Urban Design / Design urbain
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Devimco presentation on Griffintown: Residents not welcome?
A couple weeks ago, I and a fellow resident of Griffintown were invited to attend a presentation on the planned redevelopment of the area by developer...
By Chris Erb -
Opening up to the city: one building’s transformation
There’s nothing inherently special about a downtown building with Starbucks, Quiznos Subs and Zyng Noodlery on its ground floor. In fact...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Welcome to Little Maghreb
Walk a few minutes east from Saint-Michel metro and you’ll find yourself in one of Montreal’s most recent ethnic neighbourhoods: the Petit...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Building a new market in Vieux-Longueuil
Most real estate developments don’t have their own blogs. The Marché du Vieux-Longueuil is different. Louis Voizard, its developer, is tracking its...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Axel Morgenthaler on the Quartier des spectacles
Even the best cities are better at night. Hong Kong’s frenzied streets are bathed in neon; Paris takes on a desultory air as the streets grow dark...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Photo du jour: Verdun Annex
Advertisement, from the late 1900s or early 1910s, for new real estate development in Verdun. Found in the BANQ’s Massicotte Albums.
By Christopher DeWolf -
A condo tower done right
A certain segment of the population seems hard-wired to scoff at any mention of the word “condominium.” It’s certainly true that most...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Sauvons l’église Saint-Sauveur!
The saviour is in need of saving. One of Montreal’s last-remaining mid-nineteenth century churches, the Église Saint-Sauveur at the corner of St...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Montreal’s lost Expo opportunity
Expo 67’s 40th anniversary has passed, but there’s one aspect of the world fair that I find strangely overlooked: its transportation system...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Greening Montreal’s laneways
Montrealers across the city are taking a renewed interest in their laneways. Since many of them are too narrow to work as service corridors, their...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Montreal’s postwar neighbourhoods
Jean Talon Street in Saint Michel For all of its historic neighbourhoods, Montreal is really a postwar city. In the twenty years after 1941, the number of...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Griffintown’s citizen activists
This weekend in the Gazette, Steve Faguy spoke to a handful of the citizen activists who are casting a critical eye on the Griffintown redevelopment...
By Christopher DeWolf