1500 Bronson Avenue
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It originally served as the headquarters of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, but significant CBC budget cutbacks in the 1990s led to the relocation of the head office staff in 1997. The building was later occupied by the Communications Security Establishment (CSE) and was renamed in honour of Lt. Colonel Edward Drake, the first director of its predecessor organisation, the Communications Branch of the National Research Council.
The Communications Security Agency moved out of the building from 2014 to 2015, after their new facility was completed in Ottawa's east end. This new CSE campus was then officially named the Edward Drake Building, taking the name from their former location.[2]
1500 Bronson Avenue occupies a large site bordered by Riverside Drive, Heron Road and Bronson Avenue. For more than four decades, it has been a landmark in south Ottawa as it is set apart from any other buildings, and it was particularly known for the large CBC/Radio Canada logo on one wing of the building (since removed). It has been designated as a "classified federal heritage building," which means that it is a federal government building that has been assigned the highest level of heritage protection.[1]
See also
- Victoria Building (Ottawa) - CBC Head Office 1938-1964
- CBC Ottawa Broadcast Centre - CBC Head Office since 2004
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External links
- Ottawa Regional Society of Architects - Edward Drake Building
- Historic Places of Canada - Edward Drake Building
- Treasury Board of Canada Inventory - Edward Drake Building
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- Federal government buildings in Ottawa
- Modernist architecture in Canada
- Canadian Broadcasting Corporation buildings
- Communications Security Establishment buildings and structures
- Government buildings completed in 1964
- Intelligence agency headquarters
- Office buildings in Ottawa
- Classified Federal Heritage Building
- 1964 establishments in Ontario