NCC chief planner to speak at CCA AGM; affordable housing workshop; library’s future in Centretown; trees needed on boulevards; change to height limits
CCA report: AGM, affordable housing, library, trees
Category: Heritage
Skyline: A landmark building redux – still “iconic”?
Robert Smythe reports that Taggart Group has iced its second and even more ambitious foray into landmark land. Plans for their swoopy 34-storey, pointy-topped, attention-getting tower at 359 Kent Street at Gilmour have been scaled back for a much more sober, squared-up, one might say, garden-variety building.
Centretown Community Association report: rink volunteers, tree canopy, heritage district, safety
Dalhousie Community Association report: Plouffe Park, Plant Pool, walk the block for trees, affordable housing
Meeting envisions a brighter future for 330 Gilmour
At a packed meeting, architecture student Emily Essex outlined many possible public uses for the former OBE Administration building at 330 Gilmour, which has sat for two decades empty and unused.
Heritage Skyline: Plouffe Park fought to survive in its first 15 years
Plouffe Park ranks among the City’s oldest parks – and, like the community it serves, this patch of green has been tenacious in fighting for its survival.
290 City Centre to get heritage status?
The small red-brick building currently housing the Orange Art Gallery is now on the road to getting heritage status.
News shorts: Somerset House, Urbanism Book Club
City Council approves Somerset House plans; Urbanism book club to discuss Walkable City.
More news shorts: advice for older houses, 180 Argyle still for sale, Project Safe Trade
Heritage Ottawa workshops for owners of older houses, YMCAstill for sale, police announce downtown safe trade zone
Centretown Community Association report: new heritage district, Canal-side district, walking tours, Elgin Street Market, who to call
The Centretown Community Association is working to create two new Heritage Conservation Districts, and to turn the Queen Elizabeth Driveway into a park.
Fall Festival attracts hundreds on a fine day
Letter: a use for Somerset House
A meeting place for Centretown?
Can the former Ottawa Board of Education Administration building at 330 Gilmour Street be saved? A researcher will describe how it might be repurposed at a meeting Sept. 25.
CCA report: Fall Festival, new heritage district, help new neighbours, fall veggies
A heritage drop-deadline: High noon for Ottawa’s historic buildings list?
The tsunami of Ontario’s recent bull-in-a-china-shop land use laws has inflicted unintended collateral damage on the preservation of heritage buildings in Ottawa.
Skyline: What’s old is new in two recent developments
Robert Smythe explains that there’s now some hope for Somerset House, and outlines the how a prominent Brutalist office building is being converted into apartments.
Orange Art Gallery facing eviction; heritage building to be left empty
The Orange Art Gallery, which has occupied a heritage building on the west edge of Centretown for the last decade, is facing eviction by the end of the year – with no other tenant scheduled to move in.