Images of Centretown

I haven't blogged much about the Gladstone Avenue reconstruction project , perhaps because as far as street reconstructions go it's ...

I had previously blogged about the "surivivor" trees on Metcalfe which managed to grow despite being in a narrow strip of ground ...

The World Exchange Centre is a shopping centre/office/parking complex that covers the entire block surrounded by Albert, Metcalfe, Queen and...

Metcalfe Street has always been tree-lined , but it feels more constrained after they built apartment buildings right up to the back of the ...

Street trees/ urban trees improve the urban fabric and increase property values. The shade they provide in the summer softens the pedestria...

Happy Labour Day everyone! For today's post, I want to do something a little different. I wanted to give a snapshot of what was happenin...

Decades after construction, some repairs are being undertaken to the PSAC building at 233 Gilmour, prompting me to photograph it. Its distin...

The Transitway stop at Metcalfe Street on Albert Street is under construction, so a temporary one was installed on the West side of Albert S...

Tonight is Heritage Ottawa's free lecture at the Canadian Museum of Nature by project manager Maria Somjen, who will be presenting on t...

In part one of this three-part set of photos from last year's reopening of the Canadian Museum of Nature , I mentioned that the series ...

The Museum of Nature had its grand re-opening last year, appropriately, on Victoria Day weekend (May 22-24). That day, I posted an entry tit...

The Elphin is an apartment building at the south-west corner of Gladstone and Metcalfe. The front entrance is currently being renovated, and...

Back in August, Manulife Financial replaced the signs on its 16-storey Manulife Place building at Queen and Metcalfe. They look a lot bigge...

For fans of the Urban Tree Conservation by-law , including those on the Centretown Citizens Community Association 's Trees & Greensp...

It is not at all uncommon to see garbage on the side of the road outside the Governor Metcalfe apartments at Metcalfe and Waverley, but on a...