Architecture
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Mon cagibi, mon shed, mon débarras, mon…
J’ai compris à quel point le cagibi était un élément caractéristique de Montréal en visitant les ruelles en compagnie d’un groupe d’amis...
By Thomas-Bernard Kenniff -
Collège Français, en quatre temps
Fondé en 1959, le Collège Français est un établissement d’enseignement privé situé au coeur du Mile End, sur l’Avenue Fairmount. En 1972, le...
By Cédric Sam -
Cultural guerrillas restore Paris’ Pantheon clock
TORONTO — Here in Toronto, we like to revel in the actions of guerrilla activists who do things to try and better our everyday lives: the Urban...
By Matthew Blackett -
Naoya Hatakeyama’s Scales at the CCA
New York at Japan’s Tobu World Square theme park If you’re heading to the Canadian Centre for Architecture anytime soon to check out their...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Expanding a museum, saving a church
At the end of the year, the Museum of Fine Arts will start work on a new expansion that will engulf the former Erskine and American Church, located across...
By Christopher DeWolf -
What makes a good library?
Earlier this month, the city and province announced that they will team up to invest $37.5 million in Montreal’s libraries, with plans to create...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Photo du jour: Little mosque on St. Dominique
Newly-expanded mosque near Ste. Catherine and St. Laurent. October 29, 2007
By Christopher DeWolf -
Living in a laneway: why not?
Abandoned laneway triplex near St. Louis Square This summer, while wandering through one of the sidestreets between Prince Arthur and Sherbrooke, I veered...
By Christopher DeWolf -
$120 million to build the Quartier des spectacles
After years in the making, the plans for the Quartier des spectacles are finally coming together. Yesterday, it was announced that all three levels of...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Ma ruelle préférée : alignement informel
En général, on s’attend à ce que ce soient les grands boulevards et les grandes rues qui s’enlignent sur les points de repères de la ville...
By Thomas-Bernard Kenniff -
Will the Big Bibliothèque finally open its book market?
When it opened at the end of April, 2005, the Grande Bibliothèque defied expectations when it attracted tens of thousands of people who were eager to...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Save our city’s kitsch!
The Orange Julep. Photo by afternoon_sunlight Montreal has lost one of its more remarkable pieces of kitsch architecture. Today, the Canada Motel, a...
By Christopher DeWolf