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More updates. Due to the clay soil in Vaudreuil, the foundations and pilings on this project are just insane. Its actually the largest piling project right now in North America. Oh, and 4 of 7 cranes have been installed.

But the VIEW! 🙃

Montreal: Are your cones properly stackable? Supplier: Nah Montreal: Are they PURPLE? Supplier: Yeah! Montreal: Cool! We'll pay double market value and use them to eliminate parking spots! Win win!

Someone needs to place a homeless traffic cone over the "é". You know, just so people understand what the most apparent natural wildlife is in Montréal.

I think what all of these images of tall structures amid lower ones show the same thing: the tallest buildings have architectural / design merit. They aren't just hunks of concrete or "glass walls", there's thought put into their design and approval. The Karla Tower in Gothenburg is proof of that. The problem here is developers seem to copy / paste designs of the lowest common denominator. Griffintown, Square Childrens and literally every building over 10 floors in Laval is proof of that. IMO, if we allow developers to build higher than 200m their designs absolutely need to be held to a much higher level of architectural accountability than the current generation of buildings here.

Drove by yesterday and trying to figure out what this massive block of white is? Its not on any renders and its just...weird.

A few more higher resolution images. One interesting fact: all this money and this hospital won't have an oncology unit. So people in my region will still need to travel into town for cancer treatments. Very bizarre. One nice addition is a full pediatrics side & a large birthing ward. Both super necessary considering the region's young population.

Two of a total of 7 I believe based on aerial views of the site. 4x on the main building, 3x on Pavillon A

Vegas is an AMAZING town for sports, better than I thought until I spent a lot of time there over the last four months for business. - A very passionate local populace & passionate about living in Vegas - More disposable income in the populace - Low taxes for both players & owners - Great weather - A very good school system for players with families - Very little political gerrymandering - Less red tape for development - The local media doesn't have a meltdown over hiring local "talent" vs players / coaches who may be more suitable - Well located so Athletics fans can still get to in a reasonable amount of time (1.5hr flight / 8 hour drive) The main issue I see is the stadium is being built on "hallowed" ground and I hope there's some form of memorial planned on the site. But good on Vegas.

My god. I read that article and wanted to either laugh or be completely outraged. Still not sure which. For christ sake, the view of the mountain is ALREADY COMPLETELY BLOCKED because developers have been forced to build wider, stunted towers due to this "view" nonsense. I mean can we also agree to cut down all these damn trees that might be blocking Saint Lambert's view of the mountain because of....you know...PERSPECTIVE? Oh and those power lines, they gotta go to. Right? What a sham.

Looks like the stage for a Rolling Stones concert...

I'm trying to understand WHAT on the train is causing that? This seems to be a major oversight since the Confederation Line had the exact same issues half a decade ago so its not like they didn't see it coming. Light rail noise seems to be an ongoing issue that just hasn't been solved anywhere...

Last week I was visiting a friend on the 15th floor of Evolo 2, facing west. The windows almost completely drown out the highway traffic noise but the REM....nope. And you can CLEARLY hear it. Its almost like its octave range is outside the ability of the glass to absorb / deflect. The sound is totally bizarre and quite jarring.

Hey, maybe I like being reminded of the most ramshackle of parts of my otherwise beautiful city with a 63 floor middle finger right at its "entrance". 🙃

The inspiration board for this project from Chevalier Morales says everything about what this tower is gonna look like in 20 years. I wonder how this was presented to the client without being laughed out of the room because what it says to me is: "Montreal has a ton of rundown concrete and cheese grater patterns. Let's embrace it over every one of the 63 floors guys! YOLO!"

So, no bus lane (buses on the shoulders) so public transport will need to merge with traffic at the end of the bridge, no space for potential REM expansion.....and where the heck is the bicycle path gonna end? It seems this doesn't take ANY future considerations about regional development into account.

This isn't even a project anymore. Its an in-our-face grift, pure and simple. I'm wondering what it'll take for the government to mandate full independent audits of all projects over a certain monetary amount like Alberta and Massachusetts did years ago. Typical cost to build a NEW tunnel is between 600-900 million per mile. And yet here we are spending about that for a renovation.... Source: https://tunnelingonline.com/why-tunnels-in-the-us-cost-much-more-than-anywhere-else-in-the-world/

I actually picked up my friend the other day who's working on this project and it was my first time seeing the cladding in person. Originally, looking at pictures here, I thought it couldn't be that bad. Well its worse than I could have imagined. Its bad enough as it is...but imagine what it'll look like with 5-10 years of grit on it? Whoever approved materials on this project should be chased out of their job.

Wow. Talk about poor material choices.

My fellow Anglos are having a literal mental breakdown about this. Not sure why since no one from outside Quebec would have touched this purchase. IMO the CFL has at most 10-15 years left and this organization is going to need a complete top to bottom rebuild.

Version A has this weird "hey I wanna be a Mies van der Rohe clone without any of his trademark subtlety" feel to it. As a result it just looks cheap, especially with that white box slapped into the middle that I'm sure would have some ridiculous "artsy" excuse for its existence. Like "this architectural flourish with a white highlight representing a looking glass looking over Mount Royal and points beyond....". 🤮

Milwaukee is a great city to walk around. That building wasn't there the last time I visited, it must be pretty new.

Well we now know this is 100% politically motivated BS. September 2026 is the month before the next provincial election.....after 15 years of waiting....

Man, I miss the persistent headers at the top of each page showing WHAT'S being built and pertinent information. Do we have any idea what's going into this space? All I see is the Sir Charles Condos on Devimco's site: https://www.sircharlescondominiums.com/ And that's ~25 floors, certainly not 40.

At some point in time it comes down to: "you need to sh*t or get off the pot". When it comes to massive infrastructure projects, we seem to send them into endless committees and pointless studies until they get so expensive due to the time elapsed impacting inflationary costs, the process needs to start all over again. I'm more interested in what will come first: this bridge or the replacement of the decade-old "temporary" wood poles serving as lamp posts / electrical posts all along the 40. The entire length of the 40 between the bridge and St Charles in Kirkland has the feeling of a never-finished construction project.