Discover the design, Indigenous engagement, and site features of Kiweki Point on a guided walk.

Join ORSA for a guided walk with Jamie Brown through Kiweki Point and get a closer look at how the park came together. The tour begins with the design story: the ideas behind the park and how it was shaped as a public space. We'll talk about the role of Indigenous engagement in the project and how that collaboration informed the design and the way the site is experienced today.

As we move through the park, we'll stop at key site features and monuments, and look at how the park connects to its surrounding context. Along the way, we'll also touch on some of the technical details behind the design, giving a behind-the-scenes look at what it took to bring the project to life.

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Join us for a special guided tour of the West Memorial Building Rehabilitation Project, a federal heritage building transformed into temporary space for the Supreme Court of Canada. The tour will be led by the architects Regenerate 344 - Moriyama Teshima Architects + Kasian Architecture in Joint Venture. This tour invites participants to experience this significant federal landmark project in Ottawa and gain insights from the architects into the project's design vision and technical/construction considerations.

Date: Friday June 26th, 2026

There will be 2 tours

• 2:00 PM-3:30 PM Regster here

• 4:00 PM-5:30PM Register here

Spots are limited, so registration through the eventbrite is required. Please inform ORSA ahead of time if you will be unable to attend.

Join us at the Flux showroom for a Lighting & Architecture Trivia Night hosted by the Ottawa Regional Society of Architects.

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For more info and to register, visit www.janeswalkottawa.ca.

Jane's Walk is offering walking tours as part of the 2025 edition of Ottawa Architecture Week. This year's theme is Mapping the Market: Spatial Anchors & Planned Histories. One of Ottawa’s oldest neighborhoods, the ByWard Market has long been a site of cultural exchange, architectural layering, and collective memory. Changes to Ottawa's downtown are upon us in light of the recent pandemic, city growth, and accelerated development; and changes are being proposed for the Market as part of that evolution: What should we be doing to honour the past while imagining a future that is inclusive, sustainable, and rooted in place?

We invite everyone—from long-time residents to first-time visitors—to join in re-imagining the ByWard Market not just as a historic site, but as a living, breathing urban landscape where memory and innovation can coexist

The ByWard Market in Literature

Join us for an interactive walk through Ottawa's ByWard Market area as we explore some familiar streets and landmarks through works of fiction and poetry. There are so many books we could explore, and so many neighbourhoods across Ottawa, but for this walk we'll stay in the area around the Byward Market.

We'll be doing some readings and/or discussing the choice of setting for selected works, and musing on what the location may be telling us about the meaning of the work as well as the cultural and sociological meaning of the location and of the ByWard Market in general, in the past and in the present.

The following are books we may touch on or read from ((there may be others):

• Amy Tector — The Foulest Things

• Andre Alexis — The Night Piece and Childhood

• Ben Ladouceur — Otter

• Brenda Chapman — Cold Mourning

• Christopher Levenson — Duplicities

• David Blaikie — A Seaon in Lowertown

• Deborah-Anne Tunney — The View from the Lane & Other Stories

• Elizabeth Hay — A Student of Weather

• Gwen Tuinman — Unrest Unrest

• John Barton — Designs from the Interior: Poems

• Joyce Wayne — Last Night of the World

• Katie Tallo — Poison Lilies

• Lea Graham — Calendar Girls

• Nina Berkhout — The Gallery of Lost Species

• Norman Levine — I Don't Want to Know Anyone Too Well and Other Stories

• Rob Mclennan — On Beauty: Stories and The Ottawa City Project

• Susan McMaster — Until the Light Bends

• Terry Fallis — Operation Angus

Note: this is not an exhaustive list of work referencing, or set in, the Byward Market. There are lots more.

About Jane's Walk:

• Our walks are led by volunteers and are free to attend. Check out Tips for Participants.

• We are asking participants to sign up to give us an estimate of attendance. Sign-up instructions are provided on the walk page.

• When you sign up for a walk, you will receive email confirming your reservation.

