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20 hours ago, Rocco said:

Il reste 11 étages à monter, ben oui 🙄

We could only dream. 

11 hours ago, Devcanqc said:

Your wrong they use maximum density permitted on the site !

Really?  The floor plate of the tower isn't exactly massive; it's pretty slender with some setbacks.  

Let's not forget that they developer could have built to the magic 120 metre height but chose not to.  

20 hours ago, SameGuy said:

Great picture, but the absolute worst angle for that building, especially with the truncated crown. In 2D it looks like a monotonous mass of grey concrete squares, straight out of the 70s.

Although the 1970's never were know for large windows; in fact, almost always tiny slivers of windows. 

IMHO, I think this aesthetic is far better than les Tours Drummond 1 & 2.  Too short by about 5 stories but... can't fight city hall.   

14 hours ago, Rocco said:

Toujours pas de murale sur le mur aveugle en décrépitude du Tecsult. Ils ont probablement pas eu le mémo.

Obvious place for one.  I suspect the owners of the building are curmudgeons not interested painting their building. 

26 minutes ago, Rocco said:

Je me souviens encore de Pierre Bourque qui avait accepté le Bureau en Gros au milieu des 90s en mentionnant que ce serait temporaire en attendant une future construction. J'en riait dans le temps et j'en ri encore.

Well, he wasn't wrong.  It's was specially built for BeG and is an easy tear-down that doesn't even take up the whole lot.  

I wonder if anyone at city hall thinks a flat line skyline like this,  in this case, all 120m buildings, looks even remotely strange.  Anyone?  

15 hours ago, Rocco said:

Le hall d'entrée des condos est complété.

Nice.  Almost hard to tell if these are renderings or reality! lol

1 hour ago, Rocco said:

If this was Broccolini's, a Montreal based company, towers would already been up on this site. CF is from Toronto, they give no S**t about this city. Since Plante is at helm, they vanished. 

Your last sentence says it all.  Obviously the Plante Admin is playing a part to some degree in their disinterest in developing these last great blocks.   That said...I thought CF announced they were going ahead with a phase I residential building.  

Anyways, dropped the ball or whatever,  the market is on-hold whether it's commercial or condo.  Rentals is another story I suppose.   

On 2023-05-03 at 5:37 PM, Rocco said:

These two towers looks like part of the same project that is to say, like a single complex with a commercial tower and a residential tower.  To the naked eye the glass coloration is so similar (esp in this light), they both have the transparent crowns/parapets.  I really wish they looked more distinct in particular in coloration of the exterior envelop. 

For sure a much less interesting "crown" but decent-looking nonetheless.  

Come on Livemore Phase II....

On 2023-05-02 at 2:57 PM, David St-Laurent said:

Pretty spectacular views from the upper floors of these 3 new towers - VslP too.   Wow. 

 I'm not looking forward to this project at all. Wasted a 120m lot on a squat, po-mo mess.  

There is a NY skyscraper - the Spiral - wrapping up construction in Hudson yards... there are trees that wind-up the thing all the way up to 308 m. And there won't be a tall parapet protecting them as at PBN - especially during the cold winter months.   They are probably going to plant those lollipop trees  anyways that don't offer a ton of shade as they grow but look kinda cute and add greenery.    

1 hour ago, Rocco said:

Et dire que Val Plante veut s'inspirer de Paris avec du max 37m partout.... Elle a tu déjà marché à Montréal? Regardez moi ces townhouses à perte de vue à un pied du core.

That *should be up-zoned.  🤗

Not so different from the west side of Manhattan near the Port Authority.  They built a ton of residential towers there near ramps and other ugly infrastructure in the last 20 years and it still not the UWS but it's lively. 

On 2023-04-19 at 9:13 AM, Brick said:

Toujours aussi massif et inhospitalier.

This podium looks like a distribution warehouse on the T-Can in Pointe-Claire.   What were they thinking? 

Love how this is turning-out.  And hopefully is spurs the neighboring lots to get developed soon... a 120m right behind this will look great. 

Is it just me or does it seem to take extra long to get the crowns of a lot of these new buildings done?  I suppose they're more complex to install?