Architecture
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New life for Montreal’s park chalets
Beaver Lake chalet, photo by Frédéric Saia Original 1955 plans for the chalet Earlier this year, after two years of renovation, the Beaver Lake chalet on...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Je fais mon Steinberg
It’s hard to overstate the importance the Steinberg family played in the postwar development of Montreal. Their grocery store chain single-handedly...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Photo du jour: Mutilated in Mile End
In this before-and-after shot we can see the evolution (some would say devolution) of the Park Avenue retail strip between Bernard and St. Viateur. In the...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Turning the place over
[youtube]ZXn6PXBOyRY[/youtube] What do you do with an abandoned building? Turn it into art. Such is the case in Liverpool where the British sculptor...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Turn on the red light
The video screen of a silhouetted stripper was once a landmark at the corner of Ste. Catherine and the Main. It was a symbol of sorts for Montreal’s...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Les fleurs c’est pour la rue Demers
I’ve always been intrigued by Demers Street. It’s a tiny street in the north end of the Plateau, running parallel to Villeneuve between...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Poor NOLA: The violent struggle to rebuild a great city
On his blog yesterday Richard Florida posted “Shades of Robert Moses” and asked “So you thought urban renewal and the destruction of...
By Shawn Micallef -
Bâtiment disparu #3 : La Knox Presbytherian church
La Knox church construite en 1865 était situé au coin des rues René-Lévesque et Mansfield. Elle était l’oeuvre de l’architecte Edward Maxwell...
By Guillaume St-Jean -
Montreal’s vanished synagogues
Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue, McGill College near Sherbrooke WHAT? Makom: Seeking Sacred Space, a photo exhibition of former synagogues in Montreal...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Quebec’s politicians: let’s build our public buildings out of wood!
Quebec’s provincial leaders are tripping over each other to support a new initiative, proposed by natural resource minister Claude Béchard, that...
By Christopher DeWolf -
The McTavish Reservoir exposed
Andrew Chau has a great post on the McTavish Reservoir today at urban-ism: many people don’t realize that the large grassy field above the mcgill campus...
By Christopher DeWolf -
R.I.P. Montreal Exchange
Yesterday marked an end of an era of sorts. In what some are calling a “combination” and others just a plain “acquisition“, it was...
By Paul Erlichman