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The Peace Tower is the centrepiece of the Parliament of Canada as shown here. Parliament of Canada. Peace Tower; Library of Parliament; Ottawa City Hall; Ottawa Courthouse; Supreme Court of Canada; National Library and Archives of Canada; Langevin Block; Cartier Square Drill Hall; East and West Memorial Buildings; Bank of Canada building ...
This is a list of the tallest buildings in the Ottawa—Gatineau urban area that are over 90 m (295 ft) tall. Despite its size, Ottawa–Gatineau does not have many skyscrapers that exceed 100 m (330 ft) compared to similar sized Canadian cities, Edmonton and Calgary .
The architecture of Ottawa is most marked by the city's role as the national capital of Canada. This gives the city a number of monumental structures designed to represent the federal government and the nation. It also means that as a city dominated by government bureaucrats, much of its architecture tends to be formalistic and functional.
The parliament buildings also departed from the Medieval models by integrating a variety of eras and styles of Gothic architecture, including elements from Britain, France, the Low Countries, and Italy, all in three buildings. In his 1867 Hand Book to the Parliamentary and Departmental Buildings, Canada, Joseph Bureau wrote
The home of the Public Archives of Canada from 1906 to 1967, and the Canadian War Museum from 1967 to 2005, this building was constructed as part of Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier’s efforts to transform Ottawa from a lumber town into a capital city with requisite cultural and civic amenities and architecture
Buildings and structures in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. ... Pages in category "Buildings and structures in Ottawa" The following 56 pages are in this category, out of 56 ...
City of Ottawa Workshops: 7 Bayview Station Road: Kitchissippi: 1941: Joseph Holmes Irvine: City Registry Office: 70 Nicholas Street: Rideau-Vanier: 1874: City Waterworks Building and Aqueduct: 10 Fleet Street: Somerset: 1873–74: Thomas Keefer: Clarke House: 43 Gilmour Street: Somerset: 1898: Clearview: 2607 Old Montreal Road: Orléans East ...
The building was built by Olympia and York in 1971 as the Ottawa headquarters of Bell Canada. The site originally contained a number of small commercial buildings and the large Gloucester Street Convent. Original plans called for the complex to be much larger and include the entire block to the north. This would have entailed demolishing ...