ville-marie Le Village - Projets et nouvelles

[MtlMan]

Guys, what did you expect? PKP et TVA!

[BiloMtl]

Guys, what did you expect? PKP et TVA!

 

Pff!! L'agrandissement du siège social de Quebecor dans le QI est une belle réussite! ;-)

[ERJ-Boy]

Si au moins l'Aile C se rendait jusqu'à la rue...

[IluvMTL]

Permettre encore des places de stationnement sur Sainte-Catherine après la construction d'une édifice sur le site! TVA doit avoir des amis à la Ville.

[MtlMan]

Pff!! L'agrandissement du siège social de Quebecor dans le QI est une belle réussite! ;-)

 

Pour moi, c'est un peu ordinaire. Compte-tenu du potentiel. Question de goût. Mais TVA anyway....

[acpnc]

Ce quadrilatère mérite mieux que cette horreur, qui entretient le vide commercial de cette portion de rue, et propose en plus, en totale contradiction avec ce qui se fait ailleurs sur une rue commerciale moderne, un stationnement de surface permanent en premier plan. Inacceptable! qu'on aille en consultation publique, on verra ce que la population en pense

[montréaliste]

La moëlle de la ville est pourrie.

[IluvMTL]

http://backstage.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.projectview&upload_id=23514

 

 

 

On a very different scale, the jurors also wished to highlight the impressive nature of Pink Balls in Montreal by Claude Cormier + Associés. This brightly-hued installation returns to the same 1km-stretch of commercial activity every year as a social artwork and ‘joyful visual articulation of artificial foliage’. Over 170,000 resin balls in varying shades of pink are suspended above the street in a ribbon-like installation.

 

The scheme drew gasps of delight from the jury panel, with Dr Jatsch labelling the project ‘absolutely brilliant’. Bowman was charmed by the ‘humour’ of the piece while Akers Coyle reflected: “It’s like an artificial blossom festival; you know that come summer, it’s going to arrive.”

In light of the strong concept imagined by Claude Cormier + Associés and ongoing success of this simple but effective scheme, our judges wished to award the title of Highly Commended to Pink Balls.

Congratulations to Grant Associates and Claude Cormier + Associés on two very different but equally impressive schemes.

 

Sian Disson

News Editor

[IluvMTL]

TVA - Aile C

 

2013-12-15

 

[IluvMTL]

La station d’essence de Suncor abandonnée (depuis au moins une dizaine d'années) à côté de Cinéma Champlain au coin de Papineau et Sainte-Catherine sera une bonne candidate pour une intervention artistique comme celle-ci.

 

http://popupcity.net/derelict-gas-station-turned-into-a-color-explosion/

 

Derelict Gas Station Turned Into A Color Explosion

 

Wednesday January 15, 2014By Joop de Boer↓

Although the Oil Age hasn’t ended yet, the first petrol stations are being left empty. This development leads to new chances for urban transformation. That’s what renowned Irish street artist Maser must have thought when he transformed a derelict gas station in the city of Limerick into a colorful piece of art.

The artwork’s name No.27: A Nod to Ed Ruscha refers to Ed Ruscha’s pop art masterpiece Standard Station, Amarillo, Texas from 1963. Besides this art-historian flirtation, Maser’s intervention is also just beautiful to see. The old gas station has become a landmark to the city at a place that once was just a regular everyday service spot for car drivers.

The bright and shiny colors make the restyled gas station really stand out from the surrounding landscape. The artist explained to a local newspaper that he ”creates work that surprises people and questions their relationship with the familiar and the norm, also how dissociated we are from the space around us”.

This is how the place looked like before Maser arrived

According to This Is Money, the amount of gas stations on the British isles is diminishing at a dramatic pace. This is not the consequence of a decrease in car use or the rise of the electric car, as we might think (or wish). Car use and fuel consumption, to the contrary, reach all-time highs in this region of Europe. The actual reason are the increasing numbers of supermarket gas stations owned by brands such as Tesco, Asda and Morrisons. Small local filling stations can’t compete with the new players in the fuel market and have no other choice than to stop their business. The result is a massive amount of derelict petrol stations all over Britain and Ireland, and a huge urge to come up with ideas to re-use these, often heavily polluted, spots.

Years ago we already covered a story about a gas station in London that was transformed into a temporary pop-up cinema, and a story about a gas station in Amsterdam that was turned into a light installation and event space. This painting project doesn’t add a new function but it adds style instead, while creating a new remarkable spot in the city.

Read more: http://popupcity.net/derelict-gas-station-turned-into-a-color-explosion/#ixzz2qUBtBAFd

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