1 Report to/Rapport au : Built Heritage Sub-Committee Sous-comité du patrimoine bâti and/et Planning Committee Comité de l'urbanisme and Council / et au Conseil May 22, 2013 22 mai 2013 Submitted by/Soumis par : Nancy Schepers, Deputy City Manager/Directrice municipale adjointe,Planning and Infrastructure/Urbanisme et Infrastructure Contact Person / Personne ressource: John Smit, Manager/Gestionnaire, Development Review-Urban Services / Examen des projets d'aménagement- Services urbains Planning and Growth Management/Urbanisme et Gestion de la croissance (613) 580-2424, 13866 [email protected] RIDEAU-VANIER (12) Ref N°: ACS2013-PAI-PGM-0119 SUBJECT: APPLICATION TO RECONSTRUCT THE FORMER OGILVY’S DEPARTMENT STORE, 124 RIDEAU STREET, A PROPERTY DESIGNATED UNDER PART IV OF THE ONTARIO HERITAGE ACT OBJET : DEMANDE DE RECONSTRUCTION DE L’ANCIEN GRAND MAGASIN OGILVY’S, 124, RUE RIDEAU, DÉSIGNÉ AUX TERMES DE LA PARTIE IV DE LA LOI SUR LE PATRIMOINE DE L’ONTARIO REPORT RECOMMENDATIONS That the Built Heritage Sub-Committee recommend that Planning Committee recommend that Council: 1. Approve the application for the reinstatement and integration of the facades of the former Ogilvy’s department store into the expanded Rideau Centre, in accordance with plans submitted by Barry Padolsky and Associates Architects, Inc., received on May 9, 2013; 2 2. Delegate authority for minor design changes to the General Manager, Planning and Growth Management Department; and 3. Issue the heritage permit with a two-year expiry date from the date of issuance. (Note: The statutory 90-day timeline for consideration of this application under the Ontario Heritage Act will expire on August 7, 2013.) (Note: Approval to alter this property under the Ontario Heritage Act must not be construed to meet the requirements for the issuance of a building permit.) RECOMMANDATIONS DU RAPPORT Que le Sous-comité du patrimoine bâti recommande au Comité de l’urbanisme de recommander à son tour au Conseil : 1. D’approuver la demande d’intégration des façades de l’ancien grand magasin Ogilvy’s à l’agrandissement du Centre Rideau, conformément aux plans soumis par le cabinet d’architectes Barry Padolsky and Associates, qui ont été reçus le 9 mai 2013; 2. De déléguer au directeur général du Service de l’urbanisme et de la gestion de la croissance le pouvoir d’approuver des modifications mineures à la conception; et 3. De délivrer le permis en matière de patrimoine, qui expirera deux ans après sa date de délivrance. (Nota : Le délai réglementaire de 90 jours d’examen de cette demande, exigé en vertu de la Loi sur le patrimoine de l’Ontario, prendra fin le 7 août 2013.) (Nota : L’approbation de la demande de modification aux termes de la Loi sur le patrimoine de l’Ontario ne signifie pas pour autant qu’elle satisfait aux conditions de délivrance d’un permis de construire.) BACKGROUND The former Ogilvy’s department store was located at the corner of Rideau and Nicholas Streets (see Location Map, Document 1 and Street views, and Bird’s Eye View, Document 2). It was constructed in four phases from 1906 until 1934 to the designs in Werner Ernst Noffke (1906-07 and 1917) and A.J. Hazelgrove (1931 and 1934) (see Historic Photograph, Document 3). Starting out as a small three storey structure with five bays on Rideau Street and seven on Nicholas Street, by the time it was complete it was five storeys high and stretched back 15 bays on Nicholas Street. It was distinguished by its Greek key spandrel panels, wood windows, distinctive cornices and rounded corner (see Statement of Reason for Designation, Document 4). 3 In October 2000, Council recommended the former Ogilvy’s department store for designation under Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act. The owner at the time, Viking Rideau, appealed the Notice of Intention to Designate in accordance with the Ontario Heritage Act; however, a Conservation Review Board hearing on the proposed designation was never held and the appeal was withdrawn. The building’s designation by-law was passed in 2012. On November 9, 2000, Viking Rideau applied to demolish the building as part of the preparations for an expansion project. A report refusing permission to demolish was prepared for the consideration of Committee and Council. Council did not refuse permission to demolish, but approved it with 11 conditions. These included allowing the demolition if certain facades were retained, allowing the top two storeys to be removed, allowing the building to be dismantled and reconstructed if its retention in situ during construction was not feasible, permitting construction on the roof if it was set back from the front façade and a number of other conditions related to securities and recording of the historic building. In April 2006, Barry Padolsky and Associates