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The City of Ottawa has received an Official Plan and Zoning By-law Amendment applications to permit a 25-storey high-rise mixed-use building with 392 residential units, 30 visitor and 113 residential vehicular parking spaces located in two levels of underground parking, 200 bicycle parking spaces and 500 sqm. of parkland.

The proposed redevelopment consists of a high-rise, mixed-use building consisting of a 25-storeytower with a six-storey podium. Due to the grade changes on the site, as noted above, the podium steps down to a four-storey height towards Loretta Avenue South to the west. Four studio, 254 one bedroom and 134 two-bedroom units are proposed, resulting in a total of 392 dwelling units. A total of143 parking spaces are proposed with 131 spaces located in two levels of underground parking accessed from Champaign Avenue South and 12 at-grade spaces accessed from Loretta Avenue South, resulting in 0.36 spaces per unit. A total of 200 bicycle parking spaces are proposed with 190 located in the underground garage and 10 located at grade, resulting in approximately 0.5 spaces per unit. One, 217 square metre commercial unit is proposed along Champaign Aveune South. A municipal park is proposed at the north-east corner of the subject site representing 10% of the overall site area amounting to approximately 500 square metres.

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The podium of will generally include grey brick masonry and light colour aluminum panels on the façade. The lower floors of the podium will animate the greenspace and street level with a mix of walkout units, retail, and lobby space. The tower cladding incorporates white aluminum panels that contribute to the prominence of the development as a component of Ottawa’s skyline. The design features of the building will be finalized at a future time through the corresponding Site Plan Control application.
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This rendering is different than the one posted on RFC Community Discord. I'm good with either one. The one above has those twisted vertical elements like Azure Westboro, and the one below's angle would make it stand out from afar.

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This rendering is different than the one posted on RFC Community Discord. I'm good with either one. The one above has those twisted vertical elements like Azure Westboro, and the one below's angle would make it stand out from afar.
It won't be that one. In the UDRP doc it more or less says "hey, we thought about this design but ultimately aren't doing this because of the park doesn't fit as nicely with this design"
 
This looks great! I don't know why, but I've lately become a big fan of metal panel cladding over brick. Even if the building ends up as a typical CharcWhite, I'll usually give a pass if it uses aluminum panel cladding. Something about them just look so sleek and futuristic, whereas brick just looks antiquated and boring. I'm also kind of happy Ottawa skipped the "all blue glass tower" phase that Toronto went through in the 2010's.

Also, is it just me or has anyone else noticed that Ottawa has been getting some much nicer looking proposal designs in the last year or two? Yes, there's still the occasional crappy RLA designs that pop up, but the majority of new proposals lately seem to be much more attractive than what we are used to.
 
This looks great! I don't know why, but I've lately become a big fan of metal panel cladding over brick. Even if the building ends up as a typical CharcWhite, I'll usually give a pass if it uses aluminum panel cladding. Something about them just look so sleek and futuristic, whereas brick just looks antiquated and boring. I'm also kind of happy Ottawa skipped the "all blue glass tower" phase that Toronto went through in the 2010's.

Also, is it just me or has anyone else noticed that Ottawa has been getting some much nicer looking proposal designs in the last year or two? Yes, there's still the occasional crappy RLA designs that pop up, but the majority of new proposals lately seem to be much more attractive than what we are used to.
Yeah, things have improved, especially with a few out of town developers, but even local developers have upped their game.

Though the metal cladding is nicer and more modern now, it might get old eventually. I remember when charcoal brick was hip and new 10-15 years ago.
 
Nice to see Project1 Studio getting more and more big projects like this. Their buildings tend to turn out quite nice
 
That podium is so giant, it looks like two separate buildings at the ground level. I do like this proposal anyways, it will stand out with what's there - which is a nice contrast. That area is going to look so dense and pretty much it's own extension of a hyper dense downtown. Once The Sky, the hospital, and Claridge's new tower go up with that redevelopment of the federal lands right next door... it's going to be insane how that place is going to look.

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You'd think with the wild success of Food Basics on Lyon, Grocery stores would realize how lucrative dense urban markets are and start spamming the downtown area food deserts.
The UDRP highlighted this more or less saying "add more commercial including the option for a grocery store". The Respondent more or less said "ceilings are high so it might work, right now we are happy w/ the floor print provided"
 

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