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Would've been sexier as 2 less fat towers on the same basilaire connected by sky bridges.. Or something that gives it more negative space.. Now this fatty looks like 2 separate towers Frankensteined together. She ain't ugly. Beauty comes in all sizes. But she sure makes the skyline feel like a plateau.. 

I like it but I hope they're not going bright yellow over the Lachine canal. 

Ugh. Some things should stay in 1965..

39 minutes ago, yarabundi said:

Il y a également des institutions : UQAM, université Concordia, Université McGill (l'édifice du 688 Sherbrooke ouest), le collège Dawson le CEPSUM et même l'université de Sherbrooke à Longueuil. Il y a aussi la Place Des Arts (incluant la Maison Symphonique et le Musée d'Art Contemporain), le Palais des Congrès. Aussi : une gare de chemin de fer, un gare de bus de banlieue. Il ne faut pas oublier le Centre Bell et le Stade Olympique. De plus il y a déjà au moins un complexe résidentiel relié au RÉSO : celui du Westmount Square. Je suis certain d'oublier certains édifices. 

Yup. The connectivity is diverse. I was just pointing it out because I asked why 900 st Jacques didn't seem to be connected to the RÉSO and had an equally diverse set of answers from: "general rule, RÉSO is for commercial buildings" to "insurance makes it complicated".

Investment in the RÉSO should be just as important as bicycle paths for the downtown core. Here's an example - I work on bleury and président Kennedy. I used to take the RÉSO all the way from PB in the winter. When the renovations on tdb and the construction of art de vivre started, road closures on ste cath made bus schedules unreliable, I found myself driving in the winter. One extra car on the road. I'm not proud of it but when you work the hours I do, small things can make a difference. All this to say, the RÉSO should be expanded at every chance possible. But this is just my humble opinion from personal experience and not based on any polls. 

So there you have it. It's not strictly office buildings only that connect to the RÉSO.. 

There is literally... a laundry list... of buildings in this city that need power washing. 

2 hours ago, Rocco said:

There is a similar bridge with similar yellow vertical pannels on the new part of highway 30 and it still packs a puch 10 years later. This is a nice artform that will at least divert from the gray of the concrete.

Exactly. We're not pouring blue paint over cracked concrete here. I quite like this splash of color. It reminds me of the giant French fry on the tullamarine expressway in Melbourne. 

That parking lot and bureau en gros needs to go. If this boom keeps up, I'm positive we'll get good news in the future 🤞

Does anyone Know what is happening with this building. It's been wearing a burkha for the longest time but nothing seems to be happening anymore...

5 hours ago, FrancSoisD said:

Tant qu'à nous teaser ainsi, as-tu déjà vu des rendus, ou seulement des esquisses? 👀

What city is this? 'Can't recognise it! 😜

Haha. From this angle in the first picture, we have nice slender buildings and a pleasing skyline to look at I think. A little more zoomed out with the fatties and it gets a bit lost. (Today was a beautiful day to be on Mont Royal. I don't know what those mountains are in the far distance on the right but it was nice to see them.) 

Damn. She's fat af.. 

19 hours ago, Né entre les rapides said:

C'est encore pire en déformant la traduction.  "Distorté" sonne comme une pièce de verre éclatant en mille morceaux.   

L'immeuble de la BN aura peut-être l'allure d'une forteresse plutôt que celle d'une tour:  un choix délibéré porteur d'un message subliminal -- la solidité à toute épreuve!  

I just wanted to show that it's perhaps not always taller buildings that are needed but slimmer and more slender ones. City blocks here tend to be quite large. Alot of cities have height restrictions but more striking skylines due to having more slender or tapered off buildings. Our BN is helped by distinctly different textures from the different window patterns that will break up the imposing nature of this Goliath. 

De plus, j'ai appris quelque chose de nouveau aujourd'hui. Distorted ne veut pas dire la même chose en anglais et en français.

22 minutes ago, Rocco said:

J'ai assez hâte que le BN arrête de ressembler à un mognon de pleins d'angles. Cibole yé tellement large qu'il arrive pas à prendre l'allure d'une tour.

