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Ten years ago, Gale was a builder and flipper of office parks who would eventually become known for knocking down the Boston landmark Filene’s Basement and replacing it with a hole in the ground. But Gale’s fate began to change in 2001 with a phone call from South Korea. The Korean […]

Take one slightly over priced, OLED enabled, industrial designed keyboard by Art Lebedev.  (aka Optimus Maximus)

And juice it.   Voila, traffic light perfection.  Round be gone.  All the extra real estate available to meet any traffic planners wish list.

 Art Lebedev’s home.

While I completely understand local resident’s desire to have a better say in the redevelopment of the Turcot exchange, there can be no doubt that this mass of gorgeous concrete is at the end of it’s useful life.
With giant holes appearing, overloaded trucks banned and a permanent state of panic laden repairs taking place, we […]

-Jean-Sebastien Peron - SEPAQ
I’m not a beach fan, but the little guy loves the sand…what’s a father to do?  Here are a few local beaches to visit.  I have to admit, Oka beach intrigues me and it has nothing to do with the possibility of seeing nudists in ‘action’.   Sucks that we live on an […]

After the absurd use of water tankers dumping millions of litres (of potable water?) onto our parched asphalt as a form of cleansing, this pales in comparison.  Yet it still requires a look.
Poorly designed, poorly placed, poorly timed.  Just poor.   Or better yet…pour.

-30C and windy, these plants were probably still thirsty after today’s wastage.

Limited […]

Found this great article where I never would have thought to look. A Daily Kos diary. Go figure.
Suburban living embodies the compartmentalized, modernist understanding of man and nature. When we consider a suburban dwelling, we often see it in isolation from its social, physical, and environmental surroundings.

Urban living cannot be understood without seeing […]

The city created this crosswalk last fall on the corner of Atwater and St-Antoine.  It is by far the coolest crosswalk I’ve seen to date.  I didn’t witness the process, but it from I can tell the asphalt has been ground down in the cobblestone pattern shown to a depth of around 5mm then the […]

Norman better be sporting some protective headgear when he eventually returns to a redesigned square next year.  These pigeons are anxiously awaiting his home-coming.

There is much more to synchronizing traffic lights then getting cars to move faster through our road networks.   Montreal is in the (much overdue) process of rolling out a synched core with a projected completion of Q4 2008.
The impact isn’t trivial. Even changing the delay of lights by a few seconds could reduce road […]

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Question 7
Do you believe that large gatherings at the top of the mountain should be:
-Banned
-Structured
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