Doctor D

Is there room for a back exit?

I'm all for density but I'm going to miss this little oasis, even if it is a "faux-parc".

Just another voice; why so serous?

They brought in the pile-drivers for phase two.

No comparison, and I'm pretty sure the owners got their land back when they closed Mirabel. 

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/expropriated-mirabel-land-to-be-returned-1.605698#:~:text=Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced,to build Mirabel International Airport.

Thanks.

I am not saying that we should stop evolving, merely that when we respect the existing beauty, we create more beauty.

6 hours ago, jesseps said:

We need a larger labor force. At this rate, it will be a millennia, before our city can look like Shanghai - it only took a few decades over there.

As long as you don't mind a government that does what it wants with no consultations . . . 

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On 4/25/2021 at 6:39 PM, Dominic723 said:

The masonry is in very bad condition and was not salvageable, so it had to be demolished and it would have been pointless to keep it and try to patch it up again. In addition, the molded terracotta elements have been punctuated and will be remade in high quality concrete, as they were sunk, cracked and took water. (See the video at 13min). Nothing dramatic here.

So why not tear the whole thing down and start from scratch?

Thanks for the tour!

Yeah, it's not as if living to a major highway is a selling point.

True that!

That's what the rendering seems to imply: perhaps they are doing the same "deconstruct to reconstruct" like they did with the 1190 St Jacques when they built Tour des Canadiens 2? They literally took it apart and then rebuilt it in the same style. 

The original rendering gives the illusion that a single building would take up the entire block but in this one, it is clear that it is a totally separate building connected by an atrium. 

Language is everything and essential to negotiating meaning, and yes, people are passionate about such things; isn't what this forum is supposed to be about? 

I find it interesting that certain cities "marketing" of transit becomes a defining attribute of the city itself: the Chicago "L", the London "Tube",  the Seattle "Monorail" as opposed to Vancouvers "Skytrain, the "T" in Boston to name a few. It is a shame that the Paris "Metro" has now become a generic term like "Kleenex".

Perhaps we should embrace the "REM" as a marketing tool for Montreal transit - when you Google it, the only thing that comes up is the Montreal system (besides "Rapid Eye Movement", and of course the band of the same name).

Doesn't that mean we are always getting short changed on floor count? 

3 hours ago, maxi2515 said:

Gare Central has been closed since March, and Alexis Nihon is not really downtown core. 

I'm curious: where do you define the western edge of the downtown core? 

Great shots: you using a drone?

I came across this unadvertised dig yesterday but can't find anything about it on line. Right next to 2019 Moreau but I can't tell if it faces Ontario or Moreau.

Any ideas?

Work has begun.

A new project on a long abandoned lot in Westmount. More a http://www.relianceconstruction.com/print/?id=340&sub_menu_selected=HOSPITALITY_AND_RESIDENTIAL

and more details https://www.westmountindependent.com/WIv14.10a.pdf (page 9)

17 hours ago, Bandolero said:

Why is that one section of concrete wall going up so much faster than the rest?

"The UK’s London Underground was originally opened in 1863 for locomotive trains. In 1890, it became the world’s first metro system when electric trains began operating on one of its deep-level tube lines".(Dugdale, Magdalena. “World's Oldest Metro Systems.” Railway Technology, www.railway-technology.com/features/worlds-oldest-metro-systems/#:~:text=The UK's London Underground was,its deep-level tube lines. Accessed April 24, 2021).

"Paris Métro in France was opened on 19 July 1900. It was one of the first to use the term ‘metro’, which was abbreviated from its original operating company’s name, ‘Compagnie du chemin de fer métropolitain de Paris" (Ibid).

9 hours ago, SameGuy said:

It means “Metropolitan Railway,” first in London, then adopted by Paris; neither started “underground.” 

It was the other way around, at the beginning when the London Metropolitan Railway Company expanded from overground to underground trains, and so too later on in Paris when La Compagnie du chemin de fer métropolitain de Paris did the same.

Mexico DF’s STC uses stock from four different manufacturers, with some models being built by consortia among the four (Alstom/Concarríl, Bombardier/CAF, Bombardier/Alstom).

Well, when you are sitting in one, there is no question that they are the same cars we used to ride here.