Spacing Montreal

Montage du jour : Le château Viger

1978-2008

Suck It Up – Underground Trash-Vaccuuming to Replace Dump Trucks in QDS

The automated waste collection system sucks away trash, recyclables and organic waste through underground pipes with a 90 km per hour sucking power. Image...

By Alanah Heffez

Architecture

Photo du Jour – Skinny House

Photo taken Sept 19th 2008, in St-Henri. This skinny little clapboard house is squeezed between St-Augustin street and the train tracks, where they cross...

By Alanah Heffez

Community

“As a second car, consider a duplex.”

Despite the condos that are popping up all over town, Montreal experiencing a suburban exodus, and loses thousands of families each year to the...

By Alanah Heffez

Architecture

Montage du jour : Le couvent des soeurs de la miséricorde

1952-2008 Situé sur la rue St-Hubert, cet édifice fait aujourd’hui parti du CHSLD Jacques Viger.

By Guillaume St-Jean

Communication

Photo du Jour – Urban Language Breakdown

This sculpture entitled “Langage Urbain” by Ken Story has stood in front of the Bank of Montreal Telus building on Réné-Levesque, corner...

By Alanah Heffez

Architecture

Montage du jour : Une vue du vieux-port

1953-2008 La photographie de 1953 nous présente un vieux port bien différent de celui que nous connaissons aujourd’hui. En effet, nous pouvons...

By Guillaume St-Jean

Communication

Election signs: prenez la ligne orange

While SpacingMontreal doesn’t officially endorse any particular political party during elections, we do, however, often focus on election signs when...

By Chris Erb

Communication

Election notes from Hong Kong

As longtime readers well know, I have a thing for election signs, so I was particularly happy to see La Presse dedicate an article last week to their...

By Christopher DeWolf

Green Space

Photos du Jour – NDG Laneway

A path of hard packed earth littered with the season’s first fallen leaves meanders between Melrose and Draper street backyards in NDG. Although the...

By Alanah Heffez

Architecture

Montage du jour : La maison de L.G. Papineau

Vers 1906-2008 Cette maison située rue St-Denis, entre Ontario et Maisonneuve fut construite en 1885.

By Guillaume St-Jean

Features

Toronto Tuesday: Portugal’s public space design, exploring Toronto’s campuses and new ideas for city streets

Photo by Patricia Simoes Each Tuesday, Spacing Montreal will share some posts from our sister blog, Spacing Toronto. We hope it will fuel constructive...

By Chloe Ellingson