Architects, Inc. submitted an application to dismantle and reconstruct the facades of Ogilvy’s in accordance with the Council-approved direction of 2000. Of the approaches approved by Council, the application to dismantle, store and reinstate as retention in situ was deemed to be too costly. As approved, the final Ogilvy’s after reconstruction was to be three storeys in height, with five bays along Rideau Street and seven along Nicholas Street. After these approvals were granted by Council, the project fell into abeyance until autumn 2012 when a new owner, Cadillac Fairview, revived the project and initiated the planning process to permit not only the dismantling and reconstruction of Ogilvy’s but also the overall expansion of the Rideau Centre to accommodate a number of high profile new tenants. During the winter of 2012-2013, the former Ogilvy’s department store was dismantled and demolished. The decorative items (spandrel panels, cornice), windows and masonry identified for re-use were removed, marked and stored to await reassembly. The rest of the building was then demolished, leaving a vacant lot. This was consistent with the Council directions of 2001 and 2006 and the Heritage Permit issued on May 1, 2006. The current application is to allow the heritage facades to be rebuilt and incorporated into the Rideau Centre Expansion project. Minor variances to allow the Rideau Centre project to proceed were considered at the Committee of Adjustment on June 5, 2013. Site Plan Control approval, including review by the City’s Urban Design Review Panel is also required for this project. DISCUSSION Project Description The Cadillac Fairview Corporation Limited is undertaking the Rideau Centre Expansion, a large multi-stage project that includes the construction of a new four-storey building that will incorporate the former Ogilvy’s department store facades, the construction of an 4 addition to the present Rideau Centre on the parking lot facing Rideau Street to join it with the new Ogilvy’s building, a wing to the south of the new Ogilvy’s building, the refurbishment of the cladding of the entire building, the rehabilitation of the of the pedestrian overpasses and the introduction of entrances at 10 Rideau Street to serve the proposed Rideau Street Light Rail Transit station (to be considered through a separate application under the Ontario Heritage Act). When completed, the expanded Rideau Centre will have approximately 26 new retail units, two new restaurants, and 375 more parking spaces. The section of the Rideau Centre expansion that is the subject of this report is the construction of a new four-storey building that will feature the reinstated Ogilvy’s facades and be linked to the Rideau Centre. The reinstated Ogilvy’s, described by the applicant as a glazed cube, will be 19.4 metres high topped by a solid volume, that will appear as a modified cornice, 2 metres in height, set back from the property line approximately 4 metres. The glazed cube will feature a mixture of clear and fritted glass which will sit inside the walls of the reconstructed Ogilvy’s facades. There will be two recessed glass bays separating the glazed cube with its reinstated Ogilvy’s facades from the main part of the expanded Rideau Centre. Each of these will be the width of one of Ogilvy’s historic bays, to allow the former facades to continue to be viewed as separate and distinct from the rest of the shopping mall. The recessed bays will serve as the link to the two new parts of the Rideau Centre; one of these will be on the vacant land to the west of the former Ogilvy’s and the other will be on the site of the former 1930s additions to Ogilvy’s and will extend south to Besserer Street. The glazed cube will rise above the cornice of the rebuilt Ogilvy’s, bringing the structure up one storey more than the reinstated building, to a total of four storeys. On the interior, Ogilvy’s previous floor-to-ceiling heights will not be duplicated and thus the floors of the shops and restaurant of the glass cube will not line up with the reinstated windows. (For Elevations, Perspectives and Site Plan, see Document 5.) The rest of the Rideau Centre will be extensively altered. It will be re-clad, new doors and windows will be introduced, the pedestrian overpasses will be refurbished, and the Colonel By Drive and MacKenzie King Bridge façades will be altered. This work is not the subject of this report. Former Ogilvy’s Facade Reinstatement The Ogilvy’s façades and decorative elements were removed and stored over the winter of 2012-2013. They elements that are being re-used are currently being restored off-site by heritage conservation specialists. Other elements that are not being re-used, but that have some significance, will be stored. The work includes restoration of heritage masonry, metal details and windows.