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5 minutes ago, KOOL said:

On l'a échappé belle. Imaginez le Louis-Bohème sur les stéroïdes.  

C'était dans le temps où les conseillers en urbanisme avait du goût et un cerveau. 

Except you know it wasn't because they didn't like the design.  It was all about being too tall. 

If I recall, the developers of Louis-Boheme asked for a derogation to go taller and were refused.   Not that a taller version of that would have been beautiful but how about an exchange for more density for better architecture and finishes?  

What a view 🙄

54 minutes ago, Rocco said:

🎥 Terrassement de la toiture du basilaire.

Planting season:  get those trees installed. 

On 2023-04-11 at 4:38 PM, johan said:

La Poésie du Bleue 🩵💙

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11-04-2023

It'd be nice to get an 8-10 storey replacement there where Pharmaprix is located; some residential atop the retail.  Oublie ca des bureaux. 

Is LV opening a Maisonette here?  

It's kinda weird how they went "fancy" and gave the east facade the indented section and the west facade is just flat.  The east view is obstructed  by other towers compared to the west that is wide open - and will stay that way forever (basically). 

4 hours ago, Rocco said:

You know, that's not bad.  Mondrian-esque.  Montreal Boogie Woogie. 

On 2023-03-04 at 5:35 PM, Normand Hamel said:

On est maintenant 2 sur 16. J'ai toujours préféré la première version et j'étais même déçu lorsque j'ai pris connaissance de la nouvelle mouture. J'ai cependant appris à l'aimer avec le temps, mais pas autant que la première. Il s'agit de deux propositions totalement différentes qui ont chacune leurs mérites et je ne suis pas prêt à déchirer ma chemise pour défendre l'une contre l'autre. C'est que moi aussi j'adore les tours noirs, surtout lorsqu'elles son lustrées. L'une de mes préférées étant la Banque Canadienne Nationale sur la Place d'Armes, ex aequo avec le Westmount Square.

I have to comment on this:  the base of this original proposal is basically the AC Marriott on R-L. It's cheap and weird-looking and just ugly.  Meanwhile the black tower here too is reminiscent of pre-fab black Le Dorchester.  Yeah.  Non, merci.  

20 hours ago, Rocco said:

Last pic: that's one sexy cluster of towers.  ❤️

On 2023-02-19 at 2:07 PM, Ti-Pierre said:

L'Édifice de la Canadian General Electric au square Victoria 1932 - 1980 (démoli )

Photo no 1   1932

Photo no 2   entre 1940-45

Photo no 3  Aout 65 lors de la construction métro Victoria

Photo no 4  le 14 Aout 69

Photo no 5  le 31 oct. 76

Photo no 6  Aout 80 démolition

 

A shame.  It was perfect in combo with the Bell Telephone Bldg and allowed for it to be in view/on full display; en valeur if you will.  A single office tower of say 190-200m was all that needed to be built the west of it.    I really hate the the Bell building is lost in the skyline and even the streetscape.  Totally dominated by the chubbies of Place Maisonneuve. 

1 minute ago, KOOL said:

Don't put your expectations too high. 

Au début je pensais que presque toute la superficie du toit serait occupée par les arbres et que les étages mécaniques seraient situés plus bas. Lors de la construction on a réalisé à quel point le bloc bétonné du sommet  (affectueusement surnommé « Le maudit mognon chu' pu' capab'» sur le forum) occuperait une place monumentale sur le toit. Il ne reste plus pour les « arbres » qu'une petite bande de terrain qui longe la façade Ouest de la tour. On s'entend que ce ne sera pas des bonsaïs mais au mieux ça sera de petits arbres matures en bacs qui seront tout simplement montés au sommet dans l'ascenseur latéral donnant sur Notre-Dame.   

Oh, they're not high at all.  

Looking forward to seeing the trees get airlifted to the roof... 🤗

Version B.  Hands down. Version A is hideous. 

Awful.  I think the entire Roccabella project -1,2, and 3  - are a scar.  Ugly. Missed the boat completely.  The best last lot(s) on R-L Ouest and this is what gets built.   Had the twin towers been glass all around then it would have been passable.

Icon is runner-up.  

Is Montreal's built environment pretty grey?  Grey stone?  Street after street?  White would stand out but not in a necessarily good way.   FCP in Toronto is a good example of white. (i.e.: marble and now glass) as is the GM Bldg in NYC.  A canvar building in white?  Oublie ca. 

On 2023-02-28 at 5:39 AM, daniel_88 said:

 

Nice new addition to this area for sure; beefs it up.  Any chance the old Royal Bank building on the corner of Peel and Sherbrooke gets redeveloped?  Or is that lot too small to be worth it? For the moment at least.  It's pretty ugly. 

If the panels on the tower are as varied as in the renderings, this should be quite beautiful.  Another glass tower would have been boring IMHO. 

I'm waiting with baited breathe but I don't think it'll be long now as it appears we've reached the pouring of tower floors.  

2 hours ago, KOOL said:

En fait il date de 1957. À Montréal on était encore dans cette période bâtarde située entre l'Art Déco et le Style International. 

Of which we have so much of in Montreal.  This one doesn't bother me; it's limestone I believe, but they keep ruining the base.  A return to a more orignal look would do it good.   I find that Mid century stick in Montreal isn't as cared-for or acknowledged very much.  Even PVM has been bastardized.  

Will be roughly the same height as Place du Canada. 

9 hours ago, acpnc said:

Il est impossible à oublier car sa facture est digne d'une façade générique d'une grande surface de centre commercial style power-center de banlieue. 

Generic but as far as developer architecture, I have seen much, much worse.  At least it's not offensive and certainly isn't ugly (except the base).   The glass is very nice and adds much needed sparkle to this intersection.

37 minutes ago, Weka 29 said:

Et imaginez ce cluster enrichi de deux tours supplémentaires de 190-200m juste à droite de la TDLB (OACI 2)!

Hopefully with a silhouette that isn't straight-boxy.  Wish we could get a 200m tower with a crown a la Maison de Cooperants (KPMG) or McGill College tower.