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Le Festival des grues de Montréal

On n'avait pas vu autant de grues de construction percer le ciel de Montréal depuis l'année qui a précédé les Jeux olympiques de 1976. Montréal n'est pas encore São Paulo ni Pékin - où l'on peut recenser jusqu'à plusieurs centaines de grues qui participent simultanément à l'érection de tours de logements et de bureaux -, mais l'activité immobilière résidentielle, commerciale et industrielle est forte comme elle ne l'a pas été depuis longtemps.

C'est en constatant le nombre important et inhabituel de grues de construction qui s'activait dans le ciel montréalais que j'ai confié à un collègue qu'il me semblait qu'on n'avait pas vu autant de grues à Montréal depuis les Jeux olympiques de 1976.

Une intuition qui m'a été rapidement confirmée par la Direction du développement économique de la Ville de Montréal lorsque j'ai demandé combien de grues étaient en activité sur les chantiers de la métropole.

«On a 75 grues de construction en activité à Montréal. On n'avait pas enregistré une telle activité depuis les Jeux olympiques de 1976», m'a répondu Guy de Repentigny, chef de division à la Direction du développement économique et urbain de Montréal.

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Au moins, cette fois-ci, ils ne construiront pas leur propre bâtiment.


21-07-2012
Le Grand Plaza transformé en Résidence Soleil

PAR HUGO JONCAS
Les Affaires

Fermé depuis 2010, l'ancien hôtel Grand Plaza, à l'angle des rues Sherbrooke et Berri, à Montréal, sera converti en résidence pour personnes âgées. Le Groupe Savoie l'a acquis en avril pour 26,85 millions de dollars, a appris Les Affaires.

«Nous le transformerons en Résidence Soleil, dit Eddy Savoie, fondateur et président du conseil d'administration du Groupe Savoie. Ça va être la première résidence au Québec directement au-dessus d'un métro.» L'immeuble de 24 étages communique avec la station Sherbrooke, sur la ligne orange, à la limite du Plateau-Mont-Royal et du Quartier Latin.

Le Groupe Savoie y aménagera entre 415 et 440 appartements, dit le fondateur. L'entreprise devrait avoir terminé les travaux d'ici sept mois et accueillir les résidents d'ici avril ou mai 2013.

En plus du prix de l'ancien hôtel, construit en 1974, le Groupe pense devoir débourser de 15 à 20 millions supplémentaires pour transformer l'immeuble en résidence. «Il y aura une vue extraordinaire sur l'ensemble de la ville et sur la Rive-Sud», dit M. Savoie.

L'entreprise cherche depuis un certain temps à mettre la main sur une tour susceptible d'être transformée en résidence communiquant avec le métro. «Il s'agissait d'avoir l'occasion de faire une telle acquisition», dit M. Savoie. Jusqu'ici, elle ne s'était pas présentée.

Ces dernières années, l'Université McGill a acquis plusieurs hôtels vieillissants du centre-ville pour en faire des résidences étudiantes. La dernière transaction concerne l'ancien hôtel Courtyard Marriott, sur Sherbrooke Ouest. Mais c'est la première fois qu'un hôtel est racheté pour loger une clientèle âgée.

Pour Eddy Savoie, le choix est pourtant logique. Les résidents pourront aller sans voiture partout où le réseau du métro s'étend. «Les enfants des résidents pourront venir les voir facilement.»

Les résidents seront également à proximité de la vie de quartier du Plateau-Mont-Royal, du parc La Fontaine et de la Grande Bibliothèque du Québec, une station de métro plus au sud.

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Très bonne nouvelle. Il s'agit d'un bâtiment inoffensif. Il serait un gaspillage de d'abandonner ou de démolir le bâtiment, car il semble solide. C'est un soulagement que les Résidences Soleil l'a acheté au lieu de construire un nouveau. Espérons qu'une horloge ne ​​sera pas ajouté.
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New condo project on the southern side of the Lachine Canal presumably in Point St. Charles:

http://www.mystcondos.com/

This I find somewhat intriguing, as I like minimalist architecture.


Promoter is Carpet Art Deco according to Guide Habitation. If they are putting condos on the site of their own building, that would put the location here.
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La place des Nations, une cour de voirie en voie de transformation

Par Mathias Marchal, Journal Métro
Mise à jour: 19 juillet 2012 | 20:16


La place des Nations. Yves Provencher/Métro

Le maire Jean Drapeau se retournerait dans sa tombe s’il apprenait que la place des Nations, ancien centre névralgique de l’Expo 67, sert aujourd’hui de lieu de stockage.

C’est ce que déplore Héritage Montréal qui songe à inscrire le lieu sur sa liste des éléments patrimoniaux sous observation.

«Regardez, c’est devenu une cour de voirie», déplore Dinu Bumbaru, président d’Héritage Montréal en pointant du doigt des grilles et des tables de pique-nique empilées sur le site.

On a même découpé une partie d’une ancienne passerelle de bois pour favoriser le passage des camions.

Difficile d’imaginer que les différentes délégations ont défilé ici lors de l’exposition universelle de 1967. Aujourd’hui, les seuls à y parader sont les cols bleus.

