this week I was actually looking up the history of the Shaughnessy house redevelopment into the CCA on the excellent new google news gazette historical archives. Shaughessey house was saved from the developers wrecking ball with no definite plans to become the CCA, but sort of soon evolved into the cca through some not-yet publicly documented process. http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=source:%22montreal+gazette%22
Often I notice in these before-after posts that the trees are shrinking over time. You’d think that with a 100+ year headstart, our trees would win.
Where did the trees go?
Was the eastern “wing” torn down when building the CCA? It almost looks in the first picture like it was added after the fact. The building is more symmetrical without it. Perhaps it was a later addition and didn’t fit with the architect’s first vision of it? Anybody knows?
C’était effectivement une annexe qui fut démolie lors de la conversion en musée.
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this week I was actually looking up the history of the Shaughnessy house redevelopment into the CCA on the excellent new google news gazette historical archives. Shaughessey house was saved from the developers wrecking ball with no definite plans to become the CCA, but sort of soon evolved into the cca through some not-yet publicly documented process.
http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=source:%22montreal+gazette%22
Often I notice in these before-after posts that the trees are shrinking over time. You’d think that with a 100+ year headstart, our trees would win.
Where did the trees go?
Was the eastern “wing” torn down when building the CCA? It almost looks in the first picture like it was added after the fact. The building is more symmetrical without it. Perhaps it was a later addition and didn’t fit with the architect’s first vision of it? Anybody knows?
C’était effectivement une annexe qui fut démolie lors de la conversion en musée.