The Senate of Canada Building Ottawa Project, Canadian Beaux-Arts Architecture Images
The Senate of Canada Building
Central Train Station Redevelopment in Canada ? design by Diamond Schmitt Architects
28 Feb 2019
The Senate of Canada Building in Ottawa News
Design: Diamond Schmitt Architects
Location: 2 Rideau Street, Ottawa, ON K1N 8X5, Canada
The Senate of Canada Building Opens
February 28, 2019, Toronto ? A historic landmark in Ottawa has opened in a new role as interim home to Canada?s upper house of Parliament.

photo : Tom Arban Photography
The Senate of Canada Building beautifully restores and transforms the Beaux-Arts central train station (1912) with an architecture and craftsmanship that both complements and contrasts the celebrated features of the original building.
photo : Tom Arban Photography
The design by Diamond Schmitt Architects and KWC Architects introduces a contemporary language of interventions and insertions within the monumental and finely detailed General Waiting Room and Concourse. The program also adds committee and meeting rooms, offices and public space to a building that has largely been off limits to the public for 50 years.

photo : Tom Arban Photography
?This project provided a remarkable opportunity to investigate and engage in a range of design innovations to introduce a new program in a heritage building, to represent and raise the profile of the Senate?s role in Parliament, and to convey Canadian identity through contemporary int...