Spacing Montreal

Photo du jour: Magic grape vines?

While the leafy vines that carpet so many Montreal buildings in summer may still seem a lifetime away, mature stalks like these can be admired all year...

By Jacob Larsen

Features

Montage du jour : L’église Erskine and American

Vers 1900-2009 Cette église construite de 1893 à 1894 deviendra bientôt un nouveau pavillon du musée des beaux-arts. Voici quelques photographies prises...

By Guillaume St-Jean

Features

Photo du Jour – Parade Day Party

Photo by Tristan Brand St-Patrick’s day is kinda like Montreal’s Carnival. At this point it has very little to do with celebrating Irish-ness...

By Alanah Heffez

Neighbourhoods

What is a Neighbourhood? – Le Coeur du Quartier

Elliot the the dog out for a romp in the alleyways of a not-yet-definitively-named neighbourhood. Every once in a while I overhear a heated debate about...

By Alanah Heffez

Green Space

Uncovering Turcot’s future (under a mountain of paper): BAPE documents reviewed

Source: MTQ On March 24, the Bureau des Audiences Publiques sur l’environnement revealed the documents which it will be considering its...

By Jacob Larsen

Transit

Le métro en Lego

Bit late to the game with this one (Fagstein wrote about it a month ago) but it’s still cool: Préfontaine metro station made from Lego. The...

By Christopher DeWolf

Architecture

Photo du jour: Montreal’s best parking garage

Maybe I’m just exposing myself to a barrage of angry comments by stating that I actually like this parking garage. You might not expect a garage on...

By Jacob Larsen

Features

Toronto Tuesday: Multicultural monuments, railway routes and civic complexes

Each Tuesday, Spacing Montreal will share some posts from our sister blog, Spacing Toronto. We hope it will fuel constructive dialogue on the urban issues...

By Matt Lee

Communication

Photo du Jour – Food not Bombs

Fruit and sandwiches at Berri Square, courtesy of the Montreal chapter of Food not Bombs. The volunteers told me they collect food that would have...

By Alanah Heffez

Architecture

Montreal’s shoebox/hobbit houses

I’ve always been curious about the flat-roofed one-storey houses that are sprinkled throughout many of Montreal’s neighbourhoods. Rather than...

By Christopher DeWolf

Communication

Following Riviere St. Pierre Under Lachine

Inside the Rockfield combined sewer overflow conduit Picking up from where we last left off, this stretch takes us through the inside of the Cote-St-Luc...

By Andrew Emond

Bikes

Plateau-Mont-Royal borough releases traffic-calming plan

As part of the city’s Plan de transport, an ambitious set of guidelines designed to decrease the number of cars on city streets and better...

By Chris Erb