MONTREAL | Le Peterson | 105 M / 344 FT | 31 FLOORS

[flight_from_kamakura]

yeah, that's straight out of the concordia ghetto or the square mile. kind of depressing, given how ambitious the initial renders made the project seem. still, with towers proposed/planned at bleury and sherbrooke, and then south of this site along pres-ken, this should be amply obstructed, leaving a nice bit of infill and adding a few hundred residents. i'll take it.

[Martin Mtl]

This is a bad design, but what do you expect from the architectural firm DCYSA, which is responsible for the 1400 De Maisonneuve, the Roc Fleury and so much more bad Montreal design.

[davidivivid]

Ouin... pas fameux!! Je me console en me disant que les nouveaux rendus de l'Icone ainsi que de l'Îlot Overdale sont beaucoup mieux que ceux initialement présentés!!

[davidivivid]

P.S. Merci à Martin de mettre ce forum à jour régulièrement.

[Martin Mtl]

Originally Posted by davidivivid

P.S. Merci à Martin de mettre ce forum à jour régulièrement.

Pas de quoi :-)

[Rico Rommheim]

This version looks like a piece of shite. Montreal continues to define the meaning of architectural mediocrity. Thank Christ for the overdale and icone. Even the roccabella is better.

Martin says that it's the same twits who are responsible for Le Roc Fleuri? You'd think these guys would evolve over the course of 10 years.

[big T]

really guys? i actually find it ok. not as bad as i thought it would turn out, even. and for once i find the height works quite well for the design (not like the godawful crystal, to pick one infamous example). certainly the roc fleury or lépine evil twins are much, much worse in my book.
it kinda makes me wish the HGI would be 20m higher, but whadayagonado. i'll take it.

[Rico Rommheim]

You know what? I'll take it too. I just won't brag about it...or aknowledge it's existence.

[flight_from_kamakura]

i mean, the adjacent hilton garden inