Yearly Archives: 2008

A Beijing Subway interchange station at rush hour

BEIJING, CHINA — One of the bizarre things with the Beijing Subway‘s interchange stations, like Xizhimen (西直门) in the northwest of central Beijing...

Student fined $628 for sitting in a park

Lawbreakers? Photo by Karu-san Watch out, Montrealers: if you sit anywhere in a park other than on a park bench, you could be risking a $628 fine. At...

Photo du jour: Spring vs. Habs

As the Montreal Canadiens advance in the playoffs, the visibility of this particular flag is steadily decreasing. This photo was taken on April 25, 2008...

Metro party tomorrow night

Three McGill students will be celebrating their birthdays and the end of the school term with a metro party tomorrow night. Guests are asked to bring...

Proje(c)t(ions)s urbain(e)s

WHAT? Ideas for the Van Horne/Rosemont viaduct and its surroundings WHERE? Dare-Dare’s art space at St. Laurent and Van Horne WHEN? Tuesday, April...

Photo du jour: Pedestrian tunnel

Sometime in the 1930s, a pedestrian tunnel was built between Lafontaine Park and the Notre-Dame Hospital on Sherbrooke Street. It has since closed and...

Photo du jour: Carré St-Louis

St. Louis Square, July 24, 2007

Toronto Tuesday : Fruit in the City, Freedom of information, and Free ROM

Each Tuesday, Spacing Montreal will share with you some posts from our sister blog, Spacing Toronto. We hope it will enable constructive dialogue on the...

Photo du jour : Café rue Notre-Dame

Bâtiment disparu #7 : Le club st-James

Vers 1870 Il est difficile de s’imaginer aujourd’hui que se trouvait autrefois en plein quartier des affaires, un club privé de style...

Meet Opus: smart card “launch” part II

The new smart card is being launched today…but may not be available until September. Although the Gazette published an article about the launch with...

Meet Opus, your new smart card

Maybe it’s just me, but when I think of Opus, it’s the neurotic, herring-addicted penguin from the Bloom County comic strip that comes to...