Some interesting buildings around Montreal
Howdy!
Some of the better designed buildings I’ve come across recently. Apologies for the lack of addresses.
In Côte-des-Neiges
On Côte-des-Neiges
Downtown
Park Ex
Park Ave
McGill Ghetto
The Plateau
The Plateau
The Plateau
Downtown
Hochelaga-Maisonneuve
Ontario Street
Saint André
Saint Christophe
Terrace Saint Denis
Henri Julien
Two of your selections (not clear if they are liked) show use of the terrible white brick that was prevalent in the 1960′s: usually the province of duplexes in LaSalle and St. Leonard, some of it migrated to the centre of the city and was used on apartment houses, sometimes highrise. The material looks dirty before it is even installed, glares out between greystones and more sedate red and brown brick, and generally imparts an air of tacky mauvais goût. It also tempts the owners to use patterns and to vary the colours, as in your Plateau example. Ugh. In fairness, though, it also is distinctive of Montréal, since my travels have not uncovered any other places where white brick was used with such gusto.
Howdy!
They aren’t linked, but in small doses they can be entertaining.