By Kristen Gagnon

Kristen is the magazine’s architecture critic and editor. She is a member of the Doors Open Ottawa Advisory Council and is currently writing a PhD dissertation on popular architecture criticism in Canada, at Carleton University.

Architecture

Why not wood? How good architecture and a sense of material, could help the Chateau Laurier addition finally get it right

When the new design for the highly controversial Chateau Laurier addition was shared with the public in early February, it was... Read More

Architecture

Review: National Arts Centre Architectural Rejuvenation Project Phase I

By the time you read this, HRH Prince Charles will have already cut the ribbon on the first phase of the $110.5 million architectural... Read More

Events

EVENTS: 2015/16 Ottawa Design Lecture Series

With September marking the start of a new academic year, the past weeks have seen the announcement of multiple public, design-based... Read More

Headlines

Easy as 1-2-3: The simple absurdity of the site selection for the ‘Memorial to the Victims of Communism’

triad: noun tri·ad \ˈtrī-ˌad also -əd\ 1:  a union or group of three : trinity 2:  a chord of three tones consisting of a root with... Read More

Bikes

Image of the Moment: Westboro’s Complete Street

Image: Ottawa’s first ‘complete street’ Location: Churchill Avenue, Westboro, Ottawa, Canada Date of photo: June 13... Read More

Architecture

A Crack of Light, A Crack of Hope – A Night with Daniel Libeskind

Daniel Libeskind, in conversation with Professor Stephen Fai Speaking poignantly the night before the 70th anniversary of the... Read More

Curiosities

Ottawa’s ‘Little Toronto’: Lansdowne Park’s lack of local

Having grown up in Toronto, the move to Ottawa found me at first feeling slightly claustrophobic and disconnected from the... Read More