place

Dream LeBreton

National Capital CommissionResidential buildings in Ottawa
Dream lebreton construction site
Dream lebreton construction site

Dream LeBreton is a residential project part of the NCC’s LeBreton Flats Master Concept Plan. The project consists of two city high-rise buildings just outside downtown Ottawa. The architecture firms involved in the project include Perkins & Will, KPMB Architects, which were supported by Two Row Architects and Purpose Building. The National Capital Commission selected the project through a design competition. The residences are part of a housing development initiative to generate sustainable, affordable housing in a developing area. The buildings include various types of condos while also including retail, food, health services, and a daycare. The buildings consist of 601 housing units, of which 246 will be affordable units, reaching 31 and 36 story's high and 721,000 square feet. The project launched in 2023 and is set to be complete by 2027.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Dream LeBreton (License: CC BY-SA 3.0, Authors, Images).

Dream LeBreton
Albert Street, Ottawa Centretown (Somerset)

Geographical coordinates (GPS) Address Nearby Places
placeShow on map

Wikipedia: Dream LeBretonContinue reading on Wikipedia

Geographical coordinates (GPS)

Latitude Longitude
N 45.4136 ° E -75.7119 °
placeShow on map

Address

Albert Street 706
K1R 7G5 Ottawa, Centretown (Somerset)
Ontario, Canada
mapOpen on Google Maps

Dream lebreton construction site
Dream lebreton construction site
Share experience

Nearby Places

National Holocaust Monument
National Holocaust Monument

The National Holocaust Monument (French: Monument national de l'Holocauste) is a Holocaust memorial in Ottawa, Ontario, across from the Canadian War Museum at the northeast corner of Wellington and Booth Streets, and about 1.5 km away from Parliament Hill. The memorial has been designed by Daniel Libeskind.The National Holocaust Monument Act (Bill C-442), which established plans to create the memorial in Canada's capital, received Royal Assent on March 25, 2011. The law was introduced as a private members bill by Tim Uppal, Minister of State and MP for Edmonton—Sherwood Park and received unanimous support.The monument features a view of the Peace Tower and photographs by Edward Burtynsky. The team was led by Lord Cultural Resources.The monument is overseen by the National Capital Commission. The monument was planned to be unveiled in the fall of 2015, but later pushed back to the spring of 2017 due to delays in construction. The official unveiling occurred on September 27, 2017. In 2017, when the National Holocaust Monument of Canada was unveiled in Ottawa, the opening plaque made no mention of the six million Jews killed by the Nazis. Subsequently, chair Rabbi Daniel Friedman took responsibility for the error.The monument was built due to the persistent activism of former University of Ottawa student, Laura Grosman. Laura began advocating for a monument to be built commemorating the Nazis atrocities and as a beacon of light for Canadian Holocaust survivors. She campaigned and met with various Members of Parliament to support the introduction of a Private Members Bill. She is the granddaughter of a Polish-born Holocaust survivor.

Memorial to the Victims of Communism – Canada, a Land of Refuge

The Memorial to the Victims of Communism – Canada, a Land of Refuge is a controversial monument that as of July 2021 is currently under construction in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It was originally to be erected on a site between the Supreme Court of Canada and the National Library of Canada but in December 2015, Canadian Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly suggested that the National Capital Commission instead approve a 500 square metre site half a kilometre to the west, in the Garden of the Provinces and Territories. Under the revised timeline, a national competition was held in 2016 and 2017 to select a new design for the monument. The site was dedicated in a ceremony held on November 2, 2017. Construction began in early November 2019, and was expected to be completed by the summer of 2020, but by the end of 2022 was still not finished, with no construction progress made in 2022. Joly complained that the previous Harper government had made the project too controversial. The new Liberal government has moved the site and cut its budget. She stated: Commemorative monuments play a key role in reflecting the character, identity, history and values of Canadians. They should be places of reflection, inspiration and learning, not shrouded in controversy." The winning design was announced in May 2017 as Arc of Memory designed by Toronto architect Paul Raff in partnership with designer and arborist Michael A. Ormston-Holloway, and landscape architects Brett Hoornaert and Luke Kairys, and was described by the selection committee as follows: The Arc of Memory features two gently curving wall-like metal frames totalling 21 metres in length and almost 4 metres in height. The walls support more than 4000 short bronze rods densely arranged along 365 steel fins, each one pointing at a unique angle of the sun, for every hour of every day, across a year. The memorial would be split in the middle at winter solstice, the darkest day of the year, inviting visitors to step through in a metaphorical journey from darkness and oppression to lightness and liberty.