Entries tagged with renovations

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Trash Nothing: Something Noticed This Morning

Know anyone in the Ottawa-Gatineau area who can find a use for these publications?

https://trashnothing.com/beta/post/42902832/fine-homebuilding-woodworking-old-ottawa-south?uid=5804038

Current Mood: curious

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Ottawa: Legion House Expansion Proposal

I'm watching the Built Heritage Committee meeting about this (and other proposals) at the moment.

I didn't know that the old Legion House had already had three extra stories tacked on three years after it was originally opened up. That precedent being established, I'm only mildly surprised by this proposal to raise it to 30 stories. Details here:

https://devapps.ottawa.ca/en/applications/D01-01-21-0015/details

Current Mood: nerdy

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Booth Street Bridge Replacement - Bridges Stages - 16 Aug 2022

We've got a lot of infrastructure modifications going on across Ottawa. So, if video footage by drone fuels your appetites, have a look at this...

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Speaking of Design Training

I've still got some degree of privilege, despite my financial situation this past year. Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to look at those video tutorials. Or, for that matter, read and pass this along:

http://jlord.us/blog/osos-talk.html

Nor would I be able to look at this (and thanks to

kiaa for passing it along via

talkpolitics):

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/seven-secrets-revealed-by-2020-by-yanis-varoufakis-2020-12

Getting to the point: we still want to leave the Time of Pandemic to enter a newer, better "Normal" than we entered it from. Right?

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Current Music: "Trapdoor" - Stars of Montréal

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Rideau Street Renewal

At least McKenzie King Bridge Station will see some more bus-catching traffic again for a few more months...?

https://ottawastart.com/rideau-street-to-close-april-26-for-renewal-work/

Current Mood: busy
Current Music: "Take It Like a Stoic" - Ideas on CBC Radio

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Website Renovations

I've been getting some overdue updating done to my home website's various pages. Which still need work, I'm sure.

Also, since Google Plus is no more, I needed a way to get some Google Photos albums to where people can see them. So, I've done an update on the Artblog.

Current Mood: busy
Current Music: "Transient" - Orbital

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CANADA: Can we do better?

Yes, I'm on the Broadbent Institute mailing list for reasons.

So I'm looking this over right now...an opinion piece by one Marshall Auerbach. I don't recall reading their work before, but I want to look this over carefully.

https://www.broadbentinstitute.ca/canada_s_response_to_the_coronavirus_better_than_the_us_worse_than_eu

Current Mood: curious

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PHOTOS: Blair Station - 19 December 2015

Some discoveries in the cold.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/dwight_ew/albums/72157661954288159

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: CFL: Sask. Roughriders vs. Mtl. Alouettes on TSN

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Another page done...

... for Local Hero: scanned, composed and sent off to Ian today.

Also, the library portion of the studio continues its perpetual renovation process apace. More room cleared for newer and better shelving. Gotta keep those how-to books, design reference volumes and general visual inspiration tomes as organized as possible.

And then, there's the recreational reading as well. But more on that another time.

Back to you...