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  1. Cataclaw
    Si Montréal devait construire une tour de 250 mètres, la Place Bonaventure serait l'endroit parfait... En ce qui concerne la Place University St-Jacques, c'est mieux que rien et je l'accepte avec plaisir. J'aurais changé quelques détails, mais bon.
  2. Cataclaw
    C'est curieux.. moi aussi je trouve que les dalless sont très minces. C'est peut-être la perspective?
  3. Cataclaw
    Agreed! But you can't just build TEC alone, and you can't just reduce road capacity. You have to do both at the same time for the best results if you want to reduce sprawl and decentralization.
  4. Cataclaw
    L.A. is actually a lot denser than people think! It has a lot of good urban areas. A better example of car-dependent sprawl would be Houston.
  5. Cataclaw
    Hein? Ils parlent de 5-6 voies de chaque bord! Il y a actuellement 3 voies de chaque bord sur l'autoroute.
  6. Cataclaw
    Vous soulignez des bons points. Peut-être qu'on devrait considérer une nouvelle catégorie de projet - "En Préparation"? Cela incluerait la démolition, le "site prep", la décontamination, etc.
  7. Cataclaw
    Selon moi, la démolition est une étape préparatoire. Si la décontamination du sol et le "site prep." sont également des étapes préparatoires et elles sont considérées "en construction", je qualifierais la démolition comme étant "en construction" aussi. Merci pour les photos! J'aime bien ce projet!
  8. Cataclaw
    Guys guys guys... the only way to really fight sprawl is to reduce car use. We need FEWER lanes on the Bonaventure, not more. We want a SMALL capacity of VPD not a high one. We want some flow to accommodate shipping, emergency vehicles and external zone trips, but we don't want to make it an attractive option either. Induced demand is an insidious beast. It works in so many ways. 1. Add more lanes, capacity and system performance improves, people are encouraged to drive more. New trips are created, new development alongside the highways is spurred and the road is back to being congested within 5 years or less. 2. Build a metro line... and people start using the metro instead of driving. What happens? Congestion goes down on the roads. System performance increases and the roads become a more attractive option. You once again get back to congested roads. Even building transit is insufficient. You need to build transit and eliminate road infrastructure in tandem. Roads will always fill up to the maximum capacity you give them. Induced demand actually works in reverse though. If you reduce capacity, people will avoid driving and seek alternatives. Carmaggeddon in L.A. didn't happen although it shouldn't really be a surprise. You reduce vehicle transportation supply (aka road networks) and a new equilibrium settles on lower vehicle transportation demand. Transit demand goes up to compensate. Anyway long story short, there is empirical evidence to suggest that the correct course of action to reduce automobile dependency and fight suburban sprawl is to actually reduce automobile (vpd) capacity. I've taken several courses in advanced transportation modeling. Trust me on this one. I'm not just saying some voodoo stuff here, these concepts are real and demonstrable.
  9. Cataclaw
    Hein? Pourquoi autant de voies?! Selon moi le chiffre parfait c'est 2 de chaque bord + 1 voie de stationnement qui peut devenir une voie de circulation a l'heure de pointe.
  10. Cataclaw
    La tour BN vient écraser le reste du site selon moi. C'est ça le problème #1. Anyway... je suis pro-hauteur pro-gratte-ciel pro-densité mais juste pas dans le Vieux-Montréal.
  11. Cataclaw
    Désolé, mais un cube de brique n'a aucune valeur. C'est rendu ridicule là.
  12. Cataclaw
    Looks like something out of Caracas or Pyongyang. It's moving along nicely
  13. Cataclaw
    Ok les gars, ça suffit la chicane. On a tous le droit à nos opinions. Je trouve que la construction d'un gratte-ciel à la place d'armes fut une gaffe, mais ce qui est fait est fait... on ne peut pas retourner dans le passé!
  14. Cataclaw
    D'accord avec Yarabundi 100%. La tour de la Banque Nationale = énorme gaffe. C'est encore plus tragique lorsqu'on regarde les photos de l'édifice qui était là avant. Une vraie beauté perdue à jamais.
  15. Cataclaw
    Des murs aveugles sur 2 des 4 facades... wow. Quelle deception.
  16. Cataclaw

