Chateau Laurier Expansion – Heritage Sub-Committee Recommendations

The planning committee of City Hall may have approved the addition to the Chateau Laurier but the Heritage Sub-Committee is recommending some changes. 

The Sub-Committee did not reject the proposal in its entirety instead they have asked the architects to:

• use more Indiana limestone;
• break up the north face of the addition so the wall facing Major’s Hill Park isn’t so flat;
• change the arrangement of doors and windows, design details and geometric proportions of the addition so that they better match the original building.

Tobi Nussbaum paints a good picture: “We want to feel that the addition loves the Chateau as much as we do,”

Read more at CBC site or Ottawa Citizen.

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