{"id":15631,"date":"2012-11-10T12:40:25","date_gmt":"2012-11-10T17:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/?p=15631"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:47:35","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:47:35","slug":"capturing-montreals-condoscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2012\/11\/10\/capturing-montreals-condoscape\/","title":{"rendered":"Capturing Montreal&#8217;s Condoscape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"ugly condos by alanah.montreal, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/alanahmontreal\/6859060225\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7203\/6859060225_ac41dfe246_z.jpg\" alt=\"ugly condos\" width=\"381\" height=\"285\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Condos on Duke Street by alanah.montreal, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/alanahmontreal\/2781858730\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3215\/2781858730_9fae4f90f8_z.jpg\" alt=\"Condos on Duke Street\" width=\"218\" height=\"285\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Montreal&#8217;s condo-scape is nothing if not controversial.\u00a0When we aren&#8217;t scandalized by their audacity, we are outraged by the banality of condo design. Condo ads promising prestige, sophistication, comfort and urbanity, seem dissonant with the re-parcelling of old triplexes and industrial buildings into compact, <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2011\/12\/19\/the-architecture-of-mediocrity\/\">corner-cutting designs<\/a>. And on a daily basis, our experience of condos is often marked by disruptive construction sites that breed indignant graffiti in our neighbourhoods&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Spacing Montreal is teaming up with\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.avenuehuit.org\/en-bref.html\">Groupe conseil Avenue 8<\/a><\/em>\u00a0to delve into the meaning of condominiums in Montreal &#8211; both concrete and imagined.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cca.qc.ca\/fr\/education-evenements\/1844-c-pour-condo\">C = condo<\/a>\u00a0is part of the Canadian Centre for Architecture&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cca.qc.ca\/en\/exhibitions\/1834-abc-mtl\">ABC : MTL<\/a>\u00a0event.<\/p>\n<p>Join us on <strong>Saturday November 17th,<\/strong>\u00a0for a treasure hunt through Montreal&#8217;s central and South-Western neighbourhoods to explore Montreal&#8217;s condoscape, both typical and surprising. This activity will be followed by a &#8220;fishbowl discussion&#8221; at the CCA. The event takes place from <strong>1pm-4:30 pm.\u00a0<\/strong>More info on the CCA&#8217;s website:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cca.qc.ca\/fr\/education-evenements\/1844-c-pour-condo\">C = condo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In preparation for the event, we invite readers to share photos or comments that help capture the many dimensions and contradictions that mark Montreal&#8217;s contemporary condoscape. Submit photos to alanahheffez @ spacing.ca, or tag them &#8220;c=condo&#8221; on flickr; or share your thoughts in the comments section below.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Fuck Condos graffiti by alanah.montreal, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/alanahmontreal\/7816353632\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8286\/7816353632_400f2b30a6_z.jpg\" alt=\"Fuck Condos graffiti\" width=\"576\" height=\"432\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Montreal&#8217;s condo-scape is nothing if not controversial.\u00a0When we aren&#8217;t scandalized by their audacity, we are outraged by the banality of condo design. Condo ads promising prestige, sophistication, comfort and urbanity, seem dissonant with the re-parcelling of old triplexes and industrial buildings into compact, corner-cutting designs. And on a daily basis, our experience of condos is<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2012\/11\/10\/capturing-montreals-condoscape\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Capturing Montreal&#8217;s Condoscape&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5022,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7830,7831,11,15,102],"tags":[1189,12,69,28],"class_list":["post-15631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-communication","category-community","category-events","category-housing","category-spacing","tag-canadian-centre-for-architecture","tag-graffiti","tag-social-trends","tag-spacing-montreal"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Capturing Montreal&#039;s Condoscape - Spacing Montreal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2012\/11\/10\/capturing-montreals-condoscape\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Capturing Montreal&#039;s Condoscape - Spacing Montreal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Montreal&#8217;s condo-scape is nothing if not controversial.\u00a0When we aren&#8217;t scandalized by their audacity, we are outraged by the banality of condo design. 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