Orange Tarps on the Rideau

Here's a faux-Polariod i shot about a month ago, on one of my first bike rides of the year. Evidently, uOttawa is rebuilding the entire western half of its Lees Avenue campus from the ground up, part of a larger modernization project. The OOE Mainstreeter has an article here. For many years the eastern campus of Algonquin College, the post-secondary facility opened as the Eastern Ontario Technical Institute (EOTI) in the fall of 1964. Prior to WWII, the site was a garbage dump.

Here's a "long, low" shot of the original buildings from August 1964 via the Ottawa Citizen.

2 Robinson Avenue

 Here's an eye-grabber from the Ottawa Business Journal...

"A Montreal company wants to build more than 1,600 residential units as part of a five-tower development at the former site of the Iranian Cultural Centre in Sandy Hill.

Place Dor​ée Real Estate Holdings has filed an application with the city for a plan that would see four highrises of 30 storeys each as well as a nine-storey building at 2 Robinson Ave.  

Located near the intersection of Nicholas Street and the Queensway, the wedge-shaped, 5.7-acre plot of land used to be the home of the Iranian Cultural Centre. The facility closed in 2012 after the federal government under then-prime minister Stephen Harper expelled Iranian diplomats from Canada..."

Full article here.

"Place Dor​ée" has approximately zero web presence.