MONTREAL | Evolo 1 | ~100M | 31 FLOORS

[Alexcaban]

http://pointenord.com/evolo/home/

[Alexcaban]

October 27

[Rico Rommheim]

Love the interiors, more so than the cladding. This is still a nice tower though, worthy of being placed downtown!

[shakman]

Is this tower in Broussard?

[Rico Rommheim]

Nope, it's actually on nun's island.

[Dylan Leblanc]

It's at the northern tio of Ile de Soeurs, right here - http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/map...64264&z=16&t=k

[Dylan Leblanc]

http://pointenord.com/evolo/home/

[shakman]

Thanks to all for the clarification.

[Vaillant]

La vue du Évolo en construction est très bonne du westmount square!

the view of the construction is amazing from westmount square I'll take a photo next time

[Stu]

It's actually... decent. Will this be the tallest on Ile de Soeurs?

[Rico Rommheim]

The current tallest on the island is a 30 floor condo right now, do these just might equalize or take the edge.


By the way which floor are they at now?

[vanatox]

Evolo 1 is the building in the background and is the one under construction. The white and blue tower is currently on sale and is called Evolo 2. On this part of the island, 4 to 5 30 floors-ish towers are planned, as well as many other shorter condo buildings with shops and restaurants included at street level. Townhouses are also planned. You can see some of them behind the white tower.

[ozzy]

c'est bien de voir la densité et la hauteur que peut prendre l'ile des soeur. j'ai toujours aimé. Toutefois je regrette beaucoup le no mans land résidentiel qu'il est devenu. le maque de mixité résidentiel et commercial est désolant. Mais bon, ça fait une bonne porte d'entrée pour Montréal vu du sud.

[pointenord]

Indeed, these buildings are on Nuns' Island. They are part of a new neighbourhood called Pointe Nord, which is a mixed-use development, with charming commercial and waterfront parks and paths. It is more urban than anything Nuns' Island has seen before.

[isaidso]

I realize that the sterile glass box is everywhere these days, but had hoped Montreal would be spared. I guess the days of grand Montreal buildings is over.

[Vaillant]

Originally Posted by isaidso

I realize that the sterile glass box is everywhere these days, but had hoped Montreal would be spared. I guess the days of grand Montreal buildings is over.

It's not that bad for nun's island.. it refreshing for Montreal we are tired of concrete buildings

[MTLskyline]

Originally Posted by isaidso

I realize that the sterile glass box is everywhere these days, but had hoped Montreal would be spared. I guess the days of grand Montreal buildings is over.

Montreal really has no sterile glass boxes at the moment. I don't think one or two in a suburban-ish area is going to harm the city too much. I would agree with you, however, if there already were already a lot of this type of building, especially downtown.

That said, I think the days of grand Montreal buildings have been over since the 1960s. What has been built since then, for the most part, is nothing to write home about (with a few exceptions).

[MolsonExport]

Wouldn't it be wonderful albeit fantastical if Montreal instead mainly built old-style masonary buildings (inspired by those constructed during the 1900s-1940s)? What a grand city that would be!

[Rico Rommheim]

I for one think Montreal needs more glass condos! As of now, downtown Montreal had none! Hell, I'll take a good dozen of vancouver's towers. No problem.

[Lyle]

There's a reason Montreal doesn't build Vancouver-style glass towers: they are expensive as hell to heat and wouldn't resist our climate. They can't even resist Toronto's milder climes.

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