Architecture
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DOUCET: “Beauty counts”- how Budapest cherishes its World Heritage status
On a bronze plaque, high above the Danube where you have a grand view of the bridges, the Hungarian parliament buildings and the beautiful 19th century...
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Chinatown’s Lucky Eight, with Eric Darwin and Gowalla
The second Spacing Ottawa Gowalla trip went online this week. Drawing heavily on the excellent West Side Action blog by community activist Eric Darwin of...
By Spacing -
Aerial photographer touches down for Urban Forum
_____________________ The organizers at Urban Forum have sent us notice of their next event: Wednesday, February 16th 2011 7:00 pm Ottawa City Hall...
By Spacing -
The Art of Architecture: Filling you in on infill
Hintonburg resident Phil Castro writes about the intersection of urban development, architecture, and the artistic impulse. In this post he looks at a...
By Apartment613 -
Spacing Ottawa’s first Gowalla trip
Cribbing madly from John Leaning’s “Hintonburg and Mechanicsville: A Narrative History“, and the Hintonburg Community Association...
By Spacing -
Skyscraperpage Forum, and keeping it private from the man
Above: A digitally-created image of The Shard London Bridge, expected to be completed in 2012. Copyright holder is the Sellar Group. For 13 years...
By Spacing -
A facade too far
Recently the builders of the Central — a block of condos going in at the corner of Bank and Gladstone –re-installed the preserved facade of...
By Evan Thornton -
The “Grand Dames”: Ottawa’s historic apartment buildings
[flickrslideshow acct_name=”58115594@N04″ id=”72157625788601334″] __________________ The Bytown Museum explores the stories of an...
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MacKenzie King OC Transpo station: worst public space in Ottawa?
[flickrslideshow acct_name=”ekthornton” id=”72157625584286577″ width=”600″] A few weeks ago the Ottawa Citizen...
By Evan Thornton -
Winnipeg wishing well
It’s been six months since we posted about Winnipeg; the last piece about the prairie capital was in high summer when the topic was the city’s...
By Evan Thornton -
Elgin Street courthouse: a bunker by design, or a viewer’s blinkered vision?
The Citizen published another installment of a wonderful feature yesterday. It’s a historical walking tour of Elgin Street by Ottawa writer Phil...
By Evan Thornton -
“What you build relates to people” – Arthur Erickson’s addition to the Bank of Canada
The architect Arthur Erickson died in 2009. Two years before his death, he gave an interview – excerpted in the video above – where he spoke...
By Evan Thornton