eco-cite on the canal | 5 fl | u/c

fireicedog · #1 Posted **Nov 7, 2007, 4:27 AM**

I was taking the 1 from billings the other day and noticed this green project was finally u/c with a operational crane up. There are construction pics on it's site.
http://www.ecocite.com/onthecanal/Canal_updates.html
BTW, strange looking crane.

Also the infill on south bank (south of sunnyside) across from the 7/11 has been completed, around 5 stories, with ground retail.

Finally the G looks to be under construction as well on bank.

AuxTown · #2 Posted **Nov 7, 2007, 4:42 AM**

Wow, I haven't heard much about this project, but I was just reading about the geothermal wells that they dug and it sounds amazing. I didn't know that anyone in Canada was using technology like that, let alone in Ottawa. Great stuff!

Check it out: http://www.geo-exchange.ca/en/whatisgeo/

eemy · #3 Posted **Nov 7, 2007, 12:19 PM**

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Originally Posted by O-Town Hockey

Wow, I haven't heard much about this project, but I was just reading about the geothermal wells that they dug and it sounds amazing. I didn't know that anyone in Canada was using technology like that, let alone in Ottawa. Great stuff!

Check it out: http://www.geo-exchange.ca/en/whatisgeo/

My parents' house up on the Bruce Peninsula uses geothermal heating. It also works as an air conditioning system in the summer.

keninhalifax · #4 Posted **Nov 8, 2007, 12:19 PM**

I like the designs and massings of the buildings that are going up along Bank Street from Centretown through Ottawa South. They really add continuity to the streetwall and respect the scales and characters of the neighbourhoods.

waterloowarrior · #5 Posted **Feb 8, 2008, 4:43 AM**

from
http://www.ecocite.com/onthecanal/Canal_updates.html

waterloowarrior · #6 Posted **Jul 11, 2008, 9:18 PM**

from the website - june 26

Progress on the project is now moving ahead strongly.

Most of the windows have been installed, the brickwork and concrete work is complete. The fibre cement panels that make up the rest of the facade will be installed in the coming weeks.

Most of the interior partitions have been installed and much of the plumbing rough-in finished. All of the radiant heating has been installed, and the fan coil units in each suite that provide air conditioning are in process.

The elevator is waiting in crates in the basement and the geothermal heat pumps are now on site. We expect to complete the roof by July and then, with the building dry, we’ll move quickly to completion, installing the gyprock, flooring, electrical and lastly, the cabinetry.

view from top of building, facing west.

geothermal heat pump balconies

Mille Sabords · #7 Posted **Sep 4, 2008, 2:56 AM**

Taking shape, at long last. I wonder which retailer will occupy the ground floor (my pic):

waterloowarrior · #8 Posted **Nov 27, 2008, 2:22 AM**

november 08

from their website

from Ottawa Urbain

Aylmer · #9 Posted **Nov 27, 2008, 12:08 PM**

Great photos!

Davis137 · #10 Posted **Nov 28, 2008, 8:45 PM**

Great Photo's, but I think the colour choices/combination on the building sucks. Looks totally out of place...

citizen j · #11 Posted **Nov 29, 2008, 2:47 AM**

^Yeah. Looks like they got a deal on some remaindered mismatched aluminium siding. Genuinely horrid! Fortunately, the bones of the building are good. One hopes that at some point, the skin is re-worked.

Mille Sabords · #12 Posted **Dec 1, 2008, 1:29 AM**

Here are some pictures I took today on an errands run through the Glebe:

This will soon be known as Ottawa's "Little Stalingrad":

That corrugated metal is a true disgrace. Obviously, money ran out on them after almost five years:

It does, however, "meet the street" competently:

And it hugs the corner not too badly:

All in all, a background building whose siding will be redone, hopefully, when its lifecycle ends.

Jamaican-Phoenix · #13 Posted **Dec 1, 2008, 1:52 AM**

Oh wow, with architecture like that, no wonder Glebites oppose anything new...

osirisboy · #14 Posted **Dec 1, 2008, 8:09 PM**

wholly crap thats gross

Davis137 · #15 Posted **Dec 3, 2008, 2:40 AM**

Looks like some wannbe Euro-Trash...my appologies for anyone that might be a member here, and bought in this building...

It doesn't match ANYTHING else in the neighbourhood. At least the Condo's built across the street from Kettleman's looks classy...

waterloowarrior · #16 Posted **Jul 13, 2009, 4:54 AM**

robertR · #17 Posted **Jul 13, 2009, 4:19 PM**

There are lots of design issues I am having with this building. If you squint your eyes, it looks a bit better.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mille Sabords

I wonder which retailer will occupy the ground floor

Me too!

OttawaSteve · #18 Posted **Jul 13, 2009, 8:46 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by hackunion

Me too!

Kaleidoscope Kids Books, according to their website and a banner that was hanging in front of the building a while back.

http://www.kaleidoscopekidsbooks.ca/

rocketphish · #19 Posted **Jul 13, 2009, 9:54 PM**

It has that low-income low-maintenance sort of look to it.

adam-machiavelli · #20 Posted **Jul 14, 2009, 2:05 AM**

I wonder how long that aluminum siding will last.