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Les petites rues désertes de Montréal ont besoin de beaucoup de ce type de projet. Ils amènent de la vie et de l'activité.

ahahah, e'bonne!

Dieu merci qu'il n'y ai pas de fils de tramway pour gâcher tout ça!

Ca va etre beau de voir les passages du REM au-dessus du fleuve.

C’est vraiment un no man’s land dans ce coin! J’ai hâte de voir la transformation qui s’en vient.

Ces pilonnes tout d’un coup me renvoient avec bonheur à ça

Je remarque que les rues sont étroites au centre-ville de Montréal. L'effet de densité est d'autant plus grand même avec des petites tours de 120 m. J'aime bien.

Ok merci @Mondo_Grosso

Je serais curieux de savoir combien ca se loue ce 1 chambre a coucher.

Wow, pas un mais 2 monolithes, la dualité Montréalaise.

Sans froufrou, sobre, mettant en valeur la base, j’aime ça. Un bel ajout pour ce secteur.

BElle photo d’un angle inusité . Ce gros stationnement en bas d’image, est-ce que l’expan du Palais des congrès le ferait disparaître ?

Nice try.

Ok, merci à tous ceux qui ont répondu.

He Helped Create A.I. Now, He Worries About ‘Killer Robots.’ NY TIMES By Dan Bilefsky March 29, 2019 MONTREAL — Yoshua Bengio is worried that innovations in artificial intelligence that he helped pioneer could lead to a dark future, if “killer robots” get into the wrong hands. But the soft-spoken, 55-year-old Canadian computer scientist, a recipient of this year’s A.M. Turing Award — considered the Nobel Prize for computing — prefers to see the world though the idealism of “Star Trek” rather than the apocalyptic vision of “The Terminator.” “In ‘Star Trek,’ there is a world in which humans are governed through democracy, everyone gets good health care, education and food, and there are no wars except against some aliens,” said Dr. Bengio, whose research has helped pave the way for speech- and facial-recognition technology, computer vision and self-driving cars, among other things. “I am also trying to marry science with how it can improve society.” Dr. Bengio was expounding on the promises — and perils — of A.I. on a recent day while sitting in his small, cramped office at the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms, a research center he founded that has made Montreal a global center for artificial intelligence. Next to him was a whiteboard covered with complex mathematical equations, along with a warning for the cleaners written in French: “Do Not Erase.” Suite de l article https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/29/world/canada/bengio-artificial-intelligence-ai-turing.html

Est-ce que quelqu'un sait ce qui adviendra des petites maisons juste à l'ouest de la tour?

Merci ScarletCoral d'avoir posté l'entrevue. Je commence à entendre parlé de Montréal ici à NY, dans les réunions d'affaires, surtout en terme d'accès aux technologies avancées.

Les tours seraient pas mal plus au nord des pignons du pont, si je me fie aux photos. La densité verticale permet d'aménager plus d'espace libre au sol tout en amenant de la densité, de la population active, qui encore une fois ce quartier en a bien besoin.

Le 120-140 mètres devraient être permis sur ce terrain pour créer un pôle dense et dynamique dans ce quartier qui en a tellement besoin.

Je t'ai mis un +1 fmfrank pour avoir repondu. Merci!

L’expansion à Contrecœur, est-ce déjà en branle? Ou ça branle?

