Image credit: OAWOttawa Architecture Week (OAW), an annual week-long festival organized by the Ottawa Regional Society of Architects (ORSA), is returning to the city for its latest edition.With help from local volunteers and businesses, the event welcomes the public to explore architecture, urbanism, art and design in Ottawa.From tours to lectures, panel discussions, exhibitions, workshops, and more, the event aims to create a dialogue between architects and designers and everyday residents about how built environments shape everyday life. Highlights of the festival include a movie night, trivia night, panel discussion night, OAW Talks, and more.This years theme, Mapping the Market: Spatial Anchors & Planned Histories, focuses on the ByWard Market neighbourhood in Ottawa, and explores the idea of mapping memories to honour the past while also imagining its future.The ByWard Market stands at the intersection of history and possibility. One of Ottawas oldest neighborhoods, it has long been a site of cultural exchange, architectural layering, and collective memory. But as the city grows and development accelerates, we are called to ask, how do we honour the past while imagining a future that is inclusive, sustainable, and rooted in place?' reads OAWs website.We invite everyonefrom long-time residents to first-time visitorsto join in reimagining the ByWard Market not just as a historic site, but as a living, breathing urban landscape where memory and innovation can coexist.This years festival will run from September 22 to October, 3, 2025. It includes tours of the Canadian War Museum, Ismaili Imamat, and Notre Dame cathedral, panel discussions, a movie night, a trivia night, a sketching tour, and more.For more information, click here.The post Ottawa Architecture Week returns for 2025 edition appeared first on Canadian Architect.