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  1. kool maudit
    it was some sort of auto-repair thing.
  2. kool maudit
    so will they be finishing this building according to plan?
  3. kool maudit
    i don't agree. that area needs a few things whose architecture says "this is not simply a tourist france for horse cars. this is the ancient heart of a great north american merchant city."
  4. kool maudit
    i have forwarded my complaint to the mayor and the ville-marie borough council. it is outrageous that this unelected group are seeking to promote decay and underdevelopment in my neighbourhood. it is vandalism.
  5. kool maudit
    who is the relevant borough mayor? i confess that i don't follow municipal politics.
  6. kool maudit
    As an area resident, I have contacted the Gazette, Altoria management and Heritage Montreal regarding this. To HM, I sent the following: "Dear Heritage Montreal, Re: Paper Hill, as a resident of this area, your call to action regarding the proposed 34-storey tower is deeply irresponsible. While you are nominally seeking to protect a view of St-Patrick's, what you are actually doing is protecting a mediocre, mostly-abandoned-for-years building that was never in keeping with the central, landmark quality of Victoria Square. In protecting views, you must avoid inadvertently protecting urban gaps, waste lands, parking lots and underdeveloped sectors. As a Paper Hill resident, we seek less, not more, desolation and emptiness."
  7. kool maudit
    bumbaru is incoherent, but also very cynical; listen to what he is saying: we must protect this view of a historic church -- which is a thing many montrealers would support. what that actually means, though, in terms of the built environment, is that he is protecting an ugly, mediocre building which has sat half-abandoned, half-full of low-rent businesses for years. in protecting this, of course, we prevent the construction of a much more striking building, and a much more suitable-for-the-quarter populace of inhabitants and businesses. it is in this way that the self-appointed protectors of our heritage are instead protectors of our parking lots, our urban gaps , our dead spaces and our waste lands. it's a corrupt and corrupting thing to do.
  8. kool maudit
    worse t-shirts though.
  9. kool maudit
    come on 40... we haven't seen 40 forevs.
  10. kool maudit
    it's good in the sense that quebec needs some diversity in its political scene; we have accepted statism as part of the "modern quebec identity" for too long. unlike MTLSkyline, however, i am unenthusiastic about tea party-style populist conservatism. i prefer a more elitist and economics-centred model.
  11. kool maudit
    the silence on this one is getting weird.
  12. kool maudit
    what a neighbourhood this will soon be...
  13. kool maudit
    montreal has always liked fat towers: the old royal bank, sun life, pvm, the bn/aon brothers and now this chubby chicken.
  14. kool maudit
    so the facade will now be far broader than the renderings depict?
  15. kool maudit
    oh ok - so it is a separate building? i thought there was some confusion on this point. cool.
  16. kool maudit
    so, this 24-floor part... is what?
  17. kool maudit
    the history has always been too complicated for a one-word answer to this.
  18. kool maudit
    it's that row of multi-coloured philadelphia-esque houses. with the aldred, they create a special look, a kind of comic-book 1940s americana feeling. maybe it's just me.
  19. kool maudit
    so... what's the deal with this 24-floor phase 2 exactly?
  20. kool maudit
    anderson street is one of the city's most photogenic 3-storey rows; it's not so bad for this 40-storey tower to kind of meet the street this way.
  21. kool maudit
    integration isn't the only approach to new construction though.
  22. kool maudit
    i don't get the above comment... how do a few condo towers on an island visited near-exclusively by locals impact the view of our city that american tourists receive? and why americans specifically? what is going on here? i think the concierge at the westin has more control over such views than all current nun's island developments combined.
  23. kool maudit
    i have long thought that canada is very fertile ground for a non-populist right-wing political party. we're not tea partiers -- our conservative tradition has always been more, well, traditional. more elitist. we are, after all, the country that didn't join the (radical at the time) american revolution. we're conservative by temperament, if not -- at least at the moment -- politically.
  24. kool maudit
    quebec has to ditch the left.
  25. kool maudit
    "like most criticisms of Quebec society coming from outside the province" another swipe. they know they have a tone problem, they know it relates to the ancient toronto/montreal thing and they know it's an internal directive. acting above it all is just another way to re-enact this.
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