Edward Drake Building

Edward Drake Building
Édifice Edward-Drake
Former names	CBC Building
General information
Status	Completed
Architectural style	Modernist
Address	1500 Bronson Avenue
Town or city	Ottawa, Ontario
Country	Canada
Construction started	1961
Completed	1964
Technical details
Floor count	6
Design and construction
Architect(s)	D.G. McKinstry

The Edward Drake Building (French: Édifice Edward-Drake), formerly the CBC Building, is a modernist office building in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada designed by CBC's chief architect David Gordon McKinstry and constructed between 1961 and 1964.

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 the first director of its predecessor organisation, the Communications Branch of the National Research Council.

The building 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.

See also

• Victoria Building (Ottawa) - CBC Head Office 1938-1964
• CBC Ottawa Broadcast Centre - CBC Head Office since 2004

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