By Alanah Heffez

Executive Committee OKs Main Makeover Despite OCPM Recommendation

St Lawrence and Ste Catherine street, 1905. Source: Mccord Museum. “We have to move forward,” said Catherine Sévigny, the executive committee...

Slow Down, Quadrilatère Saint-Laurent

The Public Consultation Bureau of Montreal has finally released their report and recommendations following the deposition of over 30 memoirs and a...

Architects’ Journal on Comic Book Cities

Architects’ Journal has cooked up a list of the greatest illustrated urban spaces. More than a backdrop for the action, comic book cities like...

Photo du Jour : Sunday Ritual

Big Bang Planning vs Emergent Urbanism

Architect and urban planner William Galloway recently wrote an op-ed piece at Archinet entitled “Big Bangs, Slums, and Suburbia” (via...

Photo du Jour : Chinatown Candyman

Photo taken on July 11th, 2009, rue de la Gauchetière.

Patronage, Corruption, Underworld: the movie

Well, it can’t be ignored. Montreal City Hall sketchiness has reached such astronomical proportions that The Economist ran a piece about it on June...

Recipe for Dorchester Square Renovation

Lots in the news lately about renovations to Dorchester Square, and the archaeological dig that will open up graves that date between 1799-1855, when the...

Photo du Jour : A place to get cut on rusty metal

“This park is a place for kids to get cut on rusty metal” The words are scratched into one of the metal sculptures erected by artist Glenn...

Photo du Jour : Biosphere Paint Job

Photo taken June 20th, 2009. The biosphere on Ile Ste-Hélène has been just a skeleton since the covering burnt in 1976. It’s currently getting a...

Who’s NOT going to Stevie Wonder?

“Who’s going to Stevie Wonder tonight?” I asked my Facebook-universe yesterday. And I got only one reply: “Who’s not going...

Island hopping Montreal-styles

A ferry whisks 12 bicycles and their riders across the St-Lawrence river to the Boucherville Islands provincial park. On your typical STM map of Montreal...