HomeDiagramsDatabaseMapsForum About
     

Go Back   SkyscraperPage Forum > Regional Sections > Canada


Reply

 
Thread Tools Display Modes
     
     
  #61  
Old Posted Oct 24, 2014, 8:29 PM
SignalHillHiker's Avatar
SignalHillHiker SignalHillHiker is offline
I ♣ Baby Seals
 
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Sin Jaaawnz, Newf'nland
Posts: 34,641
That's the one I've been dwelling on most. It seems like something that would be nice to do, with lighting, to shitty old post-war buildings. But as a new construction, no... it's not working. It looks like a compromise with what was already there, not something that was a concept all of its own.
__________________
Note to self: "The plural of anecdote is not evidence."
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #62  
Old Posted Oct 24, 2014, 8:44 PM
trueviking's Avatar
trueviking trueviking is offline
surely you agree with me
 
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: winnipeg
Posts: 13,435
awesome thread....one of mine....

Reply With Quote
     
     
  #63  
Old Posted Oct 24, 2014, 8:51 PM
Martin Mtl's Avatar
Martin Mtl Martin Mtl is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 8,938
UQUAM - Pavillon des sciences
Architects: Dimitri Dimakopoulos et Associés et Jodoin, Lamarre Pratte et Associés /Tétreault Parent Languedoc & Saia Barbarese Topouzanov


Source: archdaily


Source: archdaily


Source: archdaily


Source: archdaily


Source: archdaily


Source: archdaily


Source
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #64  
Old Posted Oct 24, 2014, 8:57 PM
SignalHillHiker's Avatar
SignalHillHiker SignalHillHiker is offline
I ♣ Baby Seals
 
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Sin Jaaawnz, Newf'nland
Posts: 34,641
This:

http://ad009cdnb.archdaily.net/wp-co...arc-cramer.jpg

That is PERFECTION to me. It's as good as Halifax's one with the red balconies, or that church one from, I believe, Kitchener. Mixing old and new, outside of the heritage area, of course, can be creative. It doesn't need to be a faux extension.

Reminds me of the style that Tuzla, Bosnia has embraced. It's a mostly Muslim but very passionately, proudly religiously mixed city. It is probably the only city in the entirety of the former Yugoslavia that did not elect a nationalist government, even during the war.

Anyhow, they have an old, Islamic core, and sprawling socialist commieblock suburbia. But they're filling it in with the most interesting mix.

The mosque here is old, and the old marketplace buildings around it are old, but this an ENTIRELY new public square, once the camera turns around. From about 1 minute on, all new.

Video Link


Can you imagine Canada building something like that from scratch?

Well, you should. Because it makes a beautiful way of life.
__________________
Note to self: "The plural of anecdote is not evidence."
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #65  
Old Posted Oct 24, 2014, 9:01 PM
Martin Mtl's Avatar
Martin Mtl Martin Mtl is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 8,938
Concordia University
KPMB architects


Photography: David Giral
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #66  
Old Posted Oct 24, 2014, 9:06 PM
GreaterMontréal's Avatar
GreaterMontréal GreaterMontréal is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Dec 2013
Posts: 4,575
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #67  
Old Posted Oct 24, 2014, 9:07 PM
SignalHillHiker's Avatar
SignalHillHiker SignalHillHiker is offline
I ♣ Baby Seals
 
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Sin Jaaawnz, Newf'nland
Posts: 34,641
Ungh... so tacky, but my tacky. I'm just going to live on the sidewalk outside that one if the arse comes out of our economy and I have to move back to the mainland.
__________________
Note to self: "The plural of anecdote is not evidence."
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #68  
Old Posted Oct 24, 2014, 9:08 PM
Martin Mtl's Avatar
Martin Mtl Martin Mtl is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 8,938
University of Sherbrooke, new Longueuil campus, Longueuil, Quebec
ARCHITECTS Marosi + Troy, Jodoin Lamarre Pratte, Labbé architectes en consortium


Source: Canadian Architect


Source: Canadian Architect


Source: Canadian Architect


Source: Canadian Architect


Source: Canadian Architect
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #69  
Old Posted Oct 24, 2014, 9:10 PM
SignalHillHiker's Avatar
SignalHillHiker SignalHillHiker is offline
I ♣ Baby Seals
 
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Sin Jaaawnz, Newf'nland
Posts: 34,641
I kinda like Concordia, but not Sherbrooke campuses. Which is weird because Sherbrooke, on paper, is more my style.
__________________
Note to self: "The plural of anecdote is not evidence."
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #70  
Old Posted Oct 24, 2014, 9:19 PM
Ashok Ashok is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: May 2012
Posts: 602
Social Housing done right in Montreal, though this project may not be as impressive as the others, it really is - it is world renowned.

