By Alanah Heffez
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Nuit Blanche 2011 in Griffintown
Image: Nuit Blanche 2010 at the New City Gas Co complex by Tristan Brand. Forget backroom deals with developers and dull city council meetings — the...
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Photo du Jour: “Station Longueuil, terminus, merci d’avoir voyagé avec la STM”
(a continuation of yesterday’s tour of Montreal by Dash-8).
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Photos du Jour : Bird’s eye view
I flew out of the city last Wednesday towards the North-East, heading to Quebec City and ultimately Schefferville/Kawawachikamach. But ten minutes into...
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Heritage Preservation 2: Koolhaas vs Casse-Croûte
Here are a few more spin-off thoughts and bits of research from a heritage-perservation packed week in Montreal… In a 2004 talk entitled...
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Heritage Preservation: Procedure over Postcard
Perhaps the Redpath Mansion “victory” set the ball rolling, but heritage preservation grabbed a media spotlight in Montreal this week. On...
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1872: Sorry out of Wood
Long before we were concerned about fossil fuel shortages, Montreal’s grappled with a different kind of seasonal fuel shortage each winter. Most...
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Photo du Jour: Snow, the Great Equalizer
t(walk to metro) = t(wait for bus) = t(shovel car + get towed out of snowbank) Put on your snowsuits…
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Events Guide: Confabulation Neighbourhood Stories
Confabulation is a monthly showcase of true, lived stories, told by ordinary Montrealers from all walks of life. The stories are delivered without...
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Anywhere but Meadowbrook?
Never, in my experience, has a proposed condo development received so much praise. Suzanne Deschamps presented the Petite Rivière project at UQAM...
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A view obstructed: The urban plan as social contract
The Museum of Fine Arts’ (MBAM) newest pavilion, which is to open next September, is topped with a glass-walled lookout over Mount Royal. But a...
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Photo du Jour: A Murder of Crows in Saint-Henri
When you see them gathered by the thousands, blackening treetops for blocks, it is no wonder that crows were given such a ominous group-noun, a murder...
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1000 kms to Montreal
One thousand kilometers from North to South, from Waskaganish to NDG. We set out yesterday into the setting sun, fretting about the flurries, anxious...