MUHC: Campus Glen - 12 étages (2015)

[denpanosekai]

This will age badly. The white will turn to gray within 5 years and they won't have budget to clean it up. Enjoy it will it's all Mr Sparkle.

 

Love the dark blue and red though!

[Rocco]

This will age badly. The white will turn to gray within 5 years and they won't have budget to clean it up. Enjoy it will it's all Mr Sparkle.

 

Love the dark blue and red though!

 

Age badly? Its already bad and it hasn't blown its first candle.

 

Why didn't they built it all of glass like the CHUM? I thought the Anglos had more money than the French!!

Modifié 13 juillet 2014 par Rocco

[Memphis 22]

Merci pour les photos, elles sont très belles

[ToxiK]

Très belles photos. Personnellement, j'aime bien ce projet et ses couleurs.

[ChrisDVD]

Age badly? Its already bad and it hasn't blown its first candle.

 

Why didn't they built it all of glass like the CHUM? I thought the Anglos had more money than the French!!

 

Oui, mais ils n'ont pas de gout!

[ScarletCoral]

via The Gazette :

 

Installing noise muffler on MUHC superhospital a possibility, SNC says

 

BY AARON DERFEL,

THE GAZETTE

JULY 15, 2014

 

MONTREAL — SNC-Lavalin is willing to attach noise mufflers to the massive ventilation system of the superhospital under construction in Westmount/Notre-Dame-de-Grâce in response to complaints by Westmount residents, says the project manager.

 

“Depending on the type of sound and where it’s coming from, it could be like a muffler that you can put on the (ventilation) unit, on the top,” Chantal Sorel, an SNC-Lavalin vice-president, told The Gazette.

 

“I’ve already talked with my technical team about what can be done, just in case, and they said there are different measures that can be taken to decrease the sound and one of them is to control it at the exit.”

 

SNC-Lavalin appears to have softened its position after complaints by area residents of a constant “jet engine”-like noise coming from the ventilation system of the newly completed Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, which is part of the superhospital complex.

 

At first, SNC-Lavalin officials insisted that the decibel levels were “at the limit” of Westmount’s noise bylaw, and even claimed that they’re lower than in 2010, before construction started. Although that is still Sorel’s view, she said she now wants to work with residents on a compromise.

 

But one Westmount resident, who lives on York Ave., expressed skepticism about any noise-mitigation measures.

 

“Even if you lower the decibel levels so that they are in compliance with municipal bylaws, it’s a nuisance noise that never stops,” Dorothy Lipovenko said. “I don’t know what the solution is, because even if it’s muffled and you hear it, do you want to hear a drone in your head all night long?”

 

Westmount hired an independent acoustics expert, who measured the outdoor noise at 53 decibels, three above the limit of the bylaw, said Duncan Campbell, the city’s director general.

 

“Certainly, the amount of noise that the new facility is generating is a concern,” Campbell said.

 

Lipovenko has identified four distinct sounds coming from the superhospital: “a high-pitched mechanical whine” that is like the sound of a “jet engine idling on the tarmac before taking off,” a “daytime roaring,” a buzzing noise and a “thrumming or humming” noise.

 

“Why was a ventilation system that serves a hospital of this size and complexity put in that building overlooking a residential area?” she asked. “Why wasn’t it, at least, turned the other way, facing the highway?”

 

Campbell said Westmount was consulted by the MUHC and SNC-Lavalin about zoning issues prior to construction, “but in terms of operational noise, we were never consulted.”

 

Sorel contended that ambient noise levels were higher before construction, and since the superhospital buildings went up, they have “blocked” the traffic noise coming from the Turcot Interchange.

 

She also suggested that noise levels will probably decrease after Sept. 30 — the date at which the engineering firm must turn the facilities over to the MUHC — because SNC-Lavalin is now running all systems at full blast to detect any potential mechanical problems that would need to be fixed.

 

Rebecca Burns, a spokesperson for the MUHC, said in a statement that “SNC- Lavalin has the responsibility to deliver a project that respects municipal, provincial and federal norms and bylaws. We have been asking SNC-Lavalin to address (Ms.) Lipovenko’s concerns since we received her initial complaint."

 

aderfel@montrealgazette.com

 

Twitter: Aaron_Derfel

 

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[Gbx]

Seems alu cladding actually age pretty well even without cleaning eg maisdon alcan or the bell and bnc buildings at square victoria

[Dr.D]

Très belles photos. Personnellement, j'aime bien ce projet et ses couleurs.

 

 

Je pense que c'est un nouveau style. J'ai vu quelque chose de semblable à Toronto samine passeet c'est un nouveau bâtiment à l'Université de Westfield à Massachusets

[Miska]

Je trouve très intéressant l'utilisation de couleur éclatante. Ça ajoute de la vie dans nos édifices trop souvent ternes.

 

Ce que j'aime moins parcontre c'est la disparité de la couleur neutre. Trop de variété dans les tons de gris, de pâle à foncé.

J'aurais préféré un gris moyen partout de façon égale, de cette façon les zones de couleur ressortirais même plus.

[eastender85]

Pas vraiment rapport avec le CUSM mais étant donné que ce sont les mêmes environs.... Je n'ai pas d'année précise mais je présume que c'est fin des années 60 début 70 les voies du centre n'ont pas l'air en fonction ce qui laisse à penser que l'autoroute Ville-Marie n'était pas complétée.