    Griffix - 20 étages (2013)

    Cataclaw a répondu à un sujet de jerry dans Complétés

    A piece of shit from 40 years ago or 70 years ago is still a piece of shit. Things don't automatically become valuable just because they're old. There are tons of great buildings worth protecting and saving for historical purposes. This is not one of them. This is a plain brick building with no distinguishable features. There are millions of nondescript generic buildings like these around the world.
  17. Cataclaw

    Griffix - 20 étages (2013)

    Cataclaw a répondu à un sujet de jerry dans Complétés

    Je suis urbaniste, je sais très bien comment ça fonctionne. Ma question ici n'est pas pourquoi ils ont gardé la façade, mais plutôt pourquoi la ville a insisté qu'ils gardent un petit 5% de la façade. 1- Personne va se rendre compte 2- Pourquoi sauver les vestiges du passé des années 60? Comme je l'ai dis dans un autre fil: Le cadre bâti à Griffintown a peu d'importance selon moi. On a rasé des communautés pour construire des industries.. et là on veut conserver ces industries pour des raisons historiques? Certes, il y a des édifices qui valent la peine de conserver à Griffintown... mais je ne comprend pas trop ce désir de conserver l'aspect industriel des années 60 qui selon moi était laid et mal conçu dès le départ, point de vue urbanisme.
  18. Cataclaw
    Mississauga is a suburb because 98% of its development is suburban in nature. Even Mississauga's "downtown" is heavily car-dependent with few transit options and the equivalent urban design. A suburb is a peripheral region characterized by its very low density suburban nature. A suburb is NOT a smaller municipality that happens to border the central city. In this sense, Westmount doesn't get classified as a suburb because Westmount is urban in nature. Even parts of Longueuil are not suburban even if the municipality as a whole is considered a suburb. Anyway, bottom line is, a suburb is a peripheral municipal entity who's urban form is very suburban/low-density in nature.
  19. Cataclaw
    C'est un gros terrain... je suis inquiet. I don't want to see a little building surrounded by acre of lawn. I hope this turns out "urban" with good street frontage.
  20. Cataclaw
    Good movies i've seen lately: Radiant City The End of Suburbia Escape from Suburbia
  21. Cataclaw
    Nice design but I have to agree the height is underwhelming, although the overall density is acceptable. I don't understand the logic behind putting the shortest building on University. I think a simple way to improve the massing of the proposal is: create an interior ground-level courtyard, completely surrounded by buildings but with access openings on all 4 sides. Take all that building mass and dump it on the towers facing University so that you add 10 floors or so. Advantages of this: 1- you now have a lovely interior courtyard 2- building enclosure and facades lining the streets remains preserved on all sides 3- the extra mass is deposited on the towers lining University giving them 10-15 more floors, enhancing the "grand entrance" of the city and giving the buildings a more appropriate scale with their surroundings. I understand they're going for an staircase effect but the way they have it now, you've got a bunch of midrises and then the Stock Exchange building behind it.. For it to be a staircase worth a damn, you need some taller stairs at the top, not a bunch of stumps. You can keep the same FAR/density but fix the massing and get a much better result in my opinion. This is one of the best 3 lots in all of downtown Montreal to build on... i'm hoping the city will recognize this.
  22. Cataclaw
    J'ai passé devant aujourd'hui pour confirmer mes impressions et oui.. c'est vraiment un cas d'abus de briques rouges. C'est un cube de brique avec quelques fenêtres. Je ne suis vraiment pas impressioné
  23. Cataclaw
    Well, the brick didn't end up pink after all. It's light brown and looks half decent.
  24. Cataclaw
    The Ville-Marie trench is a scar in downtown and it needs to be fixed. Even if the project did not spur new development, it would still be the right thing to do from an urban planning perspective.
  25. Cataclaw
    Crime, ça prit moins de temps mettre un homme sur la lune...
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