Architecture

Across the Ottawa Spaces: 24 October 2012

Starting off: CBC Ottawa reports on the unveiling of the city’s draft budget for 2013. Many details announced, leading off with the 2.09 % property...

Across the Ottawa Spaces – 13 October 2012

Eric Darwin notes the progress in setting up the bike path paralleling the current O-Train route, and recounts the story of another aspect of the Greber...

Across the Ottawa Spaces – 28 September 2012

Some recent links of interest… Urbsite profiles the history of the main branch of the Ottawa Public Library. West Side Action author and Spacing...

Architecture Week 2012

You think you know a place, a building. Maybe it’s because you live in it, or work there. Or you’re a regular visitor, perhaps. Then you get...

Somerset @ Bell Street – 2012 versus 1938

Somerset & Cartier – 1938 versus 2012

Source : Bibliothèque & Archives Canada/ Library & Archives Canada

Former Sparks & Wellington Intersection – 1938 versus 2012

For a bit of history on that former triangular block Bay-Wellington-Spark on OpenFile Ottawa. Source : Bibliothèque & Archives Canada/ Library &...

Place du Portage – Hull

Lebreton Flats – 100 years ago.

Elgin & Sparks – ~1900 versus 2012

The building on the right is the Russell House. It got damaged by a fire in 1928 and then demolished.

Musée canadien de la nature – Canadian Museum of Nature

Source: From Ottawa with Love, by Peter Hessel, NCC, 1979

Rideau Canal Looking South – about 1900 versus 2012

Source: From Ottawa with Love, by Peter Hessel, NCC, 1979