Indigenous Land Acknowledgement

While you walk, we encourage you to think about and acknowledge the land where we live, work, and walk. The Ottawa-Gatineau region is the traditional unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabe people. The Algonquin People have inhabited and cared for these lands for millennia and we express our gratitude to and respect for them.

Presented by the Azrieli School of Architecture & Urbanism in collaboration with the Ottawa Regional Society of Architects. No registration required, open to all.

About the Forum Lecture Series

Since 1969, the Carleton Azrieli School of Architecture Forum Lecture Series has been an inspiring Ottawa staple, introducing architects, designers, and the general community to the leading architectural thinkers of the day.

In a typical Forum Lecture Series style, the 60–minute lecture will be followed by an informal Q&A session.

The Forum Lecture series is a long-held tradition of the school. First initiated in 1968 and popularized in the 1980s and early 1990s the lecture series is an inspiring event, introducing the Carleton community to leading architectural thinkers of the day. Held during the academic year, approximately one lecture is held per month from the end of September to March. — carleton.ca

For more info and to register, visit www.janeswalkottawa.ca.

Jane's Walk is offering walking tours as part of the 2025 edition of Ottawa Architecture Week. This year's theme is Mapping the Market: Spatial Anchors & Planned Histories. One of Ottawa’s oldest neighborhoods, the ByWard Market has long been a site of cultural exchange, architectural layering, and collective memory. Changes to Ottawa's downtown are upon us in light of the recent pandemic, city growth, and accelerated development; and changes are being proposed for the Market as part of that evolution: What should we be doing to honour the past while imagining a future that is inclusive, sustainable, and rooted in place?

We invite everyone—from long-time residents to first-time visitors—to join in re-imagining the ByWard Market not just as a historic site, but as a living, breathing urban landscape where memory and innovation can coexist

Jacobs 101: The ideas of Jane Jacobs---Examples from the ByWard Market

This walk will introduce the ideas of Jane Jacobs, using ByWard Market streetscapes, buildings, and landmarks to illustrate Jacobs' ideas about the features and characteristics of vibrant streets and neighbourhoods, as detailed in her book The Death and Life of Great American Cities. We'll explore the roles of short blocks, mixed use, ample sidewalks, parks, zoning regulations, and more as we make our way across the ByWard Market.

About Jane's Walk:

• Our walks are led by volunteers and are free to attend. Check out Tips for Participants.

• We are asking participants to sign up to give us an estimate of attendance. Sign-up instructions are provided on the walk page.

• When you sign up for a walk, you will receive email confirming your reservation.

Indigenous Land Acknowledgement

While you walk, we encourage you to think about and acknowledge the land where we live, work, and walk. The Ottawa-Gatineau region is the traditional unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabe people. The Algonquin People have inhabited and cared for these lands for millennia and we express our gratitude to and respect for them.

Ottawa Architecture Week 2025 is happy to present a special tour of the Ismaili Imamat, catered to architecture enthusiasts.

To register, visit our Eventbrite.

OAW2025 Presents: Architecture Trivia Night!

Join ORSA as they host an evening to find out who can quiz their way to the top and be crowned the Architecture Trivia Night Champions! This year’s quiz will feature questions relating to this year’s theme, “Mapping the Market: Spatial Anchors + Planned Histories”, as well as topics on architecture, urban planning, the city and much more. Teams will compete in a standard pub quiz before the top three (3) teams are selected to participate in a final lightning round.

Does your office want to prove they are the smartest in the town? Or do you and your friends have the winning combination of architecture smarts to outscore your opponents? Then sign up NOW before spots are filled.

Where:

Lowertown Brewery, 73 York St.

When:

Monday, September 22nd, 2025, 6:00 - 8:00pm (Doors Open at 5:30pm)

Registration Required: Purchase the amount of tickets equal to the size of your team (maximum five (5) team members). You will be need to confirm your final team size one week before the day in the event we exceed capacity.