Tour Lucerne | ?m | 20f | Proposed

harls · #1 Posted **Sep 5, 2012, 12:23 PM**

20 (?) storey proposal from Brigil, near Champlain Bridge on boul. Lucerne.

Website :
http://www.brigil.com/en/emplacements/tour_lucerne.asp

Aylmer · #2 Posted **Sep 5, 2012, 12:53 PM**

All very nice, but THERE'S NOTHING THERE! How can the city pretend to want to move away from the automobile and still allow developers to build towers in the middle of blooming nowhere? Argh!

spotlight · #3 Posted **Sep 5, 2012, 1:38 PM**

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Originally Posted by Aylmer

All very nice, but THERE'S NOTHING THERE! How can the city pretend to want to move away from the automobile and still allow developers to build towers in the middle of blooming nowhere? Argh!

well to say that there's nothing there is a bit much.. don't get me wrong i'm a pro intensification pro rapid transit kind of guy.. but this proposal is not even 5 minutes from champlain bridge and next to a golf course, a hotel and 5 minutes away from 2 shopping areas not to mention 10 minutes away from westboro.. yes all of those minutes away are by car or bus instead of walking or subway or lrt.. but like it or not the car is here to stay and we have to add a few projects like these in addition to other intensification projects.

I at the very least hope that this project along with others along Lucerne will force the city to widen this 2 lane road to a proper 4 lane street (yes i know another project aimed at helping car owners) but it is needed especially to be able to add proper bus routes on this street and proper separate double turning lanes onto the bridge.. anyone living close to this area and taking champlain bridge in the morning can see the ridiculousness that is the traffic on Lucerne coming from the west side.

also the design style is rather interesting although i would prefer brigil used an architect that wouldn't put the exact same exterior colour palette to every design they make .. i don't want this to be a pink brick, blue glass monstrosity.

kevinbottawa · #4 Posted **Sep 5, 2012, 2:05 PM**

This would make a nice hotel or office building. Not sure about a condo.

S-Man · #5 Posted **Sep 5, 2012, 3:44 PM**

Well, it's Quebec. What if those 2 buildings want to separate?

J.OT13 · #6 Posted **Sep 5, 2012, 8:31 PM**

Quebec is 20 years behind; hence the Rapibus and bad urban planning principles.

And if you argue the Montreal Metro, it opened 12 years after TO's, even though MTL was the bigger city and financial centre at the time.

harls · #7 Posted **Sep 5, 2012, 9:06 PM**

To be fair, it's the same group that designed the four towers at Petrie's Landing in Orleans.

It looks like a gigantic lobster claw when viewed from above.

harls · #8 Posted **Sep 5, 2012, 9:08 PM**

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Originally Posted by Aylmer

All very nice, but THERE'S NOTHING THERE! How can the city pretend to want to move away from the automobile and still allow developers to build towers in the middle of blooming nowhere? Argh!

If only there was a rail line along Lucerne or something, that would be great! Oh yeah... there was..

Harley613 · #9 Posted **Sep 5, 2012, 9:18 PM**

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Originally Posted by S-Man

Well, it's Quebec. What if those 2 buildings want to separate?

HAHAHA. good one. very apt timing.

I think this looks absolutely amazing, better than anything u/c or proposed in Ottawa.

gatt · #10 Posted **Sep 11, 2012, 4:12 PM**

i like it.

J.OT13 · #11 Posted **Sep 11, 2012, 4:43 PM**

Cool for Gatineau, glad it's not in OT.

McC · #12 Posted **Sep 11, 2012, 4:54 PM**

except for the colours of the masonry and glass, it looks to me like the more ambitious Delta hotels from the '70s (the one on University in MTL, Quebec City, etc.).

J.OT13 · #13 Posted **Sep 11, 2012, 5:13 PM**

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Originally Posted by McC

except for the colours of the masonry and glass, it looks to me like the more ambitious Delta hotels from the '70s (the one on University in MTL, Quebec City, etc.).

I didn't even notice that. It's like Delta MTL's bastard child.

On a unrelated note, it's too bad Delta abandonned the old location since it really spoke to Delta's classic look and brand like the one in MTL adn Quebec City.

Acajack · #14 Posted **Sep 11, 2012, 6:35 PM**

Who wrote the English on Brigil's website? It's my second language and I am not perfect at it but geez I could have done a better job than whoever did that translation.

J.OT13 · #15 Posted **Sep 11, 2012, 6:44 PM**

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Originally Posted by Acajack

Who wrote the English on Brigil's website? It's my second language and I am not perfect at it but geez I could have done a better job than whoever did that translation.

But yet the guy on Brigil's English commercials can't pronounce French words correctly.

McC · #16 Posted **Sep 11, 2012, 7:02 PM**

like the villain in Bon Cop Bad Cop who speaks each language with the other accent?

J.OT13 · #17 Posted **Sep 11, 2012, 9:40 PM**

Or Jean Chrétien.

S-Man · #18 Posted **Sep 11, 2012, 10:20 PM**

Question: if the PQ passes their fascist and unbelievable short-sighted language laws, will the english disappear from all business websites in Quebec?

J.OT13 · #19 Posted **Sep 11, 2012, 10:55 PM**

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Originally Posted by S-Man

Question: if the PQ passes their fascist and unbelievable short-sighted language laws, will the english disappear from all business websites in Quebec?

Don't think they have control of websites, but they will lose business.

Ottawan · #20 Posted **Sep 11, 2012, 11:28 PM**

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Originally Posted by McC

like the villain in Bon Cop Bad Cop who speaks each language with the other accent?

What a great movie! I don't think people outside of Eastern Ontario and Western Quebec can appreciate it fully (maybe some Montrealers), but it's awesome. I need to see it again.