“The average family eats 180 hot-dogs a year.”
ad companies seem to be getting more and more creative with their ads lately, though the scented ones seem to have backfired. those against ads have are also putting up a good fight as well.
top: photos of construction progress (taken April 2006) on the Cartier Metro Station, the new Laval extension of the orange line. The stations are to be completed in July of this year. Designed by architect Richard Fortin.
bottom: plans, sections, and rendering of the project
From the other side, the building face is propped up to give the streetscape coherence. Just another example of the many abandoned lots in Montreal — this time near Chinatown on St-Laurent Street.
Compare this scene with the ruins of St. Paul’s in Macau, with only a single face left standing after a typhoon caused a vicious fire.
the interiors are dated: they remind me of my elementary school
the structure of the convention hall reminds me of richard rogers‘ use of structure, columns, to define the large spaces of his barajas airport in madrid.
photo from the vivid perspective
St-Catherine Street between Atwater and Guy is a scene of urban blight: boarded up buildings, garbage strewn everywhere, closed businesses. There are few people walking in this stretch, and if there are, they walk with hurried steps, avoiding the panhandlers (I counted 5) who live on the sidewalks. It is surprising then that just one block away is the bustling Pepsi Forum with 22 movie theatres and Place Alexis Nihon, an indoor shopping centre filled with people.
The new du parc /pine interchange is breathtaking. There are views up park street to the mountain, green space all around, and open land with ample sunlight. The entire neighbourhood is now bright and open, transparent and feels alive.
On a cold, windy day in January, myself and the few of my classmates still eager (or I could say crazy) enough to make the trek out to see Frank Gehry’s new IAC headquarters went and toured the outside of the building. I found the building surprisingly serene and calm. The New York Times suggests it is “the work of an aging virtuoso rather than the brash innovation of a rowdy outsider”. It is not a Guggenheim Bilbao or even the recent Stata Center.
When asked about why he used the curved forms and titanium cladding in his Bilbao Museum, Gehry spoke about how he wanted to capture the billowing cloth sails and their movement in the wind. The IAC tower does just that, but it also reminds me of a lantern overlooking the water. Some photos:
I attended what was called “talkabout 10″ yesterday and heard Paul Martin, former Canada finance minister, speak on the topic of Africa and the continent’s economic development. His overarching view was that for Africa to succeed in the 21st century, its 52 countries would need stronger economic (and perhaps political) union, through the African Union.
It is infuriating that the leader of a political party fighting in the interests of an ethnic group (the Quebecois), can remain unapologetic for throwing about sensitive racial slurs. The Parti Quebecois has never ceased to amaze me — that in a country that is built on diversity and acceptance, a party with such a narrow outlook can even be tolerated.
I walked into the middle of a conversation (more like an argument) between my friends tonight — about how non-gendered persons, if that term is considered politically correct, feel marginalized in our society that places such a distinction between male and female.
The issues seem bewildering at first - do we need to establish a third kind of washroom that has an androgynous figure on it? Should we adopt the linguistic conventions of, say, Chinese, which doesn’t specify gender in its speech? How far must we as a society go in order to uphold minority rights?
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