Spacing Montreal

Event Space / Espace Événements 7 – 18 Nov.

7/18 – Launch party for Words the Dog Knows J.R. Carpenter’s new novel Words the Dog Knows (conundrum press) captures the details of daily...

By Alanah Heffez

Communication

Photo du jour – Les mégots et les gommes, c’est assez!

Part of a city campaign against litter. Photo of stencil (and gum) taken at de la Gauchetière O and de la Cathédrale.

By KC Bolton

Architecture

Montage du jour : Le restaurant Bens

2007-2008

By Guillaume St-Jean

History

Société Radio Canada plans to re-create dense urban neighbourhood

The Office de Consultation Publique de Montréal is holding and information session and three workshops this month on the Radio Canada’s site. This...

By Alanah Heffez

Features

Photo du jour – Painted paint plant

Paint plant door at rue Marmier and rue Henri-Julien in Rosemont

By KC Bolton

Features

Montage du jour : Intersection des rues de la montagne et Sherbrooke

1969-2008 Les éléments à noter : le nom W. Sherbrooke street sur l’enseigne ainsi que la maison Van Horne que l’on aperçoit dans le reflet de...

By Guillaume St-Jean

Architecture

Doubling the downtown population, with the private-sector

Of the 864 census tracts in the Montreal Metropolitan Area, only three doubled their populations between 2001 and 2006. Two of the three cover areas in...

By KC Bolton

Community

In absentia maps Mile End stories

in absentia, a web-based art project presented by Dare-Dare, reads as a cross between a map and a novel. When you have lived in a place for long enough...

By Alanah Heffez

Architecture

Montage du jour : Maisons sur la rue Crescent

1969-2008

By Guillaume St-Jean

Features

Toronto Tuesday: Unbuilt Toronto, Transit City, and the Regent Park Film Fest

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 Chloe Ellingson

Architecture

Know Hope: Tesseract

By Kimberley Mok The ubiquitous mansard roofs* of Montréal have always fascinated me. From the monumental to the ordinary vernacular, these distinctive...

By Kimberley Mok

Green Space

Tree Tuesday: the good service tree

I was too young at the time to recall the discussion regarding the design of the Canadian flag but I’ve often wondered how the sugar maple leaf was...

By Bronwyn Chester