2007-2009
Un nouvel immeuble de 3 étages, très peu attrayant selon moi, remplace désormais une ancienne maison de pierre grise qui fut ravagée par un incendie en février 2007.
Montage du jour : La rue Sainte-Catherine près de St-Mathieu
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Bah, très peu attrayant…
Il ressemble pas mal à ceux d’à coté, avec un look plus moderne un peu.
C’est moche quand meme
I think they just should have gone with something more modern – it would have looked more interesting. This is half-baked attempt at “matching” the old. Yuck.
au moins le nouveau batiment se marie mieux avec le reste que les horreurs des annees 70 comme le batiment a gauche…
Tough crowd!
I think it looks fine. Replacement or infill buildings should blend in with their surroundings and I think this does a good job. If I were just walking by, I probably wouldn’t notice that this was a new building.
Plus, the large windows are a definate improvement for the occupants.
As for the ugly purple sign…
The building works in its context. I agree that it’s successful as infill–I walk past all the time and take little note of it. More than can be said for the disastrous 60’s-70’s crap that Chuck alluded to. Anyway, it’s hardly a good looking neighborhood.
Hell, though, anything would look good next to Bar Diana.
Diana is a legend.
The replacement building does a good job of maintaining the scale/look of the adjacent buildings. The building that irritates me is the beige aluminum covered one on the right.
Does anyone have any photos of the building the day after the fire? I walked by there that day (like most of the neighbourhood) to observe the damage and it looked really cool. All the water used to put fire out froze over the remaining part of the scaffolding and the thing just looked like the most awesome ice palace.
Emmanuel: Here are some photos I took of the ice covered building the day of the fire. http://citynoise.org/article/6782