ville-marie Bishop Ambassade - 10 étages

[SameGuy]

Preserving the row-house façades on all these projects may appear rather shallow (pardon the pun), but it’s eminently better than all the horribly monolithic podiums we see on all the new buildings along RL and SJ and elsewhere downtown.

[KOOL]

il y a 15 minutes, SameGuy a dit :

... and SJ...

628 did a marvelous job, VSLP kinda' blew it, BN is OK and 900 is generic.

[SameGuy]

Huge and impersonal.

[internationalx]

14 hours ago, SameGuy said:

Preserving the row-house façades on all these projects may appear rather shallow (pardon the pun), but it’s eminently better than all the horribly monolithic podiums we see on all the new buildings along RL and SJ and elsewhere downtown.

Couldn't agree more.  The reality, in most cases, only the facades are worth preserving; the vocation of these buildings changed over 100+ years and the interiors were all altered and massacred.  Especially during the rooming house years and later the bars and stores.   From the back they always looked like slums  IMHO (look out over them from the MMFA) and this way of adding density through façadism is also making better use of land in the rear.   Finally, they are essentially going back to their original vocation: residential use. 

[acpnc]

Il y a 21 heures, internationalx a dit :

Couldn't agree more.  The reality, in most cases, only the facades are worth preserving; the vocation of these buildings changed over 100+ years and the interiors were all altered and massacred.  Especially during the rooming house years and later the bars and stores.   From the back they always looked like slums  IMHO (look out over them from the MMFA) and this way of adding density through façadism is also making better use of land in the rear.   Finally, they are essentially going back to their original vocation: residential use. 

Tout à fait d'accord. 👍

[internationalx]

These small projects on Bishop are quite nice while one block over on Crescent, the projects are atrocious.  

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[TomC]

Mon pauvre Irish 😥😥. Je l'ai fréquenté pendant un sacré bout. J'en ai vu des games en tout genre dans ce pub. Et je n'oublierai jamais leur barre Mars frite 😍

[David St-Laurent]

[Brick]