There. Fixed. Just need to distort reality. Nothing to it. 

Je ne savais pas que le CC avait des bureaux dans cette tour ! Le st James est-il également fermé ? J'ai essayé de le réserver mais leur site web est manquant.. (sorry everyone else I know I'm massively off topic here!) 

7 minutes ago, FrancSoisD said:

However, I had passed under it and then had not seen it again, but it was at night and little lighted. Would it be east of St-André, then?

I don't, really: 'checked' em up on GMaps, as i keep confusing their names / locations ... 😂 ... to which i now must add Autograph (Humaniti Hotel), Delta, SpringHill, W, Westin. .. and possibly the ones i haven't noticed in the search results!

My point was merely that it seems that most (more than 80%) of the major hotel towers DT nowadays seem to be operated by various Marriott divisions. Therefore, mentioning any of them by the generic Marriott name without specifying the banner name may confuse some members! 😉

Peace out. ✌

Tell me about it. I was looking at booking a hotel for my parents when they come visit over Christmas and Marriott was dominant. And I think moxy is Marriott too? C'est une grande raison pour laquelle je voulais en savoir plus sur la connectivité.  Mes parents voulaient l'intercontinental à cause de son lien direct avec le RÉSO même si j'essaye de réserver à l'hôtel place d'armes.  (J'aime vraiment cet hôtel :P) 

3 hours ago, FrancSoisD said:

Even closer, we'll soon find a RÉSO access to SqVic station via the BNC.

And potentially even better eventually via the tower likely to be built on the western side of the SB, which would allow access to Bonaventure metro station + GC REM station (since Cité du Multimédia / Bernard Landry will be located further).

And although i'm not a fan of Coderre as a mayor, i must admit i love his party's idea of a pedestrian "high line" on the E side of the bridge-bldg.! It shall ideally comprise stairs + an elevator at each important arteries (StA, StJ, ND, Ottawa) between GC REM station and Wellington St.! 😃

Marriott, euh, ...AC? ...Château Champlain? ...Courtyard? ...Fairfield?  ...Renaissance? ...Residence inn? 

I've guessed you meant the Château, but i'm sure you get my point! 😉

What's your point? That you know your marriot hotels? 

The Marriott is not an office tower but a hotel like this one and yet is connected underground. I can buy the slip road reason though. 

6 hours ago, KOOL said:

Il y a quand même 4 ou 5 étages de stationnements souterrains sur un lot somme toute assez vaste dans une tour prévue pour des touristes (hôtel) ou résidents (locataires) qui n'ont pas tous des voitures. Le RÉSO ? Il n'y a qu'à traverser qu'un coin de rue pour être dans la PB et tout son réseau souterrain. Passerelle en hauteur ? Elle devrait passer par dessus le lot du South Block West où sont prévues deux tours de 200m dans un proche avenir. Je suis curieux de connaître la connectivité de ton commentaire. 

Sheesh calme toi 🙄 Just wondering why they didn't want to link it underground to PB and join the network. With winter and all. Just seemed like a missed opportunity. 

Definitely won't be the biggest parking lot for such a tall building. Probably no basement stores as well seeing that it's not connected to the RÉSO. Not the most inviting streets around either in terms of walking. And no overhead walkway to connect to the surrounding buildings. I'm curious on the connectivity of this building. 

30 years down the road on mtlurb

"I can't believe they almost demolished these charming maisonettes for an ugly black box." 

People love height waivers until it's in their own backyards 🙄

Hopefully that parking lot goes soon. Maybe the city will swap out the limit on the building height there for a social housing project in st Henri. 🙄 But I think at least 30 floors will be nice. 

8 hours ago, Ti-Pierre said:

Source of BLTA 

That last picture. Scary. Want a scary costume for Halloween? Go as a prefab building.. 

8 hours ago, KOOL said:

L'odéa sera donc le premier building de type griffintownien du côté Est de la track ? Mon dieu ! La contamination a franchi une nouvelle frontière naturelle. 

Most of the new buildings in multimedia city (except for Duke) are just as hideous and house tiny cramped shoebox condos with cheap construction... Multimedia city = Griffintown east..