May 15th, 2008
Montage du jour : Les condos Beauxarts
By Guillaume St-Jean // 10 Comments
2004-2008
Les condominiums Beauxarts, se situent au coin des rues Sherbrooke et St-Mathieu. Amorcé en 2004, cet ambitieux projet consistait à préserver la façade de 7 maisons de villes construites en 1877 et d'ériger à l'arrière une tour d'habitation de 20 étages.
Les façades restaurées des anciennes demeures bourgeoises redonnent un air de prestige à cette portion de la rue Sherbrooke, mais que dire de cette nouvelle tour de béton? Celle-ci est située tellement près de sa voisine immédiate, que ces 2 dernières semblent presque se toucher.
Bref, une fois le projet terminé, pouvons nous réellement dire que celui-ci est un succès ?
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I agree, the materials are of poor quality, especially given the marketing of this tower as a luxury product. It is not uncommon to see limestone and other far more luxurious materials used in construction today. As we have moved beyond post-modernism to modern traditional architecture and building, this is a disappointment. I will say that the restoration of the townhomes is of course, very welcome. It has occurred to me that it is very en vogue to live in downtown townhomes - hopefully this trend reaches Montreal. We have amazing stock.
I liked the variety that fronted the building, I remember there being a bike shop there downstairs. It looks OK now but I find it stale.
I got my hands on some architectural drawings and the condos only have 8 foot ceilings....in a "luxury" project.
I had no idea it had 8 ft ceilings... NOT luxury.
In a word, bof... the building looks like it belongs two streets down, on de Maisonneuve. And that's not a compliment.
I don't find the tower is the problem with this development, but the loss of true street-level variety in those vintage frontages.
The old greystones were originally residential, weren't they? If so, they brought them back to their original purpose. Which is not a bad thing. Fron west of Guy street, Sherbrooke becomes more and more residential, so it's fitting. As for the tower, I find that it looks not too bad when you look at the whole, from a distance. It's up close that it screams cheap.
The best condo projects in Montreal are the smaller ones, by inventive, often smaller, architectural firms (like Nomade), not that retarded post-modern crap that DCYSA keeps showering the city with (Roc Fleuri, 1200 DeMaisonneuve Ouest, The Simpson, Beaux-Arts, etc.).
"The old greystones were originally residential, weren’t they? If so, they brought them back to their original purpose. Which is not a bad thing. Fron west of Guy street, Sherbrooke becomes more and more residential, so it’s fitting."
why should we want that?
Martin, I agree with you about the big prefab po-mo condos. They're awful.
La tour est franchement raté. Je me serais attendu a un projet utilisant des matériaux beaucoup plus noble que des vulgaires panneaux de préfab...
Comment by Phil C.
May 15, 2008 | 1:01 pm