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Ashok

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    Net-Zero, Low Carbon, Building Design
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  1. I wonder at which point the lack of land on the Island + the need for more housing, and therefore cost of land price will justify covering up the Decarie expressway. Here was a golden opportunity to have a park of some sort like we see near Villa Maria Station; or even add housings. It would be like a Private-public partnership type contract - here, you built houses and other amentities for residence and in return, you make the expressway better integrated into the city.
  2. Our very own Valley of Ashes .
  3. This photo deserves another look, hence the quote! But wow! Its like crane-city! I never seen Montreal have so much cranes in my life.
  4. Regarding the China skyscraper ban, here are additional considerations - note, I am not an expert on the topic, but here is what I am extrapolating based on the info provided in this video + my understanding of the PRC. (1) China is pushing hard to decarbonize its economy. 40% of global carbon emission is from the building sector, and Chinese cities - like most cities in the Global South - will experience massive growth as it urbanizes. (2) Net-Zero carbon building: right now, you can start hitting net-zero operational carbon emission around 10 to 15 floors. And China will urbanize more as the wealth creation moves from its coastal cities into inner China. Any sensible policies on climate change will have to decarbonize existing cities and control the carbon emission of newer buildings. (1st reason to ban skyscrapers.) (3) There is also a culture of parking wealth in real estate in China. This is true not just for Chinese culture... But, especially in China, your real estate does play a significant factor in finding a suitable lady. Even low-income families in China are pulling in their resources to invest in real estate. (4) But, this creates a bubble, really S**t quality, etc. No oversight, no rigorous standards or any mechanism to verify these standards are met - and skyscrapers because of their complexity and cost of a disaster is so high, it makes sense to Ban them or at least make it difficult to built them (difficult = require more permits, etc.) [think of the on-going crisis like potentially what ended up happening in 2008 , you can read more about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020–2022_Chinese_property_sector_crisis (so this is the 2nd reason to ban skyscrapers - think of it this way, this is the quickest way to increase the safety of buildings, by eliminating the ones with the most potential for disasters.) (5) What the Video missed. The wealth is unevenly distributed: China Plus, the Chinese economic miracle - so to say - has not been relatively even. Xiaoping's plan intentionally called for special economic zones opening up the coastal cities and thus the boom around coastal towns and that was 30 years ago. The thing is that most Chinese are still relatively poor - what we see, the expensive shiny glittering skyscrapers, etc., is only accessible to a relatively few Chinese... There has been a policy shift in recent years to crack on it. When I say recently, I mean in the past year or so - a final reason why skyscrapers are being banned is about the party's image and what it wants to project... and this probably has a lot to do with Xi Jinping trying to further consolidate power. (the 3rd, but probably the most important reason why skyscrapers are banned - its a sign of capitalism, but more specifically, its a sign of uneven distribution of wealth!!!) IMO, skyscrapers in China are not banned. There will be just a more rigorous standard, and you will need to get special permission from CCP to build them - but, China... it's big! So, we still will see some crazy skyscrapers coming from there.
  5. I believe this school is part of the next generation of schools. Here is a video of the concepts and ideas: https://youtu.be/YfMbqFUFJ18 more info on the projecT: http://www.lapointemagne.ca/projet/lab-ecole-rimouski/
  6. All good points - I was thinking a linear park covering the highway. Your point about St. Catherine is also valid, it will be a challenge logistically - perhaps too much.
  7. Montreal has to propose its own solutions - I propose an elevator indoor park that is covered by classing like a green house - acting as a bio dome dome across the city. Like small strips of park-ways, but connected. A but like the underground city, but overground. It isn't too too difficult to built such a park - you can try to regulate the temperature of the entire structure several ways, PV (Electricity), free thermal heating from the sun directly, and maybe some way to direct the heat from the overheating subways stations. So, am almost certain we can make this to be self-regulating using existing technologies (solar + heat recovery systems) Here are some good pathways for it... most of st. Catherine... And look, Guy Concordia Subway station is just around the corner - You should be able to provide a million homes with free heat from there. In case you are wondering what I am talking about in terms of free heat, am talking about this system: https://www.popularmechanics.com/home/interior-projects/how-to/a149/1275121/
  8. @anjou merci! The future/retro look was intentional, or sort of part of an experiment. Am so happy that you were able to see these photos as such.
  9. ^ yea, not surprising these days. So many of the building and real estate in the west is just a place for rich Foreigner to park there money.
  10. Yep, in front of Bryant Park.
  11. The front feature reminds me of the Bank of China building in NYC
  12. That rare moment that there is no line up wrapping around the block.
  13. Did not realize how fast this went up!
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