By Chris Warden
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Considering Public Space in Ottawa: Library & Archives Canada Building
Editor’s note: This article is cross-posted from Spacing Ottawa contributor Chris Warden’s new website dedicated to modernist architecture in...
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Hop on board with a deadman for another “Where in Ottawa”
With last week’s post on the old Ottawa streetcar system fresh in out minds, this edition of Where In Ottawa tests your knowledge of Ottawa transit...
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“Where in Ottawa?”: a cinema, stripped bare
The answer to last week’s quiz is the Podium Building at Place de Ville. It seems it was a tough one; we had no right answers. Place de Ville was...
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A river runs near it: re-orienting the Carleton quad
Every five years or so, Carleton University revisits its master plan. The most recent draft edition was released in September 2009. Though the campus has...
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Where in Ottawa, Round 2: time for the cheat sheet
No one has correctly guessed the correct answer to last week’s puzzler. To refresh memories, here it is again: While I currently sit unassumingly at...
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Where in Ottawa? – Round 2
First of all congratulations to Charles A-M aka Centretretowner for correctly identifying the former bank’s likeness in the central carved panel above the...
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Where in Ottawa? The answer…sort of
We’ve had no correct answers to our first Where in Ottawa contest. even after two times of asking, so it’s time to move on! The building in...
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Where in Ottawa?
Spacing’s motto is “understanding the urban landscape”. Buildings and streets are major components of that landscape; they are the big...
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Seventeen years and counting for abandoned Ogilvy’s
Getting off the bus on Rideau Street located in front of the Rideau Centre you are confronted with the former Ogilvy’s department store. The five...