Montage du jour : Une vue du boulevard René-Lévesque depuis la rue St-André

10 comments

1. I absolutely love these before-after collages. Keep them coming please!

2. I second that opinion, these comparisons are great.

3. I don’t like the material used for most sidewalks here. I have noticed some concrete sidewalks in some US places look good even when they are ruin down because they have some kind of brownish color that makes them look vintage or something. They keep using that ugly raw gray material here for new developments. It looks good for the first few years but then it looks terrible when it’s dirty.

4. Despite the second scene being a lot grayer*, the building on the left is a big improvement, with the setback, the trees and the balconies, even though I like the yellow brick of the prior one. Anyone know when it was built and by whom?

   (*And yeah, the sidewalks could use a better mix, same thing happened to the formerly nicely aged sidewalks on my block when they dug it all up for pipe replacement two years ago. The new ones do look worse as they age. It’s a variation of the architects’ disease of only thinking in three dimensions instead of four – not planning for change and wear – as Stewart Brand put it in his book How Buildings Learn.)

5. It was built in 1978.

6. Merci!

7. L’immeuble de gauche (photo 2) est la Résidence Mont-Carmel. Il s’appelle ainsi parce que derrière l’immeuble de gauche (photo 1) se dressait la petite église Mont-Carmel, qui était fréquentée surtout par la communauté italienne du centre-sud.

8. Voilà qui est intéressant. Merci encore pour la photo M. Desjardins !

9. Et merci encore, de moi aussi!

10. De rien !