Architecture
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Yesterday’s ideas, today’s problems
Savvy Montrealers know that the best place to be on Thursday evenings, post-cinq-à-sept, is the Canadian Centre for Architecture, when admission to the...
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How to not screw up Montreal’s schools
Just as it prepares to invest $140 million in upgrading its schools, the Commission scolaire de Montréal, the city’s largest French school board, is...
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La maison Redpath
Située sur l’avenue du Musée, cette demeure de style Queen Anne fut construite en 1886 pour John Redpath, un riche industriel et fondateur de la...
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New look for the Ritz-Carlton
The Ritz-Carlton Hotel, one of Sherbrooke Street’s most recognizable landmarks, will soon be transformed with a $100 million renovation and...
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Heritage Montreal: a manifesto for new development
It has been decades since Montreal has seen this much development activity. In addition to the many condominium, retail and office buildings proposed or...
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A lesson we need to learn from Albania
The downtown west end is one of my favourite parts of Montreal. Densely-populated, teeming with life and resolutely multicultural, it feels unique because...
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Patrimoine menacé
Photographie prise en 2006 En 1986, cette maison fut présentée comme suit dans un livre sur l’architecture rurale, publié par le répertoire...
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EXPO – 16 Curious Beauties: The Architecture of Montreal in 2108
By Jelena Porovic Conscious of the difficult undertaking they are about to commit to, determined not to plunge into a nostalgic futurism, and willing to...
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Great expectations of films on architecture
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFqzBmjuAQE[/youtube] Anyone interested in architecture should remember to head down to the Cinéma du Parc this...
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Axel Morgenthaler on the Quartier des spectacles
Even the best cities are better at night. Hong Kong’s frenzied streets are bathed in neon; Paris takes on a desultory air as the streets grow dark...
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Visionary architecture at the Cinéma du Parc
WHAT? Visionary Architecture: Great Expectations & Kochuu and Moshe Safdie, The Power Of Architecture, three films on architecture WHEN? 7pm and 9pm...
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A condo tower done right
A certain segment of the population seems hard-wired to scoff at any mention of the word “condominium.” It’s certainly true that most...
By Christopher DeWolf