Images of Centretown

Today is Family Day and the last day of Winterlude, which makes for a good place to finish my series about my time as a member of the Rideau...

In Part 1 of this three-part series, I explained how I got my start on the Rideau Canal Skate Patrol. I left off in 2009, the year after we...

The 40th edition of Ottawa's Winterlude festival has opened this weekend, and its crown jewel, the Rideau Canal Skateway, is enjoying a ...

Suppose you're going to spend $18.5 million on a 12-storey (later 16-storey) condo building. You might build it with exclusively one-be...

Both the Ottawa Citizen and the Centretown Buzz did stories about the love locks on the Corktown Footbridge in advance of Valentine's...

This past weekend, Citizens for Safe Cycling 's third annual Family Winter Bike Parade ended at 8 Locks' Flat , where a number of bi...

On the left, the snow accumulation on Bank Street's west sidewalk from the previous snowfall. On the right, the mostly-bare road and sid...

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...

Near the end of December as the Rideau Canal skateway was agonizingly close to opening, I went on a Bike Ride along the canal one night to t...

There has been a fair amount of criticism of the Toronto-style sidewalk design since it was made the standard in the City of Ottawa in 2006,...

Two years ago to the month, the house at 179 Waverley Street in the Golden Triangle suffered a two-alarm fire. The following week I posted ...

During warm/wet spells like the one we got a couple weekends ago, I bring a sidewalk scraper around with me to clear away some of the more p...

Over at the Kenniston Apartments , which is the name of the retail/apartment complex that contains the Lieutenant's Pump, there are thre...

On Twitter yesterday I asked if I today's 3D photos should be of the Rideau Canal or of the World Exchange Centre theatres, the only vo...

For quite some time now, I've wanted to do a thorough writeup on what in Ottawa traffic-geek circles is referred to a "Toronto-styl...

There was a brief period in the design for the Bronson Avenue reconstruction when the consultants responded to residents' desire for mor...

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