Pourtant le site est magnifique fait remarquer M. Bumbaru. Du haut des vieux gradins en forme de pyramides aztèques, on peut admirer à la fois le pont Jacques-Cartier, le centre-ville et le fleuve. Son principal défaut: être plutôt excentré.

Du côté de la Ville, on se fait rassurant. «À l’approche du 375e anniversaire de sa fondation, Montréal a entrepris de se refaire une beauté», répond Ariane Lareau, une des relationnistes de la Ville. Elle signale que le gouvernement du Québec a annoncé dans son dernier budget des investissements de 35 M$ au parc Jean-Drapeau.

De cette somme, 12 M$ sont prévus pour le réaménagement de la Place des Nations. Elle servira de lieu d’animation, en plus d’illustrer l’apport des immigrants à la vitalité de la ville. Une terrasse verte sera aussi aménagée au niveau du pont de la Concorde, qui surplombe le site, offrant ainsi une vue panoramique sur la métropole.

S’il y a cinq ans, la Ville a consulté plusieurs partenaires, dont Héritage Montréal, pour imaginer un plan de réaménagement des îles, la consultation ne semble plus être au menu.

«C’est décevant quand on participe à un processus de consultation d’apprendre les choses en consultant des documents gouvernementaux», déplore M. Bumbaru, Il appelle au passage la Ville et la Société du parc Jean-Drapeau – «qui fonctionne comme si elle était une baronnie», dit-il –, à plus de transparence.

Le legs du gouvernement pour 2017

*Québec a prévu 125 M$ pour des projets liés au 375e anniversaire de fondation de Montréal:

*Nouveau aménagements au Biodôme, au Jardin Botanique et à l’Insectarium: 45 M$

*Réaménagements au Parc Jean-Drapeau: 35 M$

*Construction d’un nouveau pavillon au Musée des beaux-arts: 18 M$

*Création d’un observatoire à l’Oratoire Saint-Joseph: 26 M$
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New condo project on the southern side of the Lachine Canal presumably in Point St. Charles:

http://www.mystcondos.com/

This I find somewhat intriguing, as I like minimalist architecture.


Promoter is Carpet Art Deco according to Guide Habitation. If they are putting condos on the site of their own building, that would put the location here.
They are indeed putting condos instead of their warehouse, most of the staff have already moved to a new location in Lasalle, and they are currently building the sales office.

Here's a render from the neighborhood paper that was published a few months ago for that project:


The article with more details
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21-07-2012
Le Grand Plaza transformé en Résidence Soleil

PAR HUGO JONCAS
Les Affaires

Fermé depuis 2010, l'ancien hôtel Grand Plaza, à l'angle des rues Sherbrooke et Berri, à Montréal, sera converti en résidence pour personnes âgées. Le Groupe Savoie l'a acquis en avril pour 26,85 millions de dollars, a appris Les Affaires.


http://www.lesaffaires.com/archives/...-soleil/546679
Ca me surprends pas que ce groupe ait choisit une des tours les plus laides dans un des coins les plus laids de la metropole. Residences pour personnes âgée? Bof.
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They are indeed putting condos instead of their warehouse, most of the staff have already moved to a new location in Lasalle, and they are currently building the sales office.

Here's a render from the neighborhood paper that was published a few months ago for that project:


The article with more details
Thanks for sharing, that's a very nice project!
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A brand new old school for 220 cooking and tourism students in Montreal

By Brenda Branswell, Gazette Education Reporter
July 20, 2012


The outside of the Ecole des metiers de la restauration et du tourisme de Montreal on Thursday July 19, 2012. The school was formely known as the Victoria School which is located on Demaisonneuve.
Photograph by: Pierre Obendrauf, THE GAZETTE


MONTREAL - When school starts in late August, the 220 students at a downtown cooking and tourism school will start their programs in a brand new, old school.

You won’t find many older school buildings in Montreal than the former Victoria School.

The Queen Anne-style heritage building on de Maisonneuve Blvd. near St. Mathieu went up in 1887. It was designed by Alexander Francis Dunlop – the same architect behind what is now St. James United Church.

But like some aging buildings, it fell into neglect, lying empty for several years with a leaky roof.

The work to restore and transform the building for its new vocation included an emergency roof repair, mould removal and work on the building’s exterior.

It cost $10.4 million, according to the Commission scolaire de Montréal, including a $2.1 million cost overrun in the second phase, which it said was mainly related to the unforeseen decontamination.

The work to disinfect the building was only part of the project, but it has become a familiar problem for the CSDM.

In the case of École Saint-Gérard in the Villeray district, which was evacuated in January because of mould spores, the board favours a drastic proposal – demolishing it and building a new, bigger school on the same site.

Students at three other CSDM schools afflicted with a mould problem – Hochelaga, Baril and Saint-Nom-de-Jésus – also face relocation this fall.

The board largely chalks up its $46 million deficit in 2011-12 to mould in some of its schools. And it wants financial help from the Education Department for schools facing that problem. It doesn’t receive funding for it now, said Nathalie Roberge, a board spokesperson.

