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I don't understand how it's 'failed' - it is an iconic building. I wish I was able to afford to live there.
by betaby 6y ago
I don't understand how it's 'failed' - it is an iconic building. I wish I was able to afford to live there.
- caiob 6y agoThat building represents everything that went wrong with the brutalism architectural movement in the 60s/70s. It's such an eye sore on Nun's island.
- throwaway2245 6y agoThat's exactly how it has failed. One purpose was to illustrate that you could build affordable and liveable urban apartment buildings in high number and high quality. You reporting 50 years later that you wish you could live there (I would also love to), illustrates that this didn't happen.
- betaby 6y agoWe can say the same about nearby 'vanilla' condo buildings https://goo.gl/maps/7qm79E799kUKUCPFA https://goo.gl/maps/7qm79E799kUKUCPFA Old port is just prohibitively expensive in general.
- nmeofthestate 6y agoI think the point is there'd be places like this in more affordable non-sought-after locations, had the vision been a success.
- folkrav 6y agoThe area is just expensive as hell, final. Some of these cubes are horribly dated, but just the fact it's in the Old Port makes the price shoot way up.
- andromeduck 6y agoThats more to do with zoning and permitting.
- freeone3000 6y agoI mean, you can say that, but, it's all mixed-use highrises around there. There are new thirty-story buildings going up all the time. I don't think there's much more that could be done policy-wise, it's just a desirable area -- and there's condos half the price ten minutes away by metro.
- not_math 6y agoIt's a failed dream. We don't see more building designed like that in Montreal, just more skyscraper so we can be more like Toronto or New York.
- betaby 6y agoNot a bad thing, Montreal is literally an island and there are plenty of places with ugly moldy and unsafe *plexes wish were demolished and rebuilt like this https://goo.gl/maps/unYizR5WCsLT3QhK7 https://goo.gl/maps/unYizR5WCsLT3QhK7 for example, if you remember how it looked before.
- shellac 6y agoIt's a quote (hence the ''). If you read the article you'll see it comes from https://thewalrus.ca/for-everyone-a-garden/ https://thewalrus.ca/for-everyone-a-garden/, which (as others have said) says it 'failed' to be housing for everyone.
- GizmoSwan 6y agoHad they built more of the,, it may have taken off. It had demonstrated the possibilities. Maybe it was ahead of its time. The choice that other people make does not make the idea worthless or a failure.