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    milieu d'affaires, ce qui nous déprime

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  1. flight_from_kamakura
    those blank rear walls are brutal, I hope there's an amazing mural there.otherwise, one of my favorite buildings in the city
  2. flight_from_kamakura
    alors, sait-on si ils vont construire les basilaires pour les deux tours au même temps (tout comme les tours icône)?
  3. flight_from_kamakura
    okay, so demolition costs will run $750.000+ and THIS is what's being proposed? even if the architect remains the same, the small scale of the project makes me feel like the developer ought to be sitting in rooms with others in order to get the funding to push this up a couple stories higher. also, i've been looking at the lot line, and i'm wondering about rear access - i'd love to see the complete re-establishment of the bishop street wall, but i also feel like this project is burning square footage taking up the entire lot rather than aiming higher (within the woodframed envelope) and reducing lot coverage. i hate cars, so i'm not advocating parking, i'm just thinking of courts and even garden areas.
  4. flight_from_kamakura
    baha, there's no chance on earth that this project will come about. this is 100% about forcing a buy-out, no question. i like the rendering (i'd like it more if somehow incorporated the mysterious plans for the adjacent sites) but yeah, this is a total fake-out. look at the lease, look at the zoning, look at the approved projects, look at who is proposing it - nothing will happen here. i'm so radically pro-development in mtl that i dream about it, but this is just a pipedream, will never happen.
  5. flight_from_kamakura
    i'll believe it when i see the foundation poured. hm, actually, even then, i'm thinking i won't believe it until it's above street level.
  6. flight_from_kamakura
    lol, yeah. it's streetwall-reinforcing small lot infill project with height - pretty much unheard of in montreal for the past 70+ years. this return to form is great, better than a podium point tower and quicker too, along with being a great means by which mid-sized developers can maximize their impact on the core. the design? oh well. the black wall is unfortunate, but the benefits far outweigh the cons.
  7. flight_from_kamakura
    wow! merci pour les photos, yvon.
  8. flight_from_kamakura
    i'm in china and can't watch the video (youtube is blocked by the government). who are the specific councilors who are the worst and most mis-informed? damn, it must make professionals like c-f and these architects absolutely crazy to deal with these city hall jokers, with king coderre top among them. almost makes the days of simple bribery make a clearer sort of sense.
  9. flight_from_kamakura
    awesome, so rare that we get these sorts of infill projects, wish we saw far far more of these, rather than lot consolidation for big towers. plus lets smaller developers into the market too.
  10. flight_from_kamakura
    i agree with taylor noakes: http://www.taylornoakes.com/2014/01/03/what-to-do-with-le-faubourg/ this is more money down the drain unless they get a proper programming into this place.
  11. flight_from_kamakura
    love this project. thanks for the photos!
  12. flight_from_kamakura
    jamais je n'ai vu un truc pareil, vraiment bizarre. en construction, bon...
  13. flight_from_kamakura
    «Je reçois des appels, mais c'est une bâtisse faite pour un magasin phare. Ce n'est pas pour un mom&pop» traduction: on veut hausser le loyer. impossible de absorber la leçon du plateau, ou on commence enfin à baisser les loyers... 5 ans plus tard et des milliers perdus
  14. flight_from_kamakura
    i don't know, neither city is all that hot. montreal: many/most of new construction is a means for the mafia to launder money; toronto: many of the thousands of units being sold are going to foreigners moving their money into canada against their countries' rules; montreal: we have been crippled for 40-50 years by a hand-in-glove relationship between politicians and mafiosi, crippling our infrastructure and immiserating the city; toronto: they have so little regard for themselves that they elect probably the only large city politician more buffoonish, low-iq and anti-urban than denis coderre; montreal: we have such low expectations for our city that we'll take any development that offers itself; toronto: it's so over-planned that vast swathes of the city feel totally sterile. plus, almost all toronto is chain stores, much like canada proper, along with much of quebec: at least in montreal we still have neighborhoods.
  15. flight_from_kamakura
    such a bummer so much horrible stuff in the city and this is what they demolish... we never learn...
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