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Originally Posted by kool maudit
I have had this same fantasy! Even picked a spot in Griffintown that's probably full now.
(Got a few ideas on how to scale traditional Montreal triplex architecture up to six storeys too. But this is just Triplettes de Belleville-style thought doodling...)
We should Kickstarter something like this.
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I'm thinking it would be best to do the basements/foundations for the entire block on both sides, including water/drainage hookups. There would have to be some kind of initial engineer-approved agreement about how to treat bordering walls that touch each other.
And it would have to be brick. All brick. Save for the street-level commercial facades, which would be anything goes.
But what about heights? Should there be a limit? You'd have to be a bit sensitive to the surroundings. I think you can't really go wrong with three stories with 12-foot ceilings in North America, but maybe that that should be four or five stories?
If we really had control over a little neighbourhood, I'd want the streets to be London-sized. Maybe something like this:
https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Denmark...1c64566ffc!8m2!3d51.5153348!4d-0.1293071. But with larger sidewalks, and just one one-way lane of through traffic with a second lane of parking.
There's a whole empty square block in Hamilton next to downtown where I fantasize doing this:
https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.2580322,-...3Ze0DdX5RmPsUVAi5C2uw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656. Maybe do a diagonal street through that block, or even four triangular quadrants meeting a roundabout with fountain in the middle.
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