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Originally Posted by Rico Rommheim
Very well said, HOWEVER, you hate PVM...but love Louis Boheme? That building is one of the ugliest high rises I've seen with my own eyes. It belongs in the Concordia Ghetto, not place des festivals. Pre-fab, monolithic black concrete? No thanks.
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i don't agree. louis-boheme works perfectly at street level, even mayor street. beautiful profile at all three streetside elevations, massing that i find elegant (i really dislike the podium/point type tower that dominates further down maisonneuve, for instance). and the finishings are great too, with excellent and non-montreal fenestration and colors. not to mention the incorporation of the metro station, which i think was beautifully done. now contrast all those positive aspects with virtually any residential tower built in the city in the post war era (not counting conversions, obviously). even including the nice scale around the monument national - which i believe was built to hotel - we don't have anything so well achieved.
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Originally Posted by montréaliste
Linteau is the most famous Montreal historian alive!
What? Did somebody just kill the other ones?
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for professional, academic historians of the city of montreal, there's really only linteau and marsan in the same league, the deans of the field. and since linteau is a far more complete historian - a full scale social historian - i'd definitely rate him above marsan. that said, impossible that i could have come away from a marsan seminar with the erroneous impression that the priority of the mount wasn't the basis of mtl's maximal height limits, and just an urban legend.