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Photo of the Week
Parking space between 229 and 233 Deschamps AvenuePhoto: VanierNow, September 2012.
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Taking Stock: Vanier’s Built Heritage
A cluster of homes on Emond Street (1910 to 1925)In her 1961 classic, The Death and Life of American Cities, Jane Jacobs writes of four conditions deemed necessary for the creation of vibrant...
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Montreal Road: Architectural Snapshots (of what was and what was meant to be)
Here in Ottawa, this week is Architecture Week, with a festival of talks, tours and films (even a pub crawl) organized by the Ottawa Regional Society of Architects – all oriented to the celebration and...
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Vanier’s Omnicentre: An earlier vision for Montreal Road
Conceptual drawing of Phase One of the Omnicentre (more renderings below; click to enlarge) In 1976, in response to challenges “to combat stereotyped urban development patterns favouring suburban...
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A Modernist Gem on Montreal Road
The Bell building at 225 Montreal Road (click to enlarge)In our final post during Architecture Week, we look to one last building on Montreal Road – this one having been constructed in the mid-20th...
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For Lease: Space Available
Clockwise from top left: (1) public map of DownStreet Art locations; (2) street signage; (3) “Beyond the Blue Mountains,” film by Mollie Davies, Artery Gallery; (4) entrance to William Oberst Studio;...
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Photo of the Week
Remnants of the old City of Vanier. Location? We'd prefer not to disclose. (Photo: VanierNow, 2012)
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Inspired by the Past? A November forum invites ideas on Vanier’s future
Sketch, bicycle and pedestrian crossing [over the Vanier Parkway]: one suggestion (click to enlarge) (Source: City of Vanier (1976) NIP Redevelopment Plan, p 104) Though not a particularly fanciful...
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Photo of the Week
Millcraft Village, a 23-building housing development located on McArthur Avenue. (Photo: VanierNow 2012)
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MacKay, meet Barrette: renewing Beechwood for today’s community
Beechwood Avenue, late 1980s: Foreground: Art Gallery, 86 Beechwood; Background: El Meson, 94 Beechwood (Source: Heritage Canada Foundation, 1988).Reports last week of Minto’s imminent purchase of the...
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Update on 250 Montreal Road
(red) Location of the four-storey parking garage at corner of Levis and Begin; (green) Proposed buildings for Montreal Road; (yellow) Bus Loading Zone along Levis Ave (click image to enlarge) Earlier...
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Vanier Snack Shack – Poutinized!
By Catherine Brunelle (originally posted on bumpy boobs; October 25, 2012) This evening, I ate a cheese-stringy, gravy covered, steaming hot bite of the neighbourhood at The Casse-Croute Vanier...
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Church History
Writing any story about Vanier without making reference to one of the many churches that dot the landscape of this one square mile is a challenging effort at best. Interesting to note, however, is that...
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Notre-Dame Cemetery: New website commemorates one of Ottawa’s most historic...
VanierNow is pleased to introduce a new website devoted exclusively to Notre-Dame Cemetery—the largest Catholic cemetery in the Ottawa-Gatineau region. In collaboration with Jean Yves Pelletier, a...
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Vanier Remixed
Imagine St Charles Square become (once again) our community hub, with French-Canadian music and dancing giving way to the contemporary beats of DJs, break dance, slam poetry and Les Mosquitos– while...
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Gamman House reborn: Vanier’s bellwether property?
Gamman House (Photo & Design: VanierNow 2012; Floor Plan: City of Ottawa)What could it mean to create spaces for culture? Transforming existing under-used or unused spaces – particularly those in...
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