Category Archives: Griifintown
Paris Rising, Montreal Falling, Neither Bodes Well
The two great French cities of the world, well, Montreal used to be worthy, are having some development conundrums. Paris has decided to add a dozen highrise buildings but away […]
Good News For Griffintown Horse Palace
MONTRÉAL – mercredi 24 octobre 2012 (english below) – L’avenir du Horse Palace de Griffintown semble mieux assuré avec l’annonce jeudi dernier de l’intention de la Ville de Montréal d’acheter […]
Leo Leonard
Chers amis de la Fondation du Horse Palace de Griffintown (an English message will follow) C’est avec tristesse que je vous annonce le décès de M. Leo Leonard, le propriétaire […]
Griffintown Horse Palace
Le Sud-Ouest demande à la Ville d’intervenir rapidement pour sauver le Horse Palace Montréal, le 12 avril 2012 – Le maire de l’arrondissement du Sud-Ouest, monsieur Benoit Dorais, presse la […]
Developer Buys Griffintown Horse Palace
Some nice ideas brought up, but basically they can do what they want with it. Developer buys historic Griffintown Horse Palace By Allison Lampert and Marian Scott, The Gazette March 7, […]
Griffintown Development Full Of Tremblay’s Hatred Of Good Urban Planning
Henry Aubin: City’s approach to Griffintown shameful “This is what Tremblay’s improvisation has begat: An emerging area that, with cranes swinging overhead, still has no coherent sense of direction. Who […]
Griffintown Horse Palace At Public Consultation Office Monday
Dear friends of the Griffintown Horse Palace Foundation, The Office of public consultation of Montreal has undertaken a very promising process that gives residents and other stakeholders a say on […]
Devimco Still Playing Games In Griffintown
Devimco: Irked by demolition, or competition? Posted by Alison Lampert Residents were supposed to be gathering Wednesday at a Southwest borough hearing over the demolition of a building at the corner of […]
“District Griffin” Begins…
Good friend, Factotum, has some pictures of the first phase of this absurd degradation of one of Montreal’s most fascinating neighborhoods. If anything distinguishes Montreal from other North American cities, […]
Scrapped In Griffintown On Saturday
Scrapped En collaboration avec la Fondation du Horse Palace de Griffintown, UOU vous invite au Horse Palace de Griffintown pour l’inauguration de Scrapped, une création de Jane Zdansky. Vouée au […]
A Sounding – St. Anne’s Reimagined- Griffintown
Urban Occupations Urbaines (UOU) has a number of events coming up throughout the summer. In collaboration with Le corridor culturel de Griffintown and Espace ALTER, the first of many interventions […]
Griffintown Nuit Blanche = Awesome!
Another great edition of the Griffintown Nuit Blanche, brought to you by all the good folks at the Griffintown Cultural Corridor, went down on Saturday. Around 1700 passed through the […]
Griffintown Architecture Walk Friday
Sorry for a such a late posting but been very distracted lately. I can’t make it myself but this one looks like it will be really interesting! English version follows
Performance in Griffintown On Friday
Urban Occupations Urbaines, in collaboration with Playwrights’ Workshop Montreal and Le Corridor Culturel de Griffintown, presents New City Happening a 24 hour performance installation created by S.Q.U.A.T, Chad Dembski, Joanna […]