May 26th, 2009
Photo du Jour : Optical illusion balconies
Posted by Chris Erb
The detailing on these balconies of a row of houses in Rosemont immediately caught my attention as I biked by. They’re so simple yet so creative. I have yet to see more of them anywhere else in the city.
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Those are very nice – I’ve never noticed them on any version of those postwar plexes common in some parts of Rosemont and Villeray.
There is an unusually beautiful balcony – a work of art of an Automatiste or surrealist style – in southwestern Villeray, on Drolet between Jean-Talon and avenue de Castelnau, on the west side of the street (to your left as you cycle up – Drolet is a one-way street north). I bet you can find it between your work and your home.
The little duplex it is part of seems to have been transformed into a single house; probably belongs to an artist.
Comment by Maria Gatti
May 26, 2009 @ 12:52 pm
I know exactly the balcony you’re talking about. It really is quite nice.
Comment by Chris Erb
May 26, 2009 @ 1:00 pm
That cladding, though. Ouch. The 1960s were cruel.
Comment by newurbanshapes
May 26, 2009 @ 3:38 pm
It’s little things like this that put the lie to the false dichotomy between art and economy that’s sometimes asserted whenever one of us complains about the featurelessness of some slapped-up development. (Comments like “Well, you urban hipster boho types must be swimming in money to want these artsy-fartsy features”, or somesuch.) Creativity need not cost a dime more.
Comment by Kaï in Côte-des-Neiges
May 27, 2009 @ 9:43 am
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