The Education Department covered $6 million of the total cost of the work on Victoria School, now the École des métiers de la restauration et du tourisme de Montréal, Roberge said.

The Victoria School sign engraved in stone over the arched entrance has faded. Inside the classrooms, bubble wrap lay on the pristine desks that had just arrived on Thursday. The old wainscotting is still in place on the ground floor along with the original wooden front doors. What was once a gymnasium built in 1911 is now a large kitchen for the cooking school. A glass bridge connects it to the old part of the building.

“It’s a combination of contemporary architecture and historic,” said Gavin Affleck, a partner at Affleck & de la Riva architectes, part of the consortium that has worked on the project with Vincent Leclerc & associés.

The building has a lot of qualities “and it needed a lot of help,” Affleck said.

“We had a major contamination problem because the building had been abandoned for almost 10 years and the roof was leaking,” Affleck said. The decontamination has been done successfully, he added.

The exterior is pretty much the original, he said. Work on the outside of the school included installing a copper and slate roof, the original covering. It’s the costliest option but also the most affordable in the long run, Affleck said. An asphalt roof would have cost about half the price and the difference was made up by a city of Montreal grant, he said.

“We’re pretty happy with the exterior look.”

It will probably take them two years to obtain LEED – Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design – certification for the building, Affleck said of the green building program.

The amount spent to decontaminate, renovate and restore the building was more than what a new school might cost. But Affleck said it’s more expensive to restore a historic building.

He argued that you can’t compare a brand new school to a restored historic building. The cultural value of maintaining the historic building is huge, said Affleck, and something he believes goes beyond any financial concern.

Affleck also spoke of the intrinsic value of the building, noting the reason it survived is because it was better built.

There’s always a way to do things cheaply, “but cheap comes with a cost,” said Dinu Bumbaru, policy director at Heritage Montreal.

Bumbaru said he believes the CSDM is the only school board in Canada with a heritage committee. Some years ago its Catholic predecessor — the Commission des écoles catholiques de Montréal – was “very insensitive” to the architectural and historical heritage they had in their hands, Bumbaru said. They made some dramatic remodelling, tearing down buildings and architectural features such as plaques, lettering and cornices, he said.

“We’re quite happy to see it come alive again,” Bumbaru said of the old Victoria School.

Allison Reid, who is managing an environmental project on the same block as the school spearheaded by the Éco-quartier Peter McGill, said residents are happy to hear the building has been cleaned up.

“I think in the city when there’s a large space like that that isn’t used, it causes a lot of harm to the neighbourhood,” she said.

“So to have it cleaned up and used and have people going in and out of it every day is a huge improvement.”

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La course aux grues à Montreal
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^ Dinnu Bumbaru dit que la vue du Mont-Royal sera affectée par ces nouvelles tours et dénonce la façon sauvage à laquelle Montréal se développe depuis 2 ou 3 ans. Montréal immobile pendant 20 ans, soudainement se réveille et y'en a qui chialle encore, une chance qu'ils ne sont pas à Toronto !
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Maybe, but Marois might build her own temple with silent toilets to boot.
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Tres bon reportage de mr. Roy, merci pour avoir partager.


Bon, a l'exception de la contribution minable de bumbaru, qui a bon dire des choses logiques, quand ca sort de sa bouche je n'entendes que du bruit, genre le son d'assiette qui tombe a terre ou quelque chose du style...
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I read that the CIBC Tower used to have its own public observation deck on the 45th floor that closed in the 1970s.

Does anyone know why it was closed?
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They close it and moved the cafeteria there. I managed to make my way up there once, before someone asked me to leave.
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Does anyone know what they are doing to the Confederation Building?


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By Karen Seidman, The Gazette July 25, 2012

MONTREAL – Pre-election goodies continued to be doled out on Wednesday, with Concordia University on the receiving end of $3.25 million from the provincial government for the renovation and redevelopment of the arena on the Loyola campus.

The funding comes from the Quebec Municipalities Infrastructure Program and was given by the Minister of Municipal Affairs, Regions and Land Occupancy, Laurent Lessard.

The total cost of the project, to be shared by Concordia and the Quebec government, is $6.5 million.

The main work to be done includes building a new rink surface that is the same dimensions as those in the NHL, the replacement of the refrigeration system for a more effective one that conforms with current regulations and the development of a new dressing room and equipment storage room in the adjacent annex.

The improvements will allow the arena to accommodate a greater number of students, allow for the organization of more sporting events and allow more community use of the complex.

“Today’s announcement adds to our government’s overall effort to improve our metropolitan infrastructure,” said Kathleen Weil, minister of immigration and cultural communities and MNA for N.D.G., who represented Lessard at the announcement.

“This is an important contribution for the entire Concordia University community and for the city.”

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New Samcon project:
Muz Condos - 11 floors (150 units)
Corner René-Lévesque East and Montcalm (here)
Not far from this recently completed project
Sales office opening end of August.


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Le nouveau pavillon du Musée de la Pointe-à-Callière est assez avancé.


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Intéressant. Les ruines de l'ancien parlement sont sous cet édifice je pense? À moins que je mélange avec le Fort Ville-Marie...
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