Le Saint-Martin - 15 étages (2010)

[monctezuma]

What are they gonna do with the rest of the vacant space?

 

http://mtlurb.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27

[MartinMtl]

Look we all judged the Westin and look at the final product, we love it so maybe it will be the same case with this hotel

 

We love it? In my case, I'd say I tolerate it, at the most.

[francely57]

3 novembre 2009

 

depuis Sherbrooke

 

 

 

 

 

 

...je dis juste que je ne suis pas très très excité par ce projet!

Elle oui...

[MTLskyline]

Je ne sais pas si on a vu ce rendu:

[MontréalYul]

Je crois que le résultat à la fin sera plutôt beau!

[joaobruno]

OUi moi aussi je trouve

[Gbx]

IL semblerait que les panneaux bruns soit en fait en bois ou imitation, j'ai pas bien vu l'autre jour en passant devant. C'est mieux que sur les rendus.

[internationalx]

Here's my take on this - and this is symptomatic of a lot of the new developments we have been seeing in Montreal: there is a fixation/obsession with making all new buildings "fit" with the old and for everything to look the similar.

 

The problem is, a new building can't be an old building. They just come out looking cheap (materials) and boring, if not ugly. As a result, we are denying Montreal, new, exciting, different architecture; the kind of stuff that makes the city, any city, interesting to look at. Since when is Montreal so damn conservative and non-daring? That's not our reputation or our soul. Had we been that way in the 1950's and 1960's we never would have PVM, Place Victoria, Westmount Square, etc...

 

For me, what make the urban fabric fascinating is when we mix styles. What is the legacy our generation is leaving on the cityscape?

 

A glassy building with ripples in the facade would have been brilliant here.

Modifié 12 novembre 2009 par internationalx

[cprail]

(j'adorerais vous offrir quelques nouvelles images mais je suis au lit depuis 1 semaine; demain peut-être en allant remettre des travaux à Leacock je passerai devant)

Oui le brun est en faux-bois.

[Habsfan]

Here's my take on this - and this is symptomatic of a lot of the new developments we have been seeing in Montreal: there is a fixation/obsession with making all new buildings "fit" with the old and for everything to look the similar.

 

The problem is, a new building can't be an old building. They just come out looking cheap (materials) and boring, if not ugly. As a result, we are denying Montreal, new, exciting, different architecture; the kind of stuff that makes the city, any city, interesting to look at. Since when is Montreal so damn conservative and non-daring? That's not our reputation or our soul. Had we been that way in the 1950's and 1960's we never would have PVM, Place Victoria, Westmount Square, etc...

 

For me, what make the urban fabric fascinating is when we mix styles. What is the legacy our generation is leaving on the cityscape?

 

A glassy building with ripples in the facade would have been brilliant here.

 

 

Once again, I gotta say that internationalx is completely right. Our obsession(Héritage Montréal) to always want to make sure that everything fits perfectly in its environment is not realistic...i wish people over at Héritage Mtl would see this!