Howdy!
I don’t know who designed all of these, but I certainly am in awe of either the drugs they took or how they were able to make something so mundane so cool. Apologies in advance, I didn’t write down any addresses.
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Why three semi-circles?
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Dead-on-balls-accurate art deco with a capital a.
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Some sort of gliders perhaps? And if they’re curved, why so angular?
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This one is just kind of graceful.
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Telescoping tunnel effect through the vegetation in Westmount.
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A more refined and demure glider effect.
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This one was just so awesome I had to take its picture twice.
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What’s up with the plexiglass bubble?
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This is just so cute I want to go up and hug it.
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I think whoever designed it couldn’t make up their mind, and decided to try both styles at the same time.
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Man the way those arches punch through the awning reminds me of some kind of alien space ship or something.
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This one I don’t understand. Saw-tooth?
![Cool Montreal Apartment Building Entrance Cool Montreal Apartment Building Entrance](https://i0.wp.com/zeke.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/20120514-005-2-560x372.jpg?resize=474%2C315)
Another tiny and cute entrance.
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A less threatening saw-tooth.
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All fine and dandy until you realize that it is on a 45 degree angle to the street.
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Mirror, mirror. Did the architect only get paid half of what they thought the project was worth?
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A truncated glider awning, in brown.
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These next three apartment buildings all are the same on paper, but someone had fun dressing them up so that they look different.
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The second
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And the third.
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Where, why and how they figured out this one I have no idea.
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You’d figure that the lights would be all lined up properly instead of following the ceiling line.
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A two-step awning with two pillars.
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A different two-step awning.
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Anticipating the style in hat brims by some 40 or 50 years.
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A nice sloping dome effect.
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Two-step awning.
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A rare reverse curve.
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OK, maybe not so rare.
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Bet you dollars to doughnuts this was built in 1967.
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Make me think of the hand motions of a very excited eight year-old girl.
OMG! Photo #9! 175 Sherbrooke East! I had a practitioner teaching criminal procedure at McGill many years ago who told us that this building had, for some reason, provided him with more clients than any other in town.
I wonder what is going on beyond the awning?!