Ottawa Architecture Week
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We are a growing city. As we fill in and build upwards, intensification brings up intense feelings and diverse perspectives. It reminds us that the city is a collective project.
Beyond addressing the housing needs of a growing population, we face the design challenges of how to move through the city, and how to create opportunities for social connections in and across our neighbourhoods.
OAW ’14 explores the impacts of growth and asks us to consider how we manage intensification and continue to make Ottawa a more livable place.
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by Sarah Gelbard via yowLAB Look in any city’s newspaper any given week and you are likely to come across the story of a development proposal and the predictable ensuing resident outrage. Sadly, th…
by Sarah Gelbard via yowLAB Two and a half years after moving back to Centretown, I finally gave in to the nagging of my friends and threw a belated housewarming party. As you might expect, moving …
Condo developments have both positive and negative impacts on the local neighbourhood and city as a whole. Promoting projects that will have a net positive impact is part balancing private interes…