Benny Farm in NDG, Montreal

Reply With Quote
     
     
  #71  
Old Posted Oct 24, 2014, 9:32 PM
GreaterMontréal's Avatar
GreaterMontréal GreaterMontréal is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Dec 2013
Posts: 4,575
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #72  
Old Posted Oct 24, 2014, 9:33 PM
Martin Mtl's Avatar
Martin Mtl Martin Mtl is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 8,938
Habitat 67 is not exactly what I would call a RECENT project.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #73  
Old Posted Oct 24, 2014, 9:34 PM
Rico Rommheim's Avatar
Rico Rommheim Rico Rommheim is online now
Look at me!
 
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: City of Bagels
Posts: 13,567
Quote:
Originally Posted by Martin Mtl View Post
Habitat 67 is not exactly what I would call a RECENT project.
Neither are any of the ones Ashok posted. Some of them are from the 50's
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #74  
Old Posted Oct 24, 2014, 9:38 PM
Ashok Ashok is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: May 2012
Posts: 602
^ My bad, I was just representing and got a little carried out.

ps: Not to detrail the thread, but I am not too fond of Habitat 67. I feel it may be a bit overrated.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #75  
Old Posted Oct 24, 2014, 9:41 PM
GreaterMontréal's Avatar
GreaterMontréal GreaterMontréal is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Dec 2013
Posts: 4,575
Quote:
Originally Posted by Martin Mtl View Post
Habitat 67 is not exactly what I would call a RECENT project.
there has been a lot of renovations inside. And it's recent because it's timeless. lol
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #76  
Old Posted Oct 24, 2014, 9:42 PM
Ashok Ashok is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: May 2012
Posts: 602
Résidence Jean-Placide-Desrosiers



Reply With Quote
     
     
  #77  
Old Posted Oct 24, 2014, 9:46 PM
SignalHillHiker's Avatar
SignalHillHiker SignalHillHiker is offline
I ♣ Baby Seals
 
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Sin Jaaawnz, Newf'nland
Posts: 34,641
Quote:
Originally Posted by Ashok View Post
^ My bad, I was just representing and got a little carried out.

ps: Not to detrail the thread, but I am not too fond of Habitat 67. I feel it may be a bit overrated.
Meh, it's not really rated, though. Has anyone given it a serious look beyond, hey, look what they built for the Expo.

It's an interesting building. And it's gotten more than its worth from its prestigious history. No need to worry about it.
__________________
Note to self: "The plural of anecdote is not evidence."
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #78  
Old Posted Oct 24, 2014, 9:49 PM
Ashok Ashok is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: May 2012
Posts: 602
Quote:
Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker View Post
Meh, it's not really rated, though. Has anyone given it a serious look beyond, hey, look what they built for the Expo.

It's an interesting building. And it's gotten more than its worth from its prestigious history. No need to worry about it.
Well, Habitat 67 is impressive because but it attempted to introduce a new way of urban living through modular design - but it really did not succeed at shifting market perception of pre-fab design given the stage it had to promote itself. Pre-fab still account for 5-10% of the market today in Canada.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #79  
Old Posted Oct 24, 2014, 10:10 PM
Martin Mtl's Avatar
Martin Mtl Martin Mtl is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 8,938
Quote:
Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker View Post
Meh, it's not really rated, though. Has anyone given it a serious look beyond, hey, look what they built for the Expo.

It's an interesting building. And it's gotten more than its worth from its prestigious history. No need to worry about it.
Actually it's very much rated. That's the ONE project from Montreal that you will find in any architecture history book. Seriously.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #80  
Old Posted Oct 24, 2014, 10:13 PM
SignalHillHiker's Avatar
SignalHillHiker SignalHillHiker is offline
I ♣ Baby Seals
 
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Sin Jaaawnz, Newf'nland
Posts: 34,641
Oh! I retract my point. I assumed it was just this really cool thing we all knew.
__________________
Note to self: "The plural of anecdote is not evidence."
Reply With Quote
     
     
This discussion thread continues

Use the page links to the lower-right to go to the next page for additional posts
 
 
Reply

Go Back   SkyscraperPage Forum > Regional Sections > Canada
Forum Jump


Thread Tools
Display Modes

Forum Jump


All times are GMT. The time now is 7:49 AM.

     
SkyscraperPage.com - Archive - Privacy Statement - Top

Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.7
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.