Urban Design / Design urbain
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Concerns about the east end’s “Decarie expressway”
East end residents will finally get their say on the Notre Dame highway project today, when about fifty groups and individuals submit statements as part...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Le théâtre de Quat’sous n’est plus !
C’est ce matin vers 7h30 que commenca la démolition de l’édifice situé au 100 avenue des Pins occupé par le théâtre de Quat’sous. La...
By Guillaume St-Jean -
Griffintown: Meetings and more meetings
I was at the Sud-Ouest Borough council meeting tonight where they announced a series of public consultations on the Griffintown project. The first will be...
By Misha Warbanski -
Yesterday’s ideas, today’s problems
Savvy Montrealers know that the best place to be on Thursday evenings, post-cinq-à-sept, is the Canadian Centre for Architecture, when admission to the...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Photo du jour: Van Horne Viaduct
The Van Horne Viaduct (also known as the Rosemont Viaduct) is surprisingly unobtrusive as it passes down Marmier Street in the industrial area next to the...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Griffintown News Roundup #2: Jan. 23-Jan. 31
Griffintown continues to make waves in the local media. On the footsteps of our last news roundup, here, in chronological order are many of the news...
By Chris Erb -
Montreal West wins right to rebuild its barricade
The concrete barricades shortly after they were moved off the road last year. After a year of court battles, the concrete barriers the town of Montreal...
By Chris Erb -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Cultural space to be built on Saint-Laurent metro
One of the more inexplicable vacant lots in town has been always been the one surrounding Saint-Laurent metro, at the corner of the Main and de...
By Christopher DeWolf