Maison symphonique de Montréal (2013)

[Memphis 22]

Ce chantier ne cesse de m'épater par sa rapidité d'exécution

 

Je suis d'accord,

 

de voir ainsi les balcons (sur ta photo) me donne le sentiment de voir réellement une salle de concerts, pas juste une masse de béton en construction

[yarabundi]

Ce sera plus long en ce qui concerne la finition intérieure puisqu'il faudra s'assûrer que l'acoustique soit parfait.

[vincethewipet]

Aujourd'hui:

 

 

[Memphis 22]

Encore des photos (tant que ce n'est pas terminé)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[FRED]

Merci bien pour les photos, j'en reviens pas comme ils vont vite pour la construire, tant mieux !

[cprail]

Merci pour les photos Memphis_22!

 

Aujourd'hui, en un peu plus traditionnel:

[Maisonneuve]

This weekend was Doors Open in Toronto. Diamond + Schmitt Architects was one of the firms open. They were giving presentations on some of their ongoing projects. The last project presented was the Salle de l'OSM. The Project Architect giving the presentation was Matthew Lella, who is from Montreal. He talked about making the hall world class, both in terms of architecture and acoustics. There's 20 architects working on the project; 10 from Diamond+Schmitt and 10 from AEdifica. He talked about how the site will end a portion of De Maisonneuve Blvd creating a vista straight down the boulevard towards the hall, specifically the common area, where spectators will congregate before, during intermissions and after. I was surprised that he did not mention how the project is part of a larger urban transformation in the area. He focused on the Salle de l'OSM and its relationship to Salle Wilfred Pelletier. One of hidden parts of the architecture is how the building was designed to reduce structure-borne sound from cars in the underground parking lots and the metro. The hall will actually be 3 buildings made to look like one mass from the exterior, a common trick when designing such buildings. The actual theater will be separate from the southern and northern parts of the building. Underneath the floor slab of the theatre are large rubber spacers, similar to giant hockey pucks, placed at intervals allowing it to float relative to the structure beneath it. The acoustical engineers said in order to create an ideal buffer, the distance from the floor slab of the theater to street level would have to be 2 storeys. Having the actual hall that hight would have ruined the effect seen from the south, so they objected to that. Also, musical companies can go bankrupt having to deliver to a hall with a theater 2 storeys above the street because of the extra cost in loading, manpower and time. To avoid this, the rubber spacer idea was used so that the floor of the theater can be on the Rez-de-Chaussee on De Maisonneuve. Everyone in the room seemed shocked how something as banal as a loading dock can influence the design of a building. Those of you in the architectural know that electrical rooms, rooftop units, loading docks and other utilitarian elements can spoil a great building if not taken care of at appropriate moments in the design process. Nothing should be kept to chance.

 

They showed pictures of the construction from within (what cannot be seen clearly from the street) of the seating area and the evolution of the form of the building. This project is a fast track contract, so the production of working drawings are happening as the building is being built. The excavation of the foundations and the pouring of the footings and foundation walls occurred while the working drawings for the rest of the building were not even completed. Other than the renderings we've all seen, most of the working drawings are being completed on the fly for substantial completion by Summer 2011. That means the interiors are probably only now being worked one. Same with the facade. Matthew Lella has been the Project Architect on similar halls in Toronto and Russia, and he wants to ensure that the Salle de l'OSM is one of the top musical venues in the world.

[mtlurb]

This weekend was Doors Open in Toronto. Diamond + Schmitt Architects was one of the firms open. [...]

 

Wow! Merci! Vraiment très intéressant!

[CFurtado]

31 mai

Things looking good.

[francely57]

1er juin 2010

 

depuis René-Lévesque

 

plus proche

 

le coin est visible à gauche depuis Clark/Ste-Catherine