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  1. internationalx
    We're working on it.... Metro Gold line is on its way to Santa Monica and the Purple line from downtown and the Red Line from Hollywood to Santa Monica are advanced in the planning stage - soil testing and station planning. A LOT of Angelenos are waiting to abandon their cars!!! Freeway traffic is gotten to the point where the cultural shift is going to happen. Luckily I don't need to use the freeway very often )
  2. internationalx

    La LNH à Québec?

    internationalx a répondu à un sujet de mtlurb dans L'actualité

    I would LOVE to see a team back in Quebec City!!! Let's bring the game back home: more Canadian teams. Talk about Bettman sticking it to Balsillie...
  3. internationalx
    This is a great spot for mixed used (retail, office, residential). This would fit the vocation of de Maisonneuve Blvd well. Have SITQ/ Hines even revised their plan at all given that the Hotel St Martin is now a done deal? Surely the design will now have to be altered. Of all the office buildings proposed for Montreal, I think this one is most likely to succeed on account of the neighborhood being just about fully developed.
  4. internationalx
    I was checking the site on Google Satellite the other day - even with this hotel taking up a small section of the overall lot, a HUGE office building can still be built. The lot is very big: imagine an L-shaped base with the tower portion rising on the back 1/2 of the land. Retail along De Maisonneuve with entrances to the office building from both Mansfield and Metcalf. Lots of possibilities.
  5. internationalx
    My typing mistake... let's hope the height is NOT restricted to 110 m. That would be a shame... this whole stretch should be zoned for 200 m. It's not like developers are going to neccesarily use the max but let's face it: NO public consultations to amend the master plan = NO NIMBYS = NO immobilisme.
  6. internationalx
    Good location... breathing new life into the area around Jardin des Etoiles.
  7. internationalx
    I disagree - when you look at the Place including Balmoral AND Jeanne Mance, it is quite a good size space. These empty lots need to be sold to private developers and we need substantial sized buildings here. If the Place is Montreal's showcase civic square, grand buildings with amazing architecture have to be built on these lots.
  8. internationalx
    Damn... that is exciting. This is our opportunity for a quartier like La Defense in Paris. In other words, where developers can build towers without much red-tape. Let's hope the zoning heights are limited to 110m in this area. That would be a shame. The key is to get the architecture right! We should take this opportunity to build an architecture alley! Jean Nouvel , Zaha Hadid... are you there???
  9. internationalx
    Not sure if this has been brought up or discussed previously, but there was a hotel planned for a site near Guy and Dorchester in the early late 1950's or early 1960's designed by Peter Dickinson (CIBC Tower), called the Sheraton-Cartier Hotel. It may even be on this very block. Can be seen here: http://home.interlog.com/~urbanism/dickinson2.html
  10. internationalx
    Totally ridiculous... I call it a shiny ball: dangle the shiny ball and we all become mesmerized by it. In this case, another expo carries powerful memories of Expo 67 when the city was at its very, very peak of power and status. I actually think in recent years, we are doing the kind of city-building we need: QDS, QIM to name two. Re-habbing Dorchester Square is another good example. Attention is being paid to Griffintown and now the Bishop/Crescent Quartier. I've said it before: if you wanna jump-start Montreal's recognition and status in the world, the following projects will do it: MAC at Silo No.5, Bigger McCord Museum, Annex of the Museum of Fine Arts, perhaps near the CCA (ie: Cabot Square area) an Opera House... these are the kinds of projects we need. Expo's are really not that relevant anymore.
  11. internationalx
    Even if Quebec were to be become independent one day, there is nothing wrong with the name, given that the shared history of hundreds of years... the Square is also very meaningful/symbolic as is to A LOT of Montrealers. I know some don't think there is any Canadian history in Montreal - bizarre given that Montreal was the Metropolis of Canada, the economic motor of Canada and the pre-eminent cultural center of Canada for, again, hundreds of years. In fact, most of Canada's history is here. We are the most storied city in the country. Hands down. I'm not a fan of this intellectual cleansing of Montreal's history in order to suit one political persuasion that, arguably, most Montrealers don't subscribe to. If they did, Quebec would already be independent. Plus, the place is full of monuments and statues that fit with the name. That said, this will be spectacular when completed.
  12. internationalx
    I disagree: Times Square in New York is alive 24/7 and is full of 40-story office buildings that were built beginning in the mid-1990's. The key is to have retail/resto space on the ground floors. In fact, it is something I have noticed with a lot of New York office buildings - the ground floor is mostly retail. Bottom line: a vibrant QDS will happen with a mix of retail, cultural, residential and yes, office development.
  13. internationalx
