I've been reading a fair bit about Montreal's subways lately. They must have a new p.r. hack.
That said, I'd really like to see some of those stations. Looks like some interesting work - and function in design IS interesting.
I like the basic problem, a long box, a certain amount of things that have to go in it... now do you make it an interesting space and not just interesting for, say, a month, and have it function well for pedestrian flow, etc.
On articles on Canadian cities, archnewsnow often shows articles from the Toronto Star, but that's a site you have to register to see and many don't like to.
I promised to try to warn people when they have to register, back in my first post here, but the problem is, that in order to read some things I've registered at a few myself and don't have to again, and I haven't kept track of those. Great articles come up in the Chicago Tribune, but they want to know all sorts of info, and I shy away from that. Most that require registering only want to put a wee cookie on your computer and I don't mind that myself.
Christopher Hume, with the Toronto Star, often writes interesting pieces. I've gone to look at a few buildings based on his comments/reviews.
Lots going on, design-wise, here.
Yeh, I remember the name. Maybe I'll start including some links for that. Or you add them, if you see pieces you like.
I also realized recently that in all my swooning over New York City - Toronto is a dang fine looking city - so I've started taking photos of buildings/street art etc here.
Ohhhhhh, good, I want to see them sometime.
I've made a promise to myself to get some of that sorted and online in the weeks between dog camp and returning to New York.
I managed to download about 350 last weekend, but got no further.
There are, I think, some really interesting photos of midway art in that download as well as streetscapes, design features, wall art.
Salivating...
Well, here I'm nagging you but I haven't put my own photos of places up.
DOG CAMP? I think I've heard it all, now. Am I supposed to jump on the band wagon and send my cats to camp?
Skimmed over the article, osso. Horrible developement, but I supposed we are not destined to learn from experience.
Roger - I just KNOW you're dying to learn more about
this. hehehehehehe
Cat camp? Isn't that oxymoronic?
Yeh, Roger, that is approximately what the editor of archnewsnow said as an intro, something like "can't we ever learn?"
It's an odd situation, all around. About a decade ago they fined a farmer for using tires to slow erosion in some ditches. It was an EPA thing. At about the same time, they experimented with dumping tires in Wyoming, and sure enough, impoverished beavers with not trees build dams out of tires. Now, they're permitting real wetlands to be developed.
I suppose it's only natural the Army Corps of Engineers would go one way, and the EPA another.
I was slow to learn about ecology as it wasn't a subject when I was in college, at least that I had heard of, though it exploded as a subject shortly thereafter, I was, er, busy.
But since I have opened my eyes, I think people have been trying to curb rampant erosion. So that farmers with tires example seems... stupid.
It's a continuing problem. A law is passed with good intent, and turned over to a regulatory agency for implementation. Like good little bureaucrats, they start churning out regulations. Common sense is optional, and once written, regulations must be enforced even handedly. Pretty soon, ecology and environmentalism have a bad name
Yes, when it, by nature, only makes common sense.
Well, more on birds and bats and cats and wind turbines,
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