Cool to see Charlottetown and Rimouski getting new "highrises"! Yeah!
As for Montreal, the hotel St-Martin is without a doubt one of the ugliest buildings in downtown right now. Replaced one monstrosity with another. Its too short, too ugly, too central and ruins a perfectly opportune piece of land. Its like building a McMansion in the middle of manhattan. It shouldn't be allowed. God damn it. Fake wood? Please give me a break! Bleh.
Meanwhile the kids at mtlurb.com are going crazy over any construction that exceeds 8 floors. We're building subpar 10 floor condos on Rene-Levesque. The current design for the Waldorf=Astoria is so terrible even a hamiltonian would raise an eyebrow. I am really disappointed with the height AND quality of our new constructions. I'm coming back from Vancouver in a couple weeks, I can only imagine I will be even more disappointed after that.
It realize I sound very negative, but I am totally justified to be so pessimistic. We are going nowhere fast. Things must change!
Pauvre Montreal!
Meanwhile I'm very scited about Altitude Montreal, though still disappointed with the height. a 3 year wait for a 33 floor building is a long wait. BUT i beelieve its the "nicest" looking highrise construction we've had since 1992.