Images of Centretown

Christopher Ryan had a timely post on Ottawa Start about Connor Court , describing one of the low-rise apartment buildings built in the fir...

Today for the fourth and final entry of the sidewalk-design series, I'm going to give a history of sidewalk design, starting at the esta...

Finding room for all road users in the constrained area of an existing road allowance is tough. Especially on streets in the downtown core, ...

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

After last week's community meeting to discuss the Centretown CDP , the CCCA 's Board of Directors will meet tomorrow evening, Tuesd...

I haven't written much about the Export Development Canada building at 150 Slater since the three-part series on the demolition and exc...

For the second 3D Thursday post, I should return to Centretown. The old Ottawa Board of Education building at 330 Gilmour is a nice buildin...

There's no Peds on Weds post today, as my list of pedestrian topics is full with complaints and problems, and I'd like to identify s...

I get very irate by people parking on the sidewalks (and I have many photos of such transgressions, which I tag with "vanscaping")...

Last February, I was pretty frustrated by the string of potholes that runs right down the middle of Lewis Street, between O'Connor and B...

[I ran out of time to prepare a more topical post, either Museum of Nature Opening Day part 2 or CCCA updates for Tuesday's meeting (som...

I've got a lot of good series that I'll be working on over the holidays. Look for them to come out in the new year. In the meantime,...

Looking up from the ground floor of the World Exchange Centre 's atrium, looking through the skylight to the tower along O'Connor: D...

Sitting quietly at 90 Elgin Street, between Albert and Slater, is the Lorne building. Built half a century ago to house the National Gallery...

In the Previous Post , I documented the construction of the traffic island on MacLaren at O'Connor, which reinforces the "no going ...

The orphan plot in the island at MacLaren and O'Connor will be the subject of a Guerrilla Gardening event this Saturday, 10am to noon. H...

In the previous post on 150 Slater's progress , I documented the construction of retaining walls around the former Rideau Winter Club b...