Spacing Montreal

New look for the Ritz-Carlton

The Ritz-Carlton Hotel, one of Sherbrooke Street’s most recognizable landmarks, will soon be transformed with a $100 million renovation and...

By Christopher DeWolf

Neighbourhoods

Photo du jour : Graffiti sur Aylmer et Milton

Photo prise le 16 septembre 2006.

By Cédric Sam

Community

Snow day!

[youtube]NwqgZ4vzi9o[/youtube] Tomorrow’s forecast might call for rain but we certainly haven’t had any shortage of snow this winter. This fun...

By Christopher DeWolf

Neighbourhoods

Big changes in store for the lower Main

La Presse has discovered that negotiations are underway to transform the west block of St. Laurent, from the Monument National to Ste. Catherine St., into...

By Christopher DeWolf

Features

Toronto Tuesday: Urban fabric, street trees and streetcars vs. cars

Each Tuesday, Spacing Montreal will share with you some posts from our sister blog, Spacing Toronto. We hope it will enable constructive dialogue on the...

By Christopher DeWolf

Neighbourhoods

Photo du jour : Green’s Superette

According to the Wikipedia entry, its name “Superette” is derived from Supermarket, compounded with the suffix “ette” meaning...

By Cédric Sam

Events

Les grandes étapes de l’urbanisme français

QUOI? Conférence sur l’urbanisme français QUAND? Le mardi 29 janvier à 17 h 00 OÙ? Amphithéâtre Hydro-Québec, local 1120, 2940, chemin de la...

By Christopher DeWolf

Community

When Chinatown was a Jewish neighbourhood

Did you know that today’s Chinatown was once Jewish? From 1890 to 1920, thousands of Yiddish-speaking Jews came to Montreal from Eastern Europe and...

By Christopher DeWolf

Community