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Condos of that size are AirBnB bait.  Or a pied-à-terre for people who've moved outside the city in the last few years but still want a downtown unit. 

As Montreal (hopefully) rebounds, its something we're actively looking at too, though the layout of this one vs others is just atrocious.  

1. San Francisco  

Guess the author hasn't been to SFO in the last 4 years.  Its turned into a dump with rampant homelessness.  I go at least 4 times per year for business (even during the pandemic) and the city has visibly fallen apart in a short amount of time.

9 hours ago, Rocco said:

Ils ont clairement des problèmes d'approvisionnement de verre des balcons. Ça n'avance tout simplement pas.

Our gazing suppliers have a backlog of 19 weeks right now for standard orders.  For custom orders like they're using here, its around 30 weeks.  Its a disaster.  We're importing what we can from the USA but the delays only improve by a few weeks.  

On 2021-09-09 at 4:24 PM, Rocco said:

Some people don't seem to know how to count. Still 5 cranes on site. Bien comptées.

When people have a ground-side view and don't see the two Guay 100 ton cranes setting up to dismantle two of those this coming week....get up onto the 40.  At most there's going to be 3x left.  

Another crane being taken apart today.  I'm guessing ALL cranes will be gone before mid next week.  

This goose is cooked.  Mark it as another failed Montreal project.  

I know people who work at Mel's and there's NO WAY this is needed. 

Even before the pandemic they were idle for almost half the year as other provinces (BC, Ontario, etc.) have much more favorable filming conditions than here.  Their studios were empty for the most part with even the few Quebec-based shoots preferring to use Mel's mobile units and then using other resources for post-production work.  

This feels like a way to pay the TVA group of companies "back" for towing the CAQ line through the pandemic.  That $25 million could have been so much better spent helping out the smaller grassroots studios that are the backbone of the Quebec film industry and who suffered the most these last two years.   

How in the world are these jokers allowed to even put another shovel in the ground!?  Are they "too big" to be held accountable at this point?

FINALLY!  

However there are actually no final renderings yet.  All we are seeing is volumetric studies.  

If I see the words "human scale" from another one of the news pundits...I'm gonna gag.  

Its such an overused catch-all term that's completely lost meaning.  I mean look at Singapore, it has towering skyscrapers but worked doubly hard on green space projects and requiring a lot of new developments to be set back from the street rather than delivering those terrible "canyons" everyone around here seems to love so much. In the end it balances everything out and make it feel like a livable city. 

This is the exact opposite of what NYC, Toronto and even Montreal have done.  I say balance green spaces with higher development before going forward with raising a height limit.

This is an embarrassment to the sector and to architecture as a whole.  It shows how we strive for mediocrity with these projects rather than making them something to be proud of.  Griffintown taught planners nothing.  

Oh boy.  This is gonna get the NIMBY's frothing at their mouths.  Also, this really can't be done without a complete update of the road network around there with the service road dead-ending at the Colisee.  

Welcome to Condo Life in the 21st century.  It makes you wonder what kind of crazy things are happening where you CAN'T see them.  

Did I miss something?  Why are there prefab panels going up on 111 Atwater when every rendering and the floor plans show floor to ceiling glass curtain walls?  

"We ignore the lessons of history at our own peril"

Isn't this built within the MTQ exclusion zone?  Like right within the existing embankment?  

23 hours ago, Malek said:

Guys, losing à bombardier or cirque du soleil is not losing the corner shop. 
 

These things take decades to build and won’t come back ever again if they falter. 
 

We cannot simply let it go, that would be a disastrous decision. 

No.  Investing that money in small business development instead would guarantee long term success in new industries.  As it stands, its the small business that pay for propping up the larger ones with tax handouts, buybacks, etc.  Its unacceptable and needs to stop.  

If a large publicly traded or private company can't support itself, the government has NO BUSINESS propping it up.  Period.   

Seriously.....

13 hours ago, lnykgz said:

Soulless.  

OMG.  Seriously!?

Here's a novel idea:  stop naming public infrastructure projects after public figures.  This all just becomes an ego trip for everyone involved on both sides of the debate.  

Name them after the locations they serve.  Not that hard is it?  Not only that it helps people identify WHERE the station / stop is.  its one of the cornerstones of public transport "language".  London, Toronto, New York...even Paris have this. 

Its like naming a gate at the airport "Lucien Bouchard" gate instead of ordering them numerically.    It would be pure idiocy IMO.  

Sometimes I just think this city complicates things for no good reason whatsoever.  

On 2020-06-05 at 6:29 PM, Rocco said:

Y'a kek chose qui s'en vient, car c'est du solide.

This looks like an outdoor movie screen in the making.