This month, The ReadME Project Senior Editor Mike Melanson talks to a few developers to get their thoughts on how to keep up (or not) with the times. What do you do when suddenly everyone around you is shouting about functional programming when you’re happily plugging along writing C++? Or when your beloved back-end language is suddenly making moves to the front end? Or when a JavaScript library suddenly seems like it’s taking over the world? How do you flow with the times as they slowly, almost imperceptibly shift beneath your feet? But paradigm shifts happen while you’re busy making pull requests. There’s seemingly endless articles on the topic, and most advise how to keep up with all the fast-paced changes of the tech world. 'This is a people centred building, and I know that it’s difficult to imagine that a year into a pandemic, but this a building to bring people together.They say that developers always need to be learning. Luloff says that the facility will also provide exhibition and event spaces, areas for the community to gather.

“This is going to be the centrepiece of the Lebraton Flats redevelopment, and certainly a world-class building,” says Ottawa Library Board chair and Coun. McCluskie also says the building will be home to Indigenous art throughout the facility. 'It’s definitely affected the architecture of the project,' says McCluskie, 'For example, we have a very specific round room, Wig-Wam iconography very central to that, and in all cases done in consultation with the community.' The design, having input from residents and First Nations Indigenous communities. The stone and wood exterior reflects the adjacent escarpment, and its shape is reminiscent to the flow of the Ottawa River.

'The way in which libraries, public library and in this case the Library and Archives Canada both of them saw (the) project as an opportunity to really take a step forward in the 21st century,' says Gary McCluskie, principal architect with Diamond Schmitt Architects. It’s a connector, it will connect people,' McLachlin tells CTV News Ottawa during an interview. 'It will be a place of gathering, a place of meeting a place where people can come regardless of their social status or background - it’s an equalizer in that sense. The facility will be more than just a place to house books. 'I think it’s an amazing design,' McLachlin says. Beverley McLachlin, is getting behind the project, as the Honourary Chair of the Ottawa Central Library Fundraising Campaign. The Ottawa Public Library Board reviewed the designs for the $192-million project during a meeting on Tuesday, which is expected to officially open in 2025.įormer Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, the Rt. The new building, which will house the Ottawa Public Library main branch and Library and Archives Canada has a finalized design. If you’ve been curious as to what Ottawa’s future central library will look like, new artists’ renderings will give you a better idea.

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