PUBLIC MARKS with tags architecture & montréal

How do we experience food in Montreal and what does that say about us? How has food affected the development of the city, and how will it influence the city’s future?

Located in Montreal’s Plateau Mont-Royal neighborhood, the exterior of this brick house suggests nothing out of the ordinary. Inside, it features an open plan space with a three-story-high stairwell that floods the entire home with sunlight. The new extension consists of a playroom and an office in the form of two boxes of glass and wood, 264 sq. ft. each, one in the garden and one on the roof.

D’ici un an et demi, l’immeuble presque centenaire du 780, rue Saint-Rémi, dans le quartier Saint-Henri à Montréal, sera rasé pour céder la place à l’échangeur Turcot.

Graffiti, dirt, dust, leaves, snow, slush, water, weeds, bars, strip joints, corruption, factories, sex shops, stray animals, sewage, garbage, pollution, poverty, crowds, noise, and odor have all been seen as problems of cleanliness in the city.

Soap, hosted by Pecha Kucha Montréal and the CCA, explores interesting and problematic issues of cleanliness within the context of Montréal.

Gregory Chatonsky

Notes et fragments

L. McComber Architects provided a design solution for the owners of this 700 square foot loft in Montreal, Canada. They needed to create a room for a newborn baby, so a suspended platform bed made of curved douglas fir plywood and tubular steel was created.

I’ve always been intrigued by Demers Street. It’s a tiny street in the north end of the Plateau, running parallel to Villeneuve between Coloniale and Hôtel de Ville, lined mostly by cute duplexes built around 1900 to house workers from the nearby quarries.