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  1. Kilgore Trout
    I live in Hong Kong. The most densely built parts of the city (where it's nothing but tower blocks) are the most boring. It's the areas where you have a mix of buildings, or even just mid-rise walkup buildings with the occasional tower, that have the best streetlife.
  2. Kilgore Trout
    J'ai entendu dire que c'est Henri Cleinge qui a gagné le concours...
  3. Kilgore Trout
    cédric sam a écrit un nouveau billet sur le swatow sur son blogue. quelques photos et observations : http://commeleschinois.ca/2009/03/08/le-swatow-nouveau-fait-son-nid/
  4. Kilgore Trout
    49 minutes? It's much less than that. From the AMT website: http://www.amt.qc.ca/tc/train/horaires/horaires_fs.asp?direction=centre&codejour=1&ligne=2 Beaconsfield -- 06:14 ... Vendôme -- 06:43 Lucien L'Allier -- 06:50 That's 36 minutes, only a bit longer than the time it takes to drive to Beaconsfield with no traffic.
  5. Kilgore Trout
    The lot was sold about a year ago but, since then, there has been no indication of any development. This project would be absolutely perfect.
  6. Kilgore Trout
    2.6% might be higher than the national average, but it's also the lowest growth expected for any major Canadian city, so I wouldn't consider it overly optimistic. Thanks for posting this. I didn't realize that my article had been picked up by the Financial Post.
  7. Kilgore Trout
    It's a myth... Vancouver is only laid back if you're one of the rich jet-setters and short-term residents who treat the city like a resort. For everybody else it's impossible to be truly laid-back when the rents and property prices are completely unaffordable. Incomes aren't that high in Vancouver but the real estate is the most expensive in Canada! That's to say nothing of the fact that as a culturally innovative city, Vancouver has got nothing in Montreal. There's a reason so many young, creative Vancouverites have moved here in recent years. I haven't heard of anyone moving from Montreal to Vancouver to take advantage of the creative atmosphere.
  8. Kilgore Trout
    Aside from the cheap-looking cladding, I really don't like the way it treats the ground floor. The retail spaces (which are still empty) look lost behind the thick brick columns. Some of the ground floor is actually taken up by blank service doors which I think is inexcusable. They could have been placed more discreetly or been better integrated into the streetscape.
  9. Kilgore Trout
    Nice photos! I visited Saint Lambert for the first time in early January. It was a lot more substantial than I expected... there's even a small department store. I was with a friend who grew up in an old railroad suburb of NYC and it really seemed to remind him of home.
  10. Kilgore Trout
    Maybe that's because you're comparing it to much larger projects in other cities. Stick with the local context. We're in Montreal, not Toronto, and what's important is how the Crystal looks at Mountain and René Lévesque, not King and University.
  11. Kilgore Trout
    Last I walked by the old Southam building was being renovated. Man, this project really sucks. What a disappointment.
  12. Kilgore Trout
    According to La Presse, it will be a project with ground floor retail and space for cultural organizations like the dance school. Ideally that would simply be the podium for an apartment tower but at least we're finally getting rid of this godforsaken empty lot.
  13. Kilgore Trout
    Faut clarifier que ce n'est pas spacingmontreal.ca qui commence à chialer mais surtout quelques de nos lecteurs. Personally, I think this project is a good thing. The only concern I have is that the Jeans Jeans Jeans building will be destroyed to extend St. Viateur. It creates a nice visual terminus for the street; instead of extending the whole thing, why not create a pedestrian link through the vacant lot just to the south of that building, which would connect with the St. Viateur extension? Pedestrians and cyclists would be able to go through but through traffic would be limited, which is probably a good idea anyway.
  14. Kilgore Trout
    guil3433, c'est Guillaume St-Jean. Il écrit sur le patrimoine et l'histoire architecturale pour Spacing Montréal : http://spacingmontreal.ca/?author=17
  15. Kilgore Trout
    Wow, this article is about 10 years late.
  16. Kilgore Trout
    You clearly don't know anything about Dinu Bumbaru. Come on.
  17. Kilgore Trout
    I hope they open a location somewhere downtown, or at least on an urban retail street. It's absolutely appalling that their Montreal store is the only one in Canada located in a suburban-style power centre. Even their Quebec City, Halifax, Winnipeg and Victoria stores are in urban locations!
  18. Kilgore Trout
    It's supposed to have a supermarket on the ground floor, right?
  19. Kilgore Trout
    bonne nouvelle, mais j'aurais hâte de voir les plans pour l'exterieur. cet édifice a déjà une très belle façade terra cotta.
  20. Kilgore Trout
    Source de l'article : http://www.ledevoir.com/2007/12/17/168881.html
  21. Kilgore Trout
    Le Devoir a aussi poursuivi vigile.net.
  22. Kilgore Trout
    Moi je vis dans le Mile End et je passe la plupart de ma vie en anglais. Bien que je sois bilingue, je parle beaucoup plus souvent l'anglais que le français. D'ailleurs, c'est un peu la même chose à Vancouver, où le chinois est très répandu. Ma belle-mère parle à peine l'anglais mais ça ne lui pose aucune problème. Elle passe très bien sa vie quotidienne en parlant que du cantonais.
  23. Kilgore Trout
    Every single interest group, whether it has anything relevant to say or not, has trotted out its views for the commission. It's like a farce.
  24. Kilgore Trout
    Why 10pm? 11pm would make so much more sense. I don't understand why alcohol sales at deps are prohibited after 11pm, either. Is it to protect the bars? If that's the case, it's kind of absurd. Supermarkets can't stay fully open after 9pm to protect the depanneurs, depanneurs can't sell alcohol after 11pm to protect the bars, bars can't stay open after 3am to protect... who knows. If Alberta has one advantage over Quebec, it's that liquor stores are allowed to stay open until last call.
  25. Kilgore Trout
    That's another form. Here you go: http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census06/data/topics/RetrieveProductTable.cfm?ALEVEL=3&APATH=3&CATNO=&DETAIL=0&DIM=&DS=99&FL=0&FREE=0&GAL=0&GC=99&GK=NA&GRP=1&IPS=&METH=0&ORDER=1&PID=89272&PTYPE=88971&RL=0&S=1&ShowAll=No&StartRow=1&SUB=702&Temporal=2006&Theme=70&VID=0&VNAMEE=&VNAMEF=
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