^ VERY cool picture! Love the density of downtown (if only it was taller )
What is that they are building on the mid-level rooftop, some sort of rooftop park? IF so, will it be available to the public kind of like the one on top of Rideau Centre?
Jim Flaherty to be honoured with naming of new Finance Canada HQ
Former finance minister Jim Flaherty to have Finance Canada building named after him
By James Fitz-Morris, CBC News Posted: May 17, 2014 5:00 AM ET Last Updated: May 17, 2014 5:00 AM ET
The federal government is planning to name Finance Canada's new headquarters the James M. Flaherty Building in honour of the late finance minister, CBC News has learned.
Flaherty passed away suddenly last month, just weeks after stepping down from his cabinet post.
He served as the federal finance minister from 2006 until March 2014, most notably during the financial crisis of 2009 that triggered the great recession.
Flaherty Building
The Lorne Building in downtown Ottawa is under redevelopment and sources say that when completed its name will be changed to honour one of Canada's longest-serving finance ministers.
The previous building on the site was named after John Campbell, or as he was more commonly known at the time, the Marquess of Lorne, Canada's third governor general.
The Department of Finance is scheduled to begin moving in to the new headquarters toward the end of this year.
I find it a little odd and awkward, like a gangly teenager, hopefully it grows out of that as the landscaping matures and the materials weather. But I think the sides (i.e., along Slater and Albert) will always be a little weird, with all of the different articulations; it's not so much that something's missing on those sides to my eye, but that they're too busy.
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