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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 […]
Metaphors for Abandonment: Exploring Urban Ruins
Excellent article posted at Archaeology and Material Culture. An astounding number of web pages document abandoned materiality, encompassing a broad range of architectural spaces including asylums, bowling alleys, industrial sites, […]
Alternative Turcot Nominated For Wan Award
Groupe en Recherche Urbaine design major revamp of the Turcot multimodal interchange As aging infrastructures reach the end their useful life, major cities worldwide are tearing down high maintenance and […]
29 Abandoned Music Halls, Ballrooms, Theatres and Movie Palaces
Photo: Detroit Urbex Story
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 […]
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 […]
Unusual Architecture
Interesting blog that has pictures of unusual structures from around the world. Here is a solar furnace in France. The basket building in Ohio. And the parking garage of the […]
How Buildings Learn (Parts 1-6)
Stewart Brand’s masterwork book is also a BBC series. If you have any kind of an interest in architecture watch this! (videos take 40 secs to go). Part 2 would […]
Another Griffintown Commentator
Latest installment in my series of essays that shows who was criticizing the Griffintown proposal and why. My point, of course, is that if there was an ounce of compassion […]
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