Urban Design / Design urbain
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McGill University’s new life sciences buildings
In a past life, I was a university student in biochemistry at McGill University. Toward the end of my degree, there were talks that entrepreneur and...
By Cédric Sam -
Montage du jour : La caserne d’incendie #10
Vers 1900-2008 La caserne d’incendie numéro 10 était autrefois située sur la rue Sainte-Catherine près de l’intersection de la rue Guy. Un...
By Guillaume St-Jean -
Norvick, Saint-Laurent
Il y a de ces secteurs qui semblent directement sortis d’une autre époque. Je ne sais pas pourquoi, mais les quartiers de war time housing m’ont toujours...
By Mathieu Payette-Hamelin -
Montage du jour : La rue Sherbrooke depuis la rue Simpson
1966-2008 L’église unitarienne située au coin des rues Sherbrooke et Simpson fut détruite lors d’un incendie allumé par un pyromane le 24 mai...
By Guillaume St-Jean -
Montage du jour : La rue St-Antoine depuis le champs-de-mars
1983-2008
By Guillaume St-Jean -
Mount Royal by bike — at night
For years, I ignored the brooding hulk of Mount Royal at night, pausing only occasionally to contemplate the shape of its silhouette or the glow of the...
By Christopher DeWolf -
New life for the Mile End garment district
In this week’s edition of the Mirror I have an article outlining some of the issues surrounding the city’s planned redevelopment of the Mile...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Montreal’s hotel boom
The Gazette reported today that, within the next couple years, Montreal will be home to Canada’s first location of the prestigious Waldorf=Astoria...
By Chris Erb -
Know Hope: Mont Royal
By Dave Bergeron and Kimberley Mok “Know Hope” will be a series of illustrative vignettes exploring and re-imagining Montréal’s urban...
By Kimberley Mok -
Fruit & Flowers
Inspired by this great post by Leah Sandals over on the Toronto Spacing blog, I’ve been thinking about those wonderful gems of depanneurs that keep...
By Julie Fournier -
Ground broken for Swatow Plaza in Chinatown
I returned from a six-week trip to China some three weeks ago, and the first time since then that I ventured in our Montreal Chinatown was last week. The...
By Cédric Sam -
Ruelles with potential
Montreal is one of the most dynamic and engaging cities in North America, but sometimes I wish that creativity would be reflected in our urban planning...
By Christopher DeWolf