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It just needs to be cleaned-up and upgraded/restored a bit. I think it looks charming with potential to be better. The whole row of pre-war maisonnettes need some attention but the way the towers have been positioned in the rear, this is going to be a very photographable vignette IMHO.

Especially if the zoning doesn't allow much in terms of height and density.

And the crown too (hopefully) will be save it from being rather mediocre.

It's going to be the same height at VslP.

Sun Life must be up there somewhere...

Well, damn. This is beautiful.

In the context of the REM de L'Est, I'd really rather see a tramway run down R-L from say Atwater to the Jacques Cartier Bridge.

There used to be a mall in PB. It died a slow death. They could try and go for a big box type of store - Ikea, perhaps.

Agreed it's a not a great name - even in English. I mean, not very creative. That said, there's a lot of "Anglo" history to Montreal too and a community that has contributed a lot so always disparaging "Anglo" is a bit tiresome not to mention that use of that word itself is increasingly derogatory: Anglo.

Avant-garde. 😝

The first residential tower (mixed-use, yes, I know) to reach 200m. Cool.

Chubby: "The Montreal Look." 😝

Could we still see - one day - a tower rise on top of the southwest corner of the Bell Centre? CF had an early plan for a tower there....

I'm certainly not ever going to complain about a massive, 200m banking tower rising in a formerly dead zone of downtown. Let's see it reach its full height before judgements are made.

Meh. This building just didn't deliver it for me. It's just a Post-Modern design circa 1995; the black pre-fab at the top, the black glass curtain walls on the side facades... nope. I actually prefer the backside to the front. Only the base and the façadism/ restoration is a success to me.

I think the most important thing here is not that it is some architectural icon but that it 1) repairs this corner and neighborhood 2) help makes it worthy of the Golden Square Mile built environment 3) pushes rue de la Montagne forward as the luxury address it seems like it's becoming. For all of it's flaws, The FS Hotel "cube" added much-needed gloss to the street, it eliminated a parking lot and replaced a hotel that was cheaply built (and was ugly); bringing a FS here to replace Hotel de la Montagne can't be a negative. All that said, they paid a lot of money for a lot that has limited density/height. There is no way this can be anything but a luxury product. Such a product should translate to luxury finishes or the semblance of. I really don't care about the 19-storey height here... this is not the place for a 40-storey building.

Brutal.

Same. This is arguably the ugliest intersection in town in what is supposed to be the chicest neighborhood. Waiting with baited breath.

And here I thought I was going to finally see a rendering... (dying to btw). They better make it good.

I'm hoping for an Esplanade Cartier-type project here... especially on that mega lot. Such a proposal would be more in tune with Old Montreal's built form.

Oops. I forgot I was on the VslP page. I was counting the BNC tower.

I count 29 floors....

Looks like this it topping out... another "tower" reaches its full height. 😜

My god, that height limits getting boring. Could you imagine if Montreal didn't have a sloped CV ... anyways, 120m here is okay with me. I will add, this project proposal is far closer to de Maisonneuve than it is to Sherbrooke so the whole "Maison Alcan at risk" scandal always perplexed me.

The Rogers building makes for a perfect hotel conversion opportunity. Exceptional location. Ideal size, scale.