserve support?

Liberal Member of Parliament John Aldag (Cloverdale-Langley City, B.C.) is sponsoring a petition that…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Kieran Delamont

The city is moving quickly to deal with the Magee House, which was missing the better part of its west-facing wall, by knocking part of the building down…

CBC NEWS OTTAWA

Crews are demolishing part of the decades-old Hintonburg building that partially collapsed earlier this week.

The southwest corner and a portion of the roof are being…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Joanne Laucius

More than 130 years after the death of Frances Magee, the stone house on Wellington Street still retains the name of an energetic Irish widow who became a…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Jon Willing and Joanne Laucius

The historic stone building that crumbled in Hintonburg this week was one of 23 properties on a heritage watch list for deterioration, but…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Kieran Delamont

A wall on a historic building in Hintonburg partially collapsed just after 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday night.

Ottawa Fire Services is continuing to…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Matthew Pearson

In order to capitalize on its plan to redevelop an old federal complex on Booth Street, Canada Lands Company is asking the city to remove height limits…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

City Council voted unanimously on June 27, 2018 to approve the Built Heritage Sub Committee’s (BHSC)…

GLOBAL NEWS, By Beatrice Britneff

Council agreed today that planners have more work to do on the design of the Château Laurier expansion, a controversial process that has dragged on for…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Jon Willing

The drama at city hall over the Château Laurier’s proposed addition should go silent until the next term of council.

Council on Wednesday voted to have…

CBC NEWS, By Laura Osman

The president of Heritage Ottawa is warning city councillors they may be about to lose their last chance to veto the design for a modernist addition to the Château…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Jon Willing

There wasn’t much fuss over the proposed Château Laurier expansion during Tuesday’s planning committee meeting.

Councillors simply approved a…

EDMONTON SUN, By Jon Willing

City council could neuter itself on Wednesday as Ottawa’s watchdog for heritage properties when it considers kicking the final design responsibility for the…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

The following text was formally submitted by Heritage Ottawa to the Built Heritage Sub-committee for consideration at its meeting of June 18, 2018. President David Jeanes…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

Architectural visionary Phyllis Lambert, widely considered one of the world's most influential figures in architecture, has written a letter to Mayor Jim Watson to express…

THE HTA BLOG, By Peter Coffman

Several objections were raised at last Monday’s meeting of the Built Heritage Sub-Committee to the proposed extension of the Château Laurier. The thread that…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

Today is an historic National Indigenous Peoples Day for Ottawa. On this day, the City established the permanent presence at City Hall of the flags of the Algonquin…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By David Jeanes

The following is offered in rebuttal to a column by Mohammed Adam (Ottawa Citizen, June 11) about the proposed addition to the Château Laurier:

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'We want to feel the addition loves the Château as much as we do'

CBC NEWS, By Laura Osman

The architects behind a controversial addition to Ottawa's Château Laurier still don't have…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Jon Willing

The city’s built-heritage subcommittee is recommending the architects of the Château Laurier addition go back to the drawing board.

The panel of…

Savanturier Blog,  By Andrew Waldron

Imagine it is 2030 and over the past decade the Château Laurier addition has been derided not only for its misunderstanding of architecture, but…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Dave Reevely

The latest plans for an addition to the Château Laurier would have been a good starting point. They can’t be the end.

Two years after throwing up a…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Jon Willing

Ottawa city council’s decision on the controversial Château Laurier addition will come down to how the proposal stacks up against the rules, not the feelings…

CBC NEWS, By Ryan Tumilty

City staff are recommending council approve a proposed addition to the iconic Chateau Laurier that heritage advocates have denounced.

In a report released…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Jon Willing

City heritage planners support the Château Laurier’s proposed design for its glassy seven-storey addition, despite hearing strong opposition from the…

CBC NEWS | OTTAWA, By Laura Osman

The architect behind the maligned Château Laurier addition is defending his latest design, and hoping once it is built people will come to believe the…

CANADIAN ARCHITECT

Now in its fourth iteration, a plan by architectsAlliance to expand Ottawa’s iconic Château Laurier  continues to meet a frosty reception.

Designed in…

CONSTRUCTION CANADA

Heritage Ottawa has slammed the latest designs for a new seven-storey addition at the rear of the Château Laurier hotel in downtown Ottawa. The preservation group is “…

THE NATIONAL POST

OTTAWA — A preservation society is blasting the redesign of an addition to Ottawa’s stately Chateau Laurier hotel as “heritage vandalism,” but the lead architect on the…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

As part of Welcoming Ottawa Week (WOW), June 18 to 30, 2018, the Ottawa Local Immigration Partnership, Heritage Ottawa, City of Ottawa and Immigration, Refugees and…

THE HTA BLOG, By Peter Coffman

We have now seen yet another version of the proposed subtraction from the Château Laurier.  I know I’m supposed to call it the “addition to” the Château…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Matthew Pearson

Heritage Ottawa has come out swinging against the latest plans for an addition to the venerated Château Laurier, calling the proposal “the most…

CBC NEWS

The latest attempt at designing a major addition to Ottawa's historic Château Laurier is "the most disgraceful act of heritage vandalism of our generation," according to…

GLOBAL NEWS, By Christopher Whan

“The most disgraceful act of heritage vandalism of our generation” is how Heritage Ottawa describes the redesign of upgrades to the Château Laurier in a…

HERITAGE OTTAWA | STATEMENT OF JUNE 3, 2018

Owners of the Château Laurier have unveiled their latest design for a proposed addition to the venerable historic hotel, a National Historic Site…

HERITAGE OTTAWA | STATEMENT OF JUNE 3, 2018

Owners of the Château Laurier have unveiled their latest design for a proposed addition to the venerable historic hotel, a National Historic…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Tom Spears

Memo to the Trudeau family: You’re smart to stay out of 24 Sussex Drive. Engineers say its walls might drop pieces of rock on those who live there.

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OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Jon Willing

The owner of the Château Laurier has filed a new design for its proposed addition, attempting to make the contemporary wing complement, not overwhelm, the…

CBC NEWS OTTAWA, By Laura Osman

The applicant has received some public feedback that expressed concern about the…

OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Kieren Delemont

Carleton University has finalized a deal to purchase the Dominion-Chalmers United Church, which it intends to turn into a “multi-purpose downtown…

ARTSFILE OTTAWA, By Peter Robb

Carleton University has announced that it has completed  negotiations to purchase Dominion-Chalmers United Church. 

The acquisition was made…

CTV NEWS OTTAWA, By Joanne Schnurr

The Andaz Hotel in Ottawa's ByWard Market could soon have a twin tower attached to it. Claridge Homes is hoping to build a 19-storey addition to the…

THE GLOBE AND MAIL, By Adam Stanley

The building used to be painted an undesirable mustard-yellow.  Now it’s known more for the golden ales and lagers poured inside.

In Ottawa’s…

HERITAGE OTTAWA

Heritage Ottawa invites members and their guests to attend its Annual General Meeting on Thursday, May 24 at the Glebe Community Centre, beginning at 7:00 pm.

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WHEN: Saturday, June 9, 2018

Join Heritage Ottawa on a special day-long field trip to historic Almonte and Carp!

Our bus trip offers two fascinating guided tours, the Mississippi…

CBC NEWS | OTTAWA, By Laura Osman

A developer hoping to build a four-storey apartment building on Kent Street has been ordered back to the drawing board to prevent the structure from…