Urban Design / Design urbain
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Réimaginons la rue St-Viateur, part 1 : Observations
Le citoyen est le peintre de la vie urbaine et la rue est sa toile. Contrairement à d’autres quartiers de Montréal, le Mile-End ne se dessine pas par...
By Émile Thomas -
Bonaventure Project (update)
At the end of March, the Office de consultation publique de Montréal (OCPM) plans to release it’s report and recommendations from the Quartier...
By Adam Bemma -
Lower Main
Spacing Montreal has been following plans to revitalize Lower Saint-Laurent within the Quartier des Spectacles. Here’s an overview of the...
By Spacing -
SDA Backpedals on Lower Main Redevelopments
Breaking News: The three new buildings proposed by Société Dévelopment Angus on Boulevard Saint-Laurent will be smaller and longer in coming than...
By Alanah Heffez -
Public art & public space seminar next week
Click on poster for higher resolution Next week, the Urban Planning Association at Concordia University will be hosting a seminar focusing on public art...
By Chris Erb -
Qu’est-ce qu’un boulevard urbain ?
Qu’est-ce qu’un boulevard urbain ? Notre-Dame. Bonaventure. Côte-de-Liesse. Décarie. Du Souvenir. Tout le monde est fou des boulevards urbains. Nous...
By Émile Thomas -
Addendum: Café Cleo’s John Zoumboulakis
On Saturday I wrote about Café Cleopatra’s last stand on the lower Main. After refusing to sell his property to the Société de Développement Angus...
By Alanah Heffez -
The Lower Main’s Last Stand
This January, the Société de Développement Angus acquired two properties on Saint-Laurent and Ste-Catherine: Main Importing Grocery and building that...
By Alanah Heffez -
Toronto
Image credits ― Mamonello « Laissons Toronto devenir Milan, Montréal sera toujours Rome. » – Jean Drapeau Tonight, l’Orchestre symphonique de...
By Émile Thomas -
Photo du jour : Technopôle Angus
Édifice écologique LEED : I suppose the only green building is no building at all. (rue William-Tremblay coin Molson)
By Émile Thomas -
The Parking Lot Tax
Surface parking lots in downtown Montreal. As I mentioned in my post last week about the 2010 City of Montreal budget, one of the new measures it includes...
By Devin Alfaro -
Bakery revival or when Chinatown’s renewal goes through the stomach
Pâtisserie La Légende 麗晶餅屋 undergoing renovations Pâtisserie-restaurant Callia (嘉莉／麵包茶餐聽) Side of Pâtisserie Harmonie 麵包蜜語 Whereas the Chinese “food...
By Cédric Sam