@william has a picture of the new mural in progress on Pine Avenue at the Main, above where the newsstand used to be.The old portrait of the girl is no more (mind you, that photo was taken about 10 years ago).
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I strolled past Victoria Square tonight while a performance was going on, but what struck me more were the dozen or more police vehicles waiting a step away around Place J-P Riopelle. A young man also observing them told me he thought they were mostly there to stop the occupation from expanding into that square as well. -
ArchDaily has a nice feature with plenty of photos about the Museum of Fine Arts’ new Canadian art pavilion.
Thanks to reader Mathieu Gagnon for the link.
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Robert H
Merci Mathieu et Kate. Je m’interesse surtout aux plans des niveaux. À la difference du Museum of Fine Arts à Boston ou The Metropolitan Museum of Art à New York chacun à son îlot de verdure, l’emplacement du Musée des Beaux Arts, son immeuble originel entouré des autres bâtiments, est un example remarquable d’architecture, innovation, et design face à la limitation d’espace et la besoin de grandir. C’est vraiment un défi pour le musée; je me rappelle la controverse provoqué par le dernier grand ajout, le Pavillion Jean-Noël Desmarais. Il y avait ceux pour et contre l’inclusion de la façade du New Sherbrooke Building (moi j’etais contre…j’ai de l’influence). Cette fois au Pavillion Claire et Marc Bourgie, je crois qu’on a trouvé une meilleure façon de mélanger le nouvel et le vieux.
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Kate
Nous avons un surplus d’églises ici à Montréal. Ça fait un bon exemple quoi faire avec ces édifices.
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A memoir of being a young assistant to a mohel on Esplanade Street in the 1930s. Worth a peek just for the mohel’s business card.
In a similar theme, some video from Radio-Canada on preserving Yiddish in Montreal. (It won’t play on my computer, possibly because I won’t install Silverlight and Radio-Canada insists on using it.)
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The Toronto Sun has an Old Montreal travelogue today, with a couple of slightly ironic lapses in the information: the Royal Bank at Saint-Pierre and Saint-Jacques is not a bank for much longer, the building being turned into luxury condos as we speak, and the art collection mentioned in one of the hotels is under something of a shadow as well.
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Matthew
I think you might have your buildings mixed up, unless I’m confused. The Royal Bank at Saint-Pierre and Saint-Jacques which is soon to cease operations is on the ground floor of an office building which is remaining as such.
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Doobious
Something’s fishy here alright. The press release refers to the “building formerly known as the Royal Bank’s headquarters”, but the project is taking place at the old CIBC building a couple of blocks east on St. Jacques. I saw their Bank shingle on it the other night. Was the Royal headquartered in that building first?
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Kate
OK, you are right. The BANK urban residences project is not in the Royal Bank building, but kitty-corner across in another bank building that’s been boarded up a long time, used to be the CIBC.
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Matthew
Figured it out Kate. Not the CIBC either. The CIBC building is still on the market for sale or lease I believe. BANK is at 221 Saint-Jacques, which is between Saint-Jean and Saint-Francois-Xavier. This used to the be headquarters of the Royal Bank, but they vacated a few years back…1928. Last time the building housed a bank was in the late 70′s; it was a Banque Nationale. http://www.vieux.montreal.qc.ca/inventaire/fiches/fiche_bat.php?num=21&sec=o
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Kate
Thanks for the research!
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Doobious
Yeah, it seems I added some disinformation of my own to this thread. The CIBC building is at 265 St. Jacques, just a few doors west from the BANK project. I guess I confused them thanks to the similar architecture, even though the Commerce building is significantly grander (and its insides not gutted yet). Thanks for setting us straight, Matthew.
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A man stabbed in an incident earlier this month died on Thursday, making him the 30th homicide of the year. It’s not just me who’s counting: Openfile is putting homicides on a map.
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A demo was held Saturday against police actions that have resulted in deaths. Family members demanded Quebec change its policy of having police investigate police after such incidents.
William 06:34 on 2011/10/24 Permalink
Main and Pine: the two street signs in the mural say “Le Main” and “et les autres.” I wish my iPhone had a better camera! Thanks for the link, Kate :)
Charles 09:30 on 2011/10/24 Permalink
On the same corner, work on that abandoned building on the north west corner is advancing nicely. They did the mansardes and the roof. It’s about time.
It’s one of Montreal’s major intersection but it doesn’t look like it. If they could replace that horrible Jean Coutu building, that’d be great.
TL179 16:51 on 2011/10/24 Permalink
The girl got covered at least four years ago. There was an ongoing beef on that wall between local graff types.
Michael Litvack 12:37 on 2013/03/02 Permalink
I need a picture of the Main and Pine to act as a source for my naive style paintings
Michael Litvack 12:38 on 2013/03/02 Permalink
oh, I forgot…age, I guess…the picture should be circa 1940-mid 1950′s