If there were an award for cities with the most bent utility poles, Montreal would surely be a finalist.
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Originally a community settled by Irish immigrants in the 19th century to service industry along the Lachine Canal, Griffintown got its first heavy dose of ‘renewal’ in the mid-20th century by way of warehouses, parking lots and thruway elevated transportation infrastructure. This renewal was so successful that the neighbourhood became an exemplary no man’s land [...] Parc Lafontaine, MontrĂ©al When your walk home from work goes through this place, life ain’t bad. Palais de Justice, MontrĂ©al It is one thing to look at architecture from bygone eras and wonder “What were they thinking?”. Hindsight is 20/20, and even brutalism must have been avant-garde in the beginning. It is another, slightly more discouraging thing, however, to look at projects now under construction and wonder “What are they thinking?”. This sentiment, unfortunately, is [...] The island of Montreal The escape route (via the one major south shore bridge not in the midst of falling apart) 90km away from the island of Montreal Like an endangered species making a comeback from the brink of extinction, the construction crane has once again made a habitat of Montreal. While the sky literally falls on the city’s crumbling transportation infrastructure, its building stock is being renewed by all manners of new condos, office complexes, hotels and even a new mega-hospital or [...] |
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