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CBC Ottawa Production Centre

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The main design feature of the Production Centre is that it appears as a typical multi-storey office building on the Queen Street frontage, whereas the Sparks Street frontage is consistent with the low-rise development on the pedestrian mall. Given the significant terracing of the building's Sparks
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in Ottawa south, but budgetary cutbacks in the 1980s and 1990s led to the sale of that building and to a drastic downsizing of the head office staff. Prior to the opening of the Production Centre, the remaining head office staff shared space with the television operations in the Westboro building.
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Although the building was designed to revitalize Sparks Street, critic Rhys Phillips described the building as "just another low-cost, banal building." Visitors and non-CBC employees working on the building's upper floors must access the building from Queen Street, thus directing pedestrians away
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Street façade above the fourth floor and the grade differential between Queen Street and Sparks Street, the building is 12 storeys on Queen Street, but appears to be only four storeys in height from ground level on Sparks Street.
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services, consisting of 200 editorial staff in the National Capital Region, operate in both English and French out of the main newsroom to produce content for radio, television and the internet.
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Several of the studios and the newsroom are located at ground level on Sparks Street, allowing the public to observe from outside through 4-metre (13 ft) high windows. Eight different
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from the pedestrian mall. A pathway linking the Queen Street lobby to Sparks Street was cut from the original design to make room for a larger newsroom. Councillor
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Previously, the CBC operated out of various buildings throughout the city. The radio division occupied the sixth floor of the
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View of the CBC Ottawa Building from above, showing the terracing of the upper floors facing Sparks Street
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pedestrian mall. The site had been vacant for several years and had previously been home to a
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and the Booth Building on Sparks Street. The CBC head office previously occupied the
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called the building "the biggest disappointment" and "a whole block of deadness."
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administration (Information Services). It is located at 181 Queen Street, between
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is an office and studio complex the serves as the headquarters of the
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The building that houses the Ottawa Production Centre was built by
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View of the CBC Ottawa Building from street level on Sparks Street
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neighbourhood. The CBC's Parliamentary Bureau operated out of the
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hotel, while the television division operated out of the
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CBC Ottawa Broadcast Centre
Façade of the production centre
Headquarters
Production centre
Queen Street
Ottawa
Coordinates
45°25′14″N 75°42′06″W / 45.420418°N 75.701541°W / 45.420418; -75.701541
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Morguard Investments
Public Services and Procurement Canada
cbc.radio-canada.ca/en/services/facilities
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Queen Street
downtown Ottawa
Ontario
English
French
National Capital Region

Morguard Investments
House of Commons
Bank Street
O'Connor Street
light rail station
downtown core
Sparks Street
Woolworth
CBC News

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