Readings of Gordon Matta-Clark
Very hot afternoon. There were some readings of the artist Gordon Matta-Clark‘s notes and letters on the lawn of the Canadian Centre for Architecture today. Really interesting despite the heat.
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Walk # 16
“Go outside. Don’t tell anyone and don’t bring your phone. Start walking and keep walking until you no longer know the road like the palm of your hand, because we […]
View of Verdun
Taken from a window on the fifth floor at City Hall.
Victor Lane
Took a walk down Victor Lane the other day. It runs behind the north side of Wellington from Strathmore down to Hickson. There are three lanes in Verdun that have […]
Ice Storm 2015
Nothing like ’98 but still there are people without power, treacherous walking and driving conditions. Nature at it’s finest, cold, brutal, beautiful.
Women Are Heroes
Courtesy of JR, this classic film shows the artist’s Women Are Heroes project in the Morro da Providencia flavela in Rio de Janiero, Brazil in 2008. JR’s intention in Women […]
Abandoned Romeo and Juliet
Rest Stops : Vanishing Relics of the American Roadside – Ryann Ford
Rest Stops : Vanishing Relics of the American RoadsideLiterally, before our eyes, rest stops are vanishing from the landscapes of America. All over the country, rest areas are losing the […]
Flâneurs in Automobiles – Learning From Las Vegas Revisited
Flâneurs in Automobiles* | Venturi and Scott Brown on the Road « dpr-barcelona. Could be a very interesting read, but I think I will hold off […]
Tokyo Vertical Buildings
tokyo vertical buildings. From Polar Inertia
La Chapelle des Franciscains
Church that burned down on Rene Levesque earlier this month. Some of the other section in the back looks salvageable.
Concordia Needs Some Colour
Or something. If you walk west along de Maisonneuve you will see Concordia’s concentration of buildings looking like a strange compressed overlap of styles. Here is the view from 8 […]
Irish Handball Alleys
Thanks to Pruned for finding this unique architectural collection of Irish Handball Allies. Most of them are not that old but it is interesting how so many of them have […]
Griffintown’s New City Gas Co. In Trouble
Nice, almost Dickensian feel to that header. Article in today’s Gazette about how the building could vibrate to death if a new dedicated south shore bus service road is built […]
A Different Turcot Idea
One of the options Transports Quebec had on the table with the Turcot Interchange was to simply renovate and strengthen the current interchange. It was estimated that this would cost […]
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