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  1. kool maudit
    so leftcoaster on ssp says that this project -- the unannounced section, actually, as apparently these three towers are just a small portion of the whole -- is his favourite skyscraper project in the country. i can't take it - i want to see some renders!
  2. kool maudit
    no, that's one block south.
  3. kool maudit
    in other cities that shall remain nameless, that would be the entrance to a concert hall or a boutique hotel. a glass hallway would lead you from it to an elegant tower, or even just a 9-10 storey glass city block in the berlin style. we have a problem here.
  4. kool maudit
    well, whatever - if we're not gonna do anything about it, let's build right up to it and all around it. toronto is doing it with the cpr tracks/gardner, and that is about 25 times wider than this. it'll be fine. i'm sure it will be fine. just build.
  5. kool maudit

    Expos de Montréal

    kool maudit a répondu à un sujet de mtlurb dans L'actualité

    Source: Team 990 What started initially as a couple of thoughts in passing on a French language radio show, has now turned into full fledged speculation in Montreal sports circles. A guest Tuesday on Melnick in the Afternoon with Mitch Melnick, former Expos broadcaster and current RDS.ca columnist Rodger Brulotte spoke about an interested group that's apparently serious about bringing professional baseball back to Montreal. Brulotte first spoke the words on a local French radio show and then posted them on his RDS blog. As of Wednesday morning, the blog had close to 14,000 views and has people talking. Brulotte explained Tuesday on THE TEAM 990 that this unnamed group approached him several times over the last couple of years and that he originally told them he was not interested in hearing them out. However, as their intentions have become more serious and in light of the recent Conference Board of Canada report that Montreal could support an MLB team under the right conditions, Brulotte has now gone public with their interest - presumably to gauge public support. It's unknown who the mystery group is, but some observers have speculated that it could be Quebecor, attempting to secure sports content for their multiple media platforms, in both languages, similar to Rogers Communications and its ownership of the Toronto Blue Jays. According to MLB.com's National Reporter Barry Bloom, a guest on Game Points with Matthew Ross on Tuesday night, MLB is not interested in expansion, but a franchise like Oakland could be moved in the next few years. He cited Tampa Bay's stadium lease as the major obstacle to that franchise leaving Florida.
  6. kool maudit
    it is the same way in france... a secure, fairly prestigious career with a large company or ministry is the desired thing. perks and privileges, not personal riches. it's a courtier's mentality, a thing that the french revolution didn't chop.
  7. kool maudit
    torontonians are not like americans at all. americans are louder, bolder and more boisterous. they talk to strangers more. torontonians are more like west londoners than like new yorkers.
  8. kool maudit
    it would never be temporary.
  9. kool maudit
    a lot of european cities have central cores composed exclusively from such buildings. it's not so bad to be hamburg in these blocks.
  10. kool maudit
    really? "go complain to the UN?" is that really how you want to have this conversation?
  11. kool maudit
    it's something out of 1991 atlanta.
  12. kool maudit
    come on guys - i know it evokes vintage nyc, but it won't look like the san remo if built. it will look postmodern and tacky, and it will make montreal look kitschy and second rate.
  13. kool maudit
    i just can't believe such a big brand will use such an '80s/'90s design. i predict a totally new render.
  14. kool maudit
    the west side should have basically continued on to the facade
  15. kool maudit
    again, the 1867-1976 period of montreal's history is subsumed under either more modern or more archaic layers. the hidden goal is obvious.
  16. kool maudit
    it is not a great or even good building.
  17. kool maudit
    there exist people who demand things like "green space," "public space" and "open space" at all times, at all opportunities and regardless of urban context. that's why the weird lot in front of the transat building is a weird lot, for example, and not the sherry-netherland hotel (which is what abuts central park's equivalent of that lot).
  18. kool maudit
    i actually hope it remains a shithole. if they make it a temporary square, they'll be tempted to make it a permanent one.
  19. kool maudit
    http://www.montrealgazette.com/business/Office+space+demand+2011/3944074/story.html Office space in demand for 2011 Vacancy rate. Growth likely to use up 400,000 square feet By ALLISON LAMPERT, The GazetteDecember 8, 2010 Montreal's downtown office market, already at its lowest vacancy rate in more than 20 years, is expected to pick up next year, raising the prospect of new construction, a Cushman & Wakefield report published yesterday says. While the Montreal market remained mostly flat in 2010, several Canadian cities exceeded industry expectations this year, with Toronto delivering the best performance in North America, the report said. Cushman's bullish outlook for 2011 includes the spectre of announcements for new construction across the country -including Montreal which hasn't had a privately-developed downtown office building since 1992. "It would be nice for the city of Montreal to get a tenant and an A building going," said Louis Burgos, branch manager for Cushman's Montreal offices. "It would be a positive sign for the city." The flat year Montreal experienced in 2010 was unusual for the city, which usually has 400,000 to 500,000 square feet of positive absorption after a recession, he said. "We're probably running a year behind," said Burgos, who expects to see such numbers next year. "We'll basically have our 2010 in 2011." Burgos attributed the delay in Montreal to companies' reluctance to hire post recession. "Our negative absorption in 2009 was over a million square feet. It was just a huge negative impact. Typically speaking, what happens in the business world is that before you start hiring again you need to be sure you are entrenched in a recovery mode," he said. "We're maybe slower and not as confident getting back into a hiring mode." Still the downtown central office vacancy rate in Montreal is around eight per cent -its lowest level since the 1980s. "If you're a major tenant in town right now looking for 200,000 or 250,000 square feet of contiguous space it's not there," he said. But unlike Toronto where the banking sector has been in expansion mode, Montreal's growth industry in 2010 -residential construction -doesn't translate into increased demand for downtown office space. Burgos said he believes natural company growth would compose the 400,000 to 500,000 square feet of positive absorption expected in 2011. If such natural growth continued for the next few years, Montreal's vacancy rate would drop further, driving up rents that have been stagnant in the last year. That would give the economic justification for new construction as rents would be higher in a new building. "If you say there's no new construction and if there's any kind of minimal absorption -and by that I would mean 400,000 or 500,000 square feet over the next three years -that would take a point off that downtown central area vacancy, so we'd go from eight per cent to five per cent," Burgos said. "At that point you're really, really tight on your space. So you can anticipate that the economic prices of rentals would be equivalent to the price of new construction." At the end of the day it's up to tenant demand. "They (companies) need to make a decision over the next 12 to 18 months in terms of where they're going to be three years from now - especially if they're going to take expansion," he said. "So long as the market picks up there might be an opportunity for development of a new office building." alampert@montrealgazette.com © Copyright © The Montreal Gazette
  20. kool maudit
    i mean, it's just so beautiful...
  21. kool maudit
    no problem: http://content.mkt941.com/ra/2010/27966/12/36041379/originak.jpg
  22. kool maudit
    hello seattle.
  23. kool maudit
    i mean, here we're sort of straining plausibility, as you can't realistically re-create the scale of a taller city in this fashion, but...
  24. kool maudit
    I'm just sayin'
  25. kool maudit

    Quartier Concordia

    kool maudit a répondu à un sujet de mtlurb dans Complétés

    well yes, but the daycare person isn't the child's mother. they're a daycare employee. this modern efficiency has a price.
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