Ouvrages d'art - Antenne Rive-Sud

[Rocco]

[Enalung]

44 minutes ago, jerry said:

Geez, its not even open and you can already see a rust stain on the concrete beam going over the railway. I do hope that they will make improvements to the impermeabilization of the deck. Water is the number one enemy of infrastructure.

[Rocco]

Stationnement du Costco.

[Rocco]

Le long de l'autoroute.

[Pylône]

Montréal, "ville UNESCO de design". Pfff !

[Né entre les rapides]

il y a 56 minutes, Pylône a dit :

Montréal, "ville UNESCO de design". Pfff !

J'ai déjà écrit sur la signification de cette désignation.  Tu peux effectuer tes propres recherches, mais en résumé, c'est un encouragement à mieux faire en la matière, et nullement une consécration.  l'UNESCO a reconnu le potentiel de Montréal.

Certains cheerleaders montréalais, profitant d'une possible ambiguïté, se sont servis de cette désignation pour laisser entendre que Montréal s'était particulièrement distinguée.   On espère juste que ça viendra.

 

[SameGuy]

Et se concentrer sur les caténaires et les poteaux juste au niveau des aiguillages est un peu fourbe.

Much of the area is a sea of ugly, IMO the catenaries don’t particularly stand out. Now, we’ll see what they’re like in the West Island, but again, compared to the old ones? Compared to all the overhead utility lines and crooked wooden poles on every street in the city? Nobody will notice.

[Pylône]

Donc quand l'environnement est laid, on peut continuer de faire du laid. Ça doit être ça l'intégration architecturale. Comment on fait pour en sortir ?

[SameGuy]

It’s the way it looks because it’s the way it looks.

The catenary system itself is ugly, but the poster of those photos above chose to focus on specific poles and wires above track switches, which — because of complexity — are particularly ugly. A catenary will never look beautiful. In other words, they will be installed whether we like them or not. I didn’t say we should just shrug it off because other stuff is uglier so “why should we do better”, I simply said that they will not stand out compared to all the other ugliness in our city, such as all the overhead utility wires and their creosote-soaked pine log poles.

Just by the way, this has nothing to do with “city of design” either. Here is what the same Metropolis looks like in a similar system, in one of the most beautiful cities on the planet, Sydney:

 

In a normal perspective with normal human vision, sure, the poles and wires are there, but they don’t dominate the field of view. But play with perspective and foreshortening with a telescopic lens — as has been done time and again — and it looks imposing indeed… but our eyes don’t work this way:

[Enalung]

On 2021-08-09 at 10:31 AM, p_xavier said:

Can we please agree that the ramp seriously needs to be torn down? That thing is such an eyesore.