Architecture

Photo du Jour : Olympic Proportions

Watch NFB: Orange, an animated short by Sylvie Trouvé

Editor: Spacing is pleased to announce we’ve partnered with the National Film Board of Canada to showcase films from their new online screening...

Photo du Jour : Gilford & Drolet

Justice may be blind but this is going too far!

Palais de Justice on rue St. Antoine Leaving City Hall one blisteringly cold day in January, I realized the entire east wall of the Quebec Superior Court...

Photos du Jour : La rue St-Alexandre

Une petite espace intime sur la rue Saint-Alexandre, coin Dowd.  La Basilique Saint-Patrick est juste à l’ouest, hors de vue. Photos prises le 25...

MTQ Plans to Cover one Trench Highway while Digging Another

According to an article in today’s La Presse, the Société Radio-Canada is pressuring the province to patch up the ugly gash created by the Ville...

Photo du Jour : City Hall under cover

The facade of city hall is getting touched up and, in order to hide the scaffolding, the 1878 building is draped in canvas bearing a life-size image...

CCA’s call for Actions – le CCA appelle à l’Action

Photo courtesy of www.cca-actions.org The Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) is seeking online submissions that complement its current exhibition...

Heritage gas station needs a new vocation

Photo by Kate McDonnell Yesterday the ever-vigilant Montreal City Weblog noted that a unique gas station on Nun’s Island, designed by Mies van der...

Photo du jour : Maisons victoriennes sur l’avenue du Parc

Photo du Jour : Cathedral Gargoyles

Gargoyles on the Anglican Christ Church Cathedral (built 1859) looking a little chilly on December 18th. The space under the church’s stone arches...

The ghosts of Steinberg’s

There’s something particularly iconic about supermarkets, especially in North America, where they first emerged in the 1940s and have a good...