August 2016

The City of Montreal

"[Montreal is] not what's inside, but what's on the outside" (Fodor's Guide to Montreal and Quebec City)

Architecture etc.


On top of a highway (autoroute Ville-Marie, aka 720): ISME'16 meeting venue


Habitat 67 apartment complex


Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours Chapel, Vieux Montreal


Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours Chapel (back view), Vieux Montreal


Basilique Notre-Dame-de-Montreal (1829)


Pointe-a-Calliere (Montreal Museum of Archaeology and History): built on top of the archaeological dig.


Hotel de Ville (Montreal turns 375 in 2017)


Hotel de Ville at night. The city hall (1878) is modeled after the one in Tours, France


Juxtaposition of old and new


Juxtaposition of old and new II


Juxtaposition of old and new III


A 1967 gift from the city of Paris (Victoria Square). The work is by Hector Guimard.


Reflections I


Reflections II


Reflections III


Le Rhinoceros Boutique [URL]








In the Quartier des Spectacles


In the Quartier des Spectacles II


In the Quartier des Spectacles III


Sunset from my hotel window

One Hundred Views of Tour de l'Horloge


Cloudy Morning over St. Lawrence River (Jacques Cartier Bridge)


Forever Love


Train transit in the Vieux Port


"The Clock Tower, a link between the port, the river and the city"...


...and a tribute to WWI sailors


The story of Suzanne
("Lulled by the sound of the river's currents, a man and a woman meet at the crossroads of two different realities.")
[Cite Memoire]







From the inside the Tower


Inside the Clock


Plage de l'Horloge (Clock Tower Beach)


Pont Jacques-Cartier


Wash Me

Vieux Port


The only "remnant" of Ville-Marie wall, Champ-de-Mars


Juxtaposition of old and new


Juxtaposition of old and new II


Used to be Balder?


Marina in the morning light


Abandoned Grain Elevator #5


Night Shopping


Night Shopping II


Marina in the morning light II








The Face of Montreal
[Cite Memoire]

Art on the streets

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Hommage a Marguerite Bourgeoys, a pioneer woman and an educator. Place Marguerite-Bourgeoys





Les Chuchoteuses by Rose-Aimee Belanger


Jean Drapeau by Annick Bourgeau


Carbone by Coache Lacaille Paysagistes


Mr. James McGill


1.26 by Janet Echelman, Place Emilie-Gamelin, Quartier des Spectacles.
[Read About The Installation]


After Babel, a Civic Square by Marlene Hilton-Moore and John McEwen (detail)
[Read About It]


The Illuminated Crowd by Raymond Mason


Affiche


Metro Entrance





Monument a la reine Victoria by Marshall Wood (1869), Victoria Square


A mural by Jason Wasserman

Misc.


Plage de l'Horloge II


Equivalents


Geese in a Row


Old Piano on the street


Old piano (detail)


Stuffed Animals by Claude Cormier (3000 animals involved)

Abstract Painting with Light


Reflection of Light


Shopping


The Molson Brewery I


The Molson Brewery II