Perilous View
View of emergency vehicles passing under the chinatown arch. Continue reading Perilous View
View of emergency vehicles passing under the chinatown arch. Continue reading Perilous View
There is a brief bit of European shabby chic right now on Somerset, where Kelly’s funeral home is getting a refit. Continue reading European shabby chic on Somerset
The City approves rezoning 125 Hickory to 20 & 16 floors, provided a footbridge is precipitated. Opponents preferred an 11 storey development. However, a few blocks away, proposals for a 9 storey and 5 storey condos were condemmed as too high. Continue reading Rainmaking at Planning and Environment Committee
It takes all types of people to make up a world. Unfortunately, some of them are jerks. Continue reading What streetscaping? I didn’t see no plants!
Sculptors took Ottawa residents on walking tours of the Wellington Marbles and Postcards from the Piazza. Continue reading Walking and talking sculptures
City social housing activists promise a Housing Answer at no cost to the city. Of course there’s a catch. Continue reading Housing Shell Game
A case study of motorists being lemmings down on Somerset Street. Continue reading Somerset Lemmings Spotted (common or vulgaris sp.)
It’s sculpture mania in Ottawa: the first of the Wellington Marbles sculptures are now up. Continue reading Of Alley Pots and Marbles
Postcards from the Piazza — a series of 15 sculptures along Preston Street — was unveiled Monday night. Continue reading Presto: Preston Postcards
Balconville: some Ottawa building feature recessed balconies and some sport them on the exterior of the facade. The recessed ones look better, here are some examples. Continue reading Balconville
Three modes of travel; three different degrees of space consumption, with drastic consequences for our urban form. Continue reading Graphic demo of road use
The very name crossWALK is pedestrian oriented. Carleton U has a neat crosswalk that handles cyclists and pedestrians and motorists very well, all in one neat package. Can we have more of these, please? Continue reading Bicycle Crosswalks
Guest post on new infill housing project on Catherine Street, Beaver Barracks is green, urban, trendy … and affordable. Continue reading Green, Urban, Trendy…and affordable
More pictures of the sculptures just installed on Preston Street. Continue reading More Postcards from Preston
The first group of sculptures was installed as part of the Preston mainstreet revitalization program. Stunning ! Continue reading Preston Street sculptures installed
Eye-catching sculptures will soon be installed along West Side mainstreets as part of the major construction projects that have transformed neighbourhoods with new infrastructure and beautiful streetscapes. Continue reading Walk and talk sculpture on the West Side
Bike racks and bikes prove to be disposable at apartment renovation site. Continue reading Bikes — and racks — hit the Dumpster
OBrien and Watson mention transportation in their campaign re-launches. Continue reading And on the other hand(s)
Ugly Betty Building Better Brown is a real stretch: extension poles are useful. Continue reading Ugly Betty Building Better Brown is a real stretch
Clive Doucet’s transportation plan has five key planks, only one of which thrills me. The rest leave me cold. Continue reading On the Left Track
At sunset, along the Canal near Bronson, a Heron stands on a post. Continue reading At the corner of Heron and the Canal
Many changes have been made to the park behind the Hintonburg community centre and Ecole St Francois. Continue reading Ecole St Francois d’Assise
The City Centre warehouse/office complex on City Centre Avenue near the Bayview Otrain station is often derided as the ugliest (commercial) building in the city. Actually, there are other contenders. And a frequently mentioned ugliest (residential) building is not so far away. The owners — Equity International — have recently made some changes to the building. About a year ago, the huge Citv Centre red neon signs were removed from the top of the building. Then earlier this year, the building was washed. Now it’s undergoing a brownwash. The horizontal concrete stripes around the building are being painted black. While I give thanks that the building … Continue reading Ugly Betty Building Better Brown?
After relentlessly mocking the City for its proposals to widen Bronson, and to make the sidewalks narrower, and for its myopic focus on commuter-traffic-and-damn-all-the-rest, word percolates out of City Hall today that the scheduled Bronson stakeholder meeting for the fall has been postponed to allow the engineers time to examine a road diet for Bronson. Continue reading Bronson Engineers Going on a Diet !
Here is a stop-light pitch for candidates for City Councillor, a one-line cycling policy. Continue reading The stop-light pitch