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  1. mcgill
    I don't even think it was flat enough to be a parking lot. It was boarded up for awhile and vacant. Can anyone go back further?
  2. mcgill
    I have a print of the first picture (Saint James street) and it's called "Saint James Street, Montreal, 1933".
  3. mcgill
    Municipal building next to City Hall. http://www.imtl.org/edifices/edifice-Chaussegros-de-Lery-I.php
  4. mcgill

    Montréal de haut

    mcgill a répondu à un sujet de patboy dans Photographie urbaine

    Great pics! Any of the soccer stadium?
  5. mcgill
    Anybody else notice the "passage publique" between Aldred and this project? I think that's a nice feature, that way people can still walk through from Saint-Jacques to Notre-Dame (and vice versa) without having to walk to Place d'Armes or Saint-Laurent street.
  6. mcgill
    Short term pain for long term gain. Once the area is completed, there will be facilitated pedestrian and bicycle traffic, which, let's face it, are the real customers/users of this area.
  7. mcgill
    It reminds me of the Verdun Auditorium. A cheap metal siding front on an historic arena built sometime around the 1930s. What were they thinking???
  8. mcgill
    Any idea why de la Montagne has two levels of street lights (short, rustic ones, and tall, modern ones)?
  9. mcgill
    So, one more floor to go?
  10. mcgill
    I hope they are working on a French version of the website! At least all the floorplans are bilingual...
  11. mcgill
    Please don't put up a link that doesn't work and redirects to adult webcam sites. Some of us check the forum from work!!!
  12. mcgill
    Why do people keep referring to de la Montagne street as Mountain Street? The street is named after a person, not the mountain! I guess I shouldn't have such high standards from the Globe and Mail...
  13. mcgill
    Village Shaughnessy, is that the area around Georges Vanier metro?
  14. mcgill
    I walked by at lunch time and I was surprised to see that it's true, all ground level retail is occupied (anybody tried the Fire Grill yet?). It's interesting that right across the street, the ground level retail is getting a facelift (and new stores) while the upper floors remain clad in what can only be described as industrial aluminum siding. WTF?
  15. mcgill
    Where exactly is this building?
  16. mcgill
    Ironically: -many LHJMQ players aspire to one day be NHL millionaires in whatever city will pay them the most $$$, -liking players because of where they are from is questionable, -our collective wealth seems to be less than the sum of our individual wealths, -and finally, we are in the province of Quebec, which is, the last time I checked, in Canada!
  17. mcgill

    Tour Québécor - 19 étages

    mcgill a répondu à un sujet de mtlurb dans Complétés

    It's like the Quebecor complex went from a 60's throw-back eyesore on the south side of a down-trodden public place to the jewel in the crown of a rejuvenated Square Victoria, all in the span of about half a decade. It really is my favourite building bordering the square. It really fits in with the dimensions of the square and its belt of buildings; buildings that help tell the story of this, one of the most beautiful public spaces of the city. Although the Place Victoria (Tour de la Bourse) is very imposing, it too reminds us of a time, around the middle of the last century, when there was a genuine feeling and hope that Montreal would be the "Ville Reine" of Canada. It's too bad for the Phenix Notre Dame, there view being forever removed from the picture. It should have been built just west of Quebecor, on top of the existing buildings, thereby rising like a phoenix out of the ground.
  18. mcgill
    Wasn't the whole south part of this block (north side of ste cath, between Lambert-Closse and Chomedey) supposed to become a Concordia Residence complex?
  19. mcgill
    The structure that has been installed is very imposing. It really stymies pedestrian circulation on the sidewalk; I'm surprised that the city allowed this. I was walking by on Sunday and there was a real bottleneck at this spot. I would recommend cordoning off the adjacent parking spaces to allow pedestrian overflow onto the street (temporarily).
  20. mcgill
    Nice pics! I'm surprised to see so much green grass! Saint-Lambert reminds me a lot of Old Saint-Laurent.
  21. mcgill
    I think that George Jr. and GEG in general have had a positive impact on the city of Montreal. In that respect, whatever Gillett decides to do with Windsor Station will most likely be good news.
  22. mcgill
    The "topping out/off" ceremony is almost always accompanied by an evergreent tree, even on really tall towers like the ones in Chicago and Manhattan. Check this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topping_off
  23. mcgill
    The Wal-Mart era, like all others, will eventually come to an end. I predict that by 2020, the greed of the owners will take over and the boycott will eventually become worldwide. Those who had the foresight to revolutionize the shopping experience instead of cheapening it will come out on top. And the world just keeps turning...
  24. mcgill
    Based on what I've observed as someone who has been taking the metro pretty much everyday for the past 8 years, the problems that slow down the metro are largely the fault of users. There are the obvious ones, like jumpers and health emergencies (e.g. heart attack, stroke, seizure). But there are also the shorter yet more frequent stoppages, like somebody gets their bag stuck in the door, somebody gets stuck in the door because they try to jump in at the last second, somebody holds the doors open, too many people cram the metro rather than wait for the next one, etc. Let the STM sort out the mechanical issues and the users can do their part.
  25. mcgill
    If every Montrealer donated $2 to the Planetarium fund... problem solved.
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