{"id":2796,"date":"2009-05-27T17:06:21","date_gmt":"2009-05-27T21:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/?p=2796"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:45:01","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:45:01","slug":"2-22-ste-catherine-a-whole-new-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2009\/05\/27\/2-22-ste-catherine-a-whole-new-street\/","title":{"rendered":"2-22 Ste-Catherine &#8211; A whole new street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2797\" title=\"2-22-by-angus\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2009\/05\/2-22-by-angus.jpg\" alt=\"2-22-by-angus\" width=\"470\" height=\"232\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>2-22 Ste-Catherine by night. Image by Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 de Red\u00e9veloppement Angus, Paul Andreu, Aedifica &amp; Gilles Huot, May 21 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www2.ville.montreal.qc.ca\/ocpm\/pdf\/P37\/3d.pdf\">PDF<\/a>).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It may be ugly, it may be unpopular, but it&#8217;s not a monster.<\/p>\n<p>Although the proposal for 2-22 Ste-Catherine creeps above building height regulations, at 8 stories it is no King Kong tower. And more importantly, it is to be LEED certified, built with local materials, and provide space for local arts and cultural organizations. A caf\u00e9, bookstore, bar, green roof with terrace and a &#8220;vitrine culturelle&#8221; with info about events around town promise to keep it bustling with activity. So far, so good.<\/p>\n<p>But it is in the actual design that things get prickly.The developer, Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 de D\u00e9veloppement Angus (SDA), hand-picked a big-name French architect, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paul_Andreu\">Paul Andreu<\/a>, who sketched up a 40 x 33m glass facade which has <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.canada.com\/montrealgazette\/features\/viewpoints\/story.html?id=0a2cc944-743b-4918-b784-2f786749d10b&amp;p=1\">not<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/cyberpresse.workopolis.com\/opinions\/editorialistes\/nathalie-collard\/200904\/08\/01-844626-ou-est-laudace.php\">impressed<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montrealgazette.com\/developers+defend+vision\/1611425\/story.html\">anybody<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Inside the building, a wide indoor passage animated with cultural and commercial activities would run all along Ste-Catherine street, creating a parallel &#8220;street life&#8221; behind glass.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2798\" title=\"2-22-atrium-by-angus\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2009\/05\/2-22-atrium-by-angus.jpg\" alt=\"2-22-atrium-by-angus\" width=\"285\" height=\"401\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Image of 2-22 Ste-Catherine&#8217;s inner atium, by Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 de Red\u00e9veloppement Angus, Paul Andreu, Aedifica &amp; Gilles Huot from a May 21st presentation (<a href=\"http:\/\/www2.ville.montreal.qc.ca\/ocpm\/pdf\/P37\/3e.pdf\">PDF<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll leave the aesthetic critique to those of you more knowlegeable about architecture than I. All I can say is that the design may unpopular, but it dosen&#8217;t hide the building&#8217;s raison d&#8217;\u00eatre.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>An &#8220;urban re-qualification project<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I wonder whether the imported starchitect took any time to linger on the corner of Sainte-Catherine and the Main before drawing up these plans.<\/p>\n<p>Did he imagine squeegee punks slumped on the sidewalk outside, their studded leather jackets flattened against the sheets of glass? Did he picture club kids checking their reflections in the panes, tugging at the hems of their too-short skirts and rubbing smudged mascara off their cheeks before plunging into the dance pits at Les Saints or <em>Foufounes \u00c9lectriques<\/em>. Did he consider the shoeless drunks who would surely seek shelter inside his polished atrium, trying the line between public and private space?<\/p>\n<p>Why would he have? After all, SDA president Christian Yaccarini has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montrealgazette.com\/developers+defend+vision\/1611425\/story.html\">said<\/a> that the corner of Sainte-Catherine and Saint-Laurent is &#8220;completely dead.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Which is not to say the developer is blind to the darker underbelly of the city that tends to surface on this corner. According to a document describing the project:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;SDA est sensible \u00e0 la souffrance et la d\u00e9tresse humaine qui s\u00e9vissent sur les lieux. Elle ne peut ni ne veut toutefois prendre sur son dos l\u2019enti\u00e8re responsabilit\u00e9 de les soulager. Toutefois, pour SDA, il est entendu que ce projet de requalification urbaine doit \u00eatre utilis\u00e9 comme levier r\u00e9el pour d\u00e9ranger la mis\u00e8re.&#8221; <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Correct me if I&#8217;m wrong, but the last phrase translates to something like: &#8220;this urban requalification project must be used as a real lever to shift the suffering.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>Make no mistake about it: The 2-22 is not <em>trying<\/em> to fit in with its neighbours. It is not trying to respect the existing usage and urban form, nor is it attempting to respond to local needs. Its explicit goal is just the opposite: it aims to carve out a space for a whole new demographic of consumers to make themselves comfortable in the Quartier des Spectacles.<\/p>\n<p>So, while we wait for suffering to pack its bags and leave, those who want to sip latt\u00e9s at Olivieri&#8217;s can peer out at an infamous block of Ste-Catherine from behind an antiseptic wall of glass. For those who prefer the 99-cent hot-dogs across the street at La Belle, <em>envoye, su&#8217; le trottoir.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2-22 Ste-Catherine by night. Image by Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 de Red\u00e9veloppement Angus, Paul Andreu, Aedifica &amp; Gilles Huot, May 21 (PDF). It may be ugly, it may be unpopular, but it&#8217;s not a monster. Although the proposal for 2-22 Ste-Catherine creeps above building height regulations, at 8 stories it is no King Kong tower. And more importantly,<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2009\/05\/27\/2-22-ste-catherine-a-whole-new-street\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;2-22 Ste-Catherine &#8211; A whole new street&#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":[4,7839,7842],"tags":[1199,303,4058,4057,370,4059,4056,1660,1035,96,45,4060],"class_list":["post-2796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-neighbourhoods","category-urban-design","tag-architect","tag-cent","tag-christian-yaccarini","tag-gilles-huot","tag-king","tag-king-kong-tower","tag-paul-andreu","tag-pdf","tag-president","tag-quartier-des-spectacles","tag-revitalisation","tag-sda"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>2-22 Ste-Catherine - A whole new street - 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\/2009\/05\/27\/2-22-ste-catherine-a-whole-new-street\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"2-22 Ste-Catherine - A whole new street - Spacing Montreal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"2-22 Ste-Catherine by night. 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