    I do not believe these buildings should be torn down! There is so much empty land behind them on the same block to be able to build new and simply integrate them without this type of facadism. I think it turned out badly at the PDC on St.Antoine street and it will here too. This street corner is too interesting as far as urban fabric and history goes to demolish; it is the seedy nature that makes it so fascinating. With a few shiny new developments on empty lots, the seediness will fade anyways.
  14. internationalx
    Totally agree with earlier comments... MIXED USE! A mix of commercial/cultural space + residential, whether condos or rental units is the way to go in this area. This also makes it commercially ($$$) viable. For example, The Museum of Modern Art in NYC sold air rights and thus a 50 story residential tower called museum tower was built on top of one part the museum, allowing the museum to fill its coffers and pay for its activities. They are following the same formula on the west end of its property and sold the rights to Hines to build another residential tower. Added density is needed here too.. not 50 floors, but 15-18 would work well. There are plenty of 10 floor industrial buildings here.
  15. internationalx
    It's a shame that with as many stations they are planning to add to the yellow line on the south shore, (presumably bringing substantially more users) an extension in the other direction by 2 or 3 stations into the downtown core to McGill to relieve the crowded Green line isn't being seriously considered.
  16. internationalx
    Awesome news. I'm not a believer in the Laval "close-the-loop" thing though. I think it's redundant and a waste of money to connect the ends. I think people are all for it because it looks good on a map and would SEEM to make sense. Instead, I think all would be better served if the Bois-Franc extension simply went deeper into Laval. That said, I'm not convinced that portion is going to happen anyways.
  17. internationalx
    It's happening... http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Métro+network+extended/1997703/story.html
  18. internationalx
    I LOVE this project. I love this area - it reminds me of New York: the narrow streets, industrial buildings, era, architecture, materials... this is such an interesting part of downtown.
  19. internationalx
    AMAZING! model unit. Great project. I LOVE these old industrial buildings. They are sooo iconic for Montreal. Note: it is 10 stories!!!! And there are at least a dozen of this size of building all over the area... And the Angus project is too tall???
  20. internationalx
    These guys are really missing the bigger picture.
  21. internationalx
    This part of downtown is truly a no-man's land. This is an opportunity to expand the business and commercial core and integrate the area. Looking at that picture...although there are Victorian row homes they are not the dominant installation in the area anymore. More importantly, they aren't used as homes anymore (too bad) and because the area is so bombed out and life-less, their adaptive re-use is suffering. I mean, no one wants to open a business in them given the condition of the surroundings. Subsequently, they are falling into greater disrepair as time goes on. I can almost guarantee that if this project were to go ahead, these little Victorian row homes would become a HOT commodity - investors and entrepreneurs alike would pounce on them, restore them and use them for a range of mixed used purposes.
  22. internationalx
    That statement is rambling. A lot of words, but nothing definitive is said. That said, this really is a top-notch project and NOT out of place at all! There is low-density here because there are mostly surface parking lots... we need to increase density in the downtown core... which is why the project is so great. These people are clueless technocrats.
  23. internationalx
    "Reveillez, on parle du boulevard René-Lévesque! Est-ce on chialle vraiment qu'on construit en hauteur sur un des boulevards principaux du centre-ville, ou se retrouve la Place Ville Marie, la Tour CIBC, etc... comme on, un peu de bon sens S.V.P.!!!" It is the ONE axis where there should be 200m zoning from Guy street to at least Bleury. I mean, it's not like developers take advantage of zoning heights on certain lots to begin with. It is time to review the master-plan! eg: Crystal de la Montagne and the Marriott planned for PVM. Both lots have 200m zoning yet...
  24. internationalx
    Almost no words... this part of the city is dead. desolate. virtually lifeless. A project like this will totally re-invigorate the sector. This corner NEEDS to be re-invented. It is BEGGING to be re-invented. What urban fabric is there to protect, other than a few of the remaining Victorian townhomes?? Using their reasoning - The Royal Bank building on St Jacques would never have been built, the Bell Telephone Building on Beaver Hall never would have been built, Sun Life never would have been built. I am so sick of hearing about "fitting" into a neighborhood. Perhaps this argument is valid in a low-rise residential neighborhood (ie: the Plateau). But in the business core, we should be mixing styles and sizes/heights. It makes for an interesting urban fabric.
  25. internationalx
    True... but they were under the gun of the world spotlight, has the IOC as a client, AND the Quebec Government effectively was running the show by mid-1975. This is actually voluntary rapid action.
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