Alain Bertaud Reveals What Really Shapes Our Cities in His New Book “Order Without Design” BY MEGAN CIPOLLINI ON FEBRUARY 11, 2019 That Alain Bertaud proclaims himself an “Urbanist,” staunchly refusing the title of “Urban Planner,” should come to no surprise after reading his latest tome Order Without Design: How Markets Shape Cities. In it, Bertaud calls into question the traditional role of a planner, which, as he points out, often results in harm to cities through over-planning. If it is not sophisticated plans, tediously drawn up by urban planners, that determine the shape of cities, what is it then? As Bertaud thoroughly demonstrates in the book, it is markets that are truly responsible for how a city is formed and how it functions. The book is broken into eight chapters that explore themes such as Affordability, Mobility, Alternative Urban Shapes and Utopias. But, throughout them all, its aim is to look at cities both through the lens of the urban planner as well as the economist. He points out that while urban planners are the practitioners, or technicians, in the realm of city design, economists are actually a necessary part of the decision making. It’s the economists, after all, who better understand markets. Bertaud illustrates, very visually, how markets physically shape cities by demonstrating how tall buildings in central business districts are perfect manifestations of market forces. Despite the additional expense of constructing extremely tall buildings, as land prices reach a peak, so must the height of our cities’ buildings. An image of Shanghai’s business district Pudong also aptly demonstrates how buildings reach heights of creativity through competitiveness in building design. Yet another example of supply and demand at work. While it’s difficult to point to an example of an entirely master planned city, Bertaud contrasts experimental cities that at one point had master planning in their scope with locations that have evolved more naturally over time. He compares places like Brasília in Brazil, famously planned by Lúcio Costa with buildings designed by Oscar Niemeyer, and Chandigarh in India, planned by Le Corbusier, with the organic urban sprawl of cities like Mumbai and Shanghai. By examining the highly-designed cities, it’s easy to see how over-planning leads to repetitiveness in the landscape as well as inefficiencies in operations. For example, in the 1950s, Chinese city planners mathematically calculated building spacing and heights with the goal of achieving minimum light requirements. The plan was for at least one bedroom in every apartment to have a minimum of one hour of sunlight on the shortest day of the year, the winter solstice. While seemingly a great step forward for humane living standards, this absurd metric had an unforeseen implication — that building height and spacing should be based, in part, on a city’s degree of latitude, which would of course impact the angle of sunlight at different times during the year. Without realizing it, Chinese planners had implemented a new universal building code that essentially implied that building densities should be higher in a lower latitude place like Phoenix than in higher latitude locations like New York City. This case is just one of the many unplanned-for implications of master planning. Perhaps it’s a surprise then that Bertaud himself was a one-time modernist. Indeed, taking some time off from his Beaux-Arts architecture studies, he once hitchhiked all the way from Paris to Chandigarh, where the founding father of Modernism, Le Corbusier, was working on a legendary master planned city, to be completed in 1951. Le Corbusier’s driving thesis at the time, as Bertaud dreamily remembers, was that “design can solve every city issue.” But it was precisely during this exotic city planning experience that Bertaud began to see cracks in the theory. The newly established capital of the Punjab state was inhabited, in great part, by a new class of bureaucrats, and these were the people who the city planners designed the landscape for. In the end, the place was so master planned, Bertaud notes, that “you would know from a person’s address exactly what the person’s job and status were.” But it was in the slums where Bertaud found that life ran more smoothly. It was there that supply and demand took over to shape the city. It was where local inhabitants determined how many, and what types of, businesses were required for the city’s operations. Barbers, garment suppliers, tailors, food markets, you name it — it was to the slums that Bertaud would retreat in order to sustain his life in Chandigarh. After that point, Bertaud took a different spin on his trade. “At the end of the day, Modernist design is just an aesthetic preference,” he proclaimed during my recent interview with him, while bringing up an extremely vivid example, once again from Le Corbusier. “Le Corbu liked the ramp,” he says. He incorporated it into many designs, including the iconic Villa Savoye in France and, as Bertaud points out, he “rationalized his designs.” But, in reality, as was the case with buildings like the Secretariat Building in Chandigarh, the ramps were built after the buildings, and not necessitated in any way. “So, totally fake,” as Bertaud noted. In the book, Bertaud is staunch in his belief that the loyalty of the urban planner should be not to the physical form of our cities, but rather to the efficiency of them. He outlines three major tenets of an efficient city: firms and households must have the freedom to stay put or to migrate at will; travel within the city must remain fast and cheap; real estate must be sufficiently affordable that it does not distort the allocation of labor. Two out of the three of those tenets center on mobility. Indeed, Bertaud dedicates an entire chapter to the topic, and perhaps not surprisingly, our conversation naturally took this course as well. He pointed out that, despite many other beneficial aspects of cities, their major functions are as labor markets. Without efficient mobility, people are not even able to get to their jobs, let alone move frequently between jobs to keep the job market humming. Throughout the course of his career, Bertaud has often been asked to review city plans; he says that a common theme he sees is a mapping of housing over jobs with the aim of arriving at perfect mobility. But this is not sustainable and does not solve the problem. After all, the job market is constantly fluctuating. Entire industries die out and new ones are formed continuously. Instead, the answer lies in rapid and efficient transportation. He points to a 450 kilometer-per-hour train that’s been operating in Shanghai for some 15 years and looks forward to a future where such — currently still overly-expensive — technology will be streamlined for regular commuter usage. Or a fleet of modern rickshaw-like mini-busses that take you directly to your door at the end of a workday, which are being test-run in the suburbs of Tokyo. He insists planners should be more focused on solutions like these. ... Lire le reste de l'article ici: http://sternoppy.com/2019/02/interview-with-alain-bertaud-the-urbanist-of-order-without-design/

Mouais. S'ils ont planifié d'y construire une tour à bureau, c'est que ce coin peut supporter une tour, d'où mon impression qu'ils vont plutôt opter pour du résidentiel.

Pas mal d'accord avec toi. D'ailleurs le recouvrement me fait penser à celui-ci, qui avait été tellement décrié sur ce forum (Pavillon pour la Paix Michal et Renata Hornstein).