March 18th, 2010
A mural in Villeray on the side of Les Habitations Saint-Georges, a public housing complex for the elderly. Created by Dominique Desbiens of MU Art in 2008. Entitled : “La 6e sphère de la culture”.
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Posted by Devin Alfaro
Categories Art & Culture, Housing / Habitation, Photo du jour, Public Art / Art public, Spacing Montréal, Villeray
March 17th, 2010
Vers 1910-2010
Étant considéré comme dangereux par la direction du CSSS Jacques-Viger, ce pavillon est désormais vacant et attends une nouvelle vocation.
Voyez plus de photos de la chapelle ici.
Emplacement via : Google streetview
Source : Musée McCord, MP-0000.819.1
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Permalink for Montage du jour : La chapelle de l’ancien couvent des soeurs de la Miséricorde, blvd. René-Lévesque
Posted by Guillaume St-Jean
Categories Avant-Après
March 17th, 2010
Grafitti seen at the corner of Berri and Lagarde in the Plateau.
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Posted by Devin Alfaro
Categories Graffiti, Photo du jour, Plateau Mont-Royal
March 16th, 2010
Modified based on an MTQ image – additions not to scale
This past weekend, the MTQ quietly broke the news to Radio-Canada and CBC News that the plan for the Turcot Interchange would be modified in response to some of the complaints made during the province’s environmental hearings (BAPE) last spring.
The winners of this announcement are the residents of rue Cazelais in the part of St. Henri known as ‘les Tanneries’, where 60 dwellings will be saved from the wrecking ball. (The remaining 100 units in the area won’t be as lucky.) The other area where revisions will be made is south of the Lachine Canal, where the A-15 skirts Côte St. Paul: rather than being rebuilt on an embankment (which critics charged would divide neighbourhoods), this section of the highway will be rebuilt on pillars, allowing movement underneath.
This is good news for residents of these areas, whose cause was taken up by the BAPE in its final report. However, the call to reduce total highway volume on the Turcot from the City and countless community groups went unheeded: the MTQ stands by its projections that daily flows will increase from 280,000 to 304,000 vehicles and there’s not a thing they can do about it. And their promise to integrate transit into the project with a reserved bus lane on the A-20/720 remains vague. (This is likely due to the incompatibility of reserved transit lanes with interchange ramps, where the very nature of an interchange requires that vehicles mix.)
It would be easy to rant against the MTQ for the general lack of vision exhibited in this cynical move to appease the more annoying voices in the southwest, but others will no doubt play that familiar tune. Rather, I would simply encourage folks at the MTQ to revise their drawings again, omitting inconsequential on-ramps like N, which serve no significant function in terms of regional transportation, yet threaten buildings like 780 St. Remi, a vibrant live-work space that houses many creative (and productive) artists for which Montreal is well-known.
The saga continues.
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Permalink for A small victory for the Southwest: Turcot plans modified
Posted by Jacob Larsen
Categories Spacing Montréal
March 16th, 2010
« La vie, c’est comme une bicyclette, il faut avancer pour ne pas perdre l’équilibre. »
- Albert Einstein
London, Paris, New York, Vancouver. Le monde est retombé amoureux de la petite reine. Enfin ! Les humains grossissent, le smog s’épaissit, et la Terre ne peut plus supporter notre coup de cœur pour l’automobile.
Il faut applaudir les tentatives récentes d’augmenter la présence du vélo à Montréal : un réseau croissant de piste cyclable 560 km de pistes cyclables – 800 km envisagés en 2013 ; un système révolutionnaire de vélo-partage. Montréal se veut bike-friendly.
Cette semaine, je reprends tous les éléments du premier scénario pour créer une rue qui met le vélo en premier. Je vous propose : le féru de vélo.
…continue reading Réimaginons la rue St-Viateur, part 3 : Le féru de vélo
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Posted by Émile Thomas
Categories Mile End, Planning / Urbanisme, Plateau Mont-Royal, Streetscape
A mural in Villeray on the side of Les Habitations Saint-Georges, a public housing complex for the elderly. Created by Dominique Desbiens of MU Art in 2008. Entitled : “La 6e sphère de la culture”.
