Images of Centretown

Part 12: 50 Years of Rapid Transit in Ottawa     [Show/Hide Contents] NCC Boost and Interprovincial Bus Loop Regional studies lead to fir...

Part 6: Postwar traffic on Wellington     [Show/Hide Contents] Jacques Gréber's Downtown plan, 1939 Gréber's 1949 Plan for Canada...

In the first weekend of May, the tower crane for Broccolini's hotel/condo at 199 Slater went up. This is right across the street from th...

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

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

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,...

Albert and Slater streets, which carry Ottawa's Transitway buses through the downtown core, are narrowed by a lane so that the City can ...

Taken on the sunny Sunday last weekend at the 150 Slater construction site. Make sure to keep your tires inflated, otherwise you'll get ...

[Edit November 2010: I hear that this project will not be going forward.] Tomorrow, Tuesday 23 February 2010, the City of Ottawa's Plann...

At the corner of downtown Ottawa's Bank and Slater streets is a large but relatively unspectacular looking nine-storey office tower. The...

I've got a very big post coming up on another building with a rich history. I did most of the preliminary research a couple months ago, ...

[This post is part of a series on Bank Street's new look. See the introduction and part I here . Due to a typo, this post didn't go ...

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

It was sheer coincidence that I got this photo at the time I did. The angle of the crane's arm perfectly matches the angle of the shadow...