By Christopher DeWolf
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Norman Bethune Square gets a makeover
Norman Bethune is getting a bath. His statue, which normally stands encrusted in bird poop at the corner of Guy and de Maisonneuve, in the most...
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Street market? No, a railway market
[youtube]xSqNx7vJLDE[/youtube] Spacing reader Mark Slutsky sent us a link to this video today, showing a market lining a railway in Thailand. Within...
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Blast from the (very recent) past
I was rummaging through some of my old photos this evening when I came across some that were taken in the fall of 2002. It is so recent yet, in some ways...
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Photo du jour: The Lower Main
These metal shutters, common in so many cities around the world, are mostly absent in Montreal — except in the area around Ste. Catherine and the...
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The problems with the Griffintown project
Raphaël Fischler, a professor of urban design at McGill University, has weighed in on the Griffintown project with an op-ed published in today’s...
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Welcome, winter
This year, winter came early, with an endless week of snow and slush. The snowstorm last night was nice, though, a reminder of the calm that descends over...
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Photo du jour : Pas d’espèce de cochon
This sign, located in an alley near Mount Royal and St. Denis on the Plateau, is meant to encourage cleanliness, but I can’t help but feel sorry for...
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Chinatown’s changing, but it’s still a vital place
Chinatown is changing: new businesses are opening and a set of vacant lots on St. Laurent is set to be transformed next year into a $20 million shopping...
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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...
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Photo du jour: “No parking” in three languages
Alley behind Park Avenue. July 23, 2007
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Transit fares increase, but so does level of service
First, the bad news: fares on the STM will go up yet again next year, with the cost of a monthly pass rising from $65 to $66.25 and the cost of a strip of...
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Taking ephemeral art to the streets
Nobody like a self-promoter, so it feels awfully gauche to be writing about my own articles twice in a single day. Don’t judge me too harshly! In...