By Apartment613

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...

Apt613 Photo Essay: Lesser Known Buildings

Ottawa-the national capital, often overshadows Ottawa-the place to live. This is particularly true in architecture, where institutions like parliament...

Monumental Monuments

As the national capital, Ottawa is in the somewhat unique position of housing many of the country’s significant and historical monuments. For the...

The Apartment613 Blogger Consultation on Budget 2010

Ottawa Graffiti: A Photo Exposé

Tattooed onto the concrete skin of the city, graffiti plays an ambivalent role in the aesthetic of the urban spaces. While the sprayed, drawn or painted...

Ottawa’s architectural gems – from this weekend’s Apartment613

This weekend Apartment613 Featured several photos from our Flickr pool that reflected some of the city’s architectural diversity. A conversation...

Beyond the urban horizon

Back when there were only two licensed restaurants in all of Ottawa (in the 1960s, or so the old-timers tell us ) a cabinet minister from Quebec used to...

Six steps to better memory: Lansdowne digest by Apartment 613

-Editors note: Our colleagues at Apartment 613 will be guest blogging on Spacing Ottawa every Wednesday; the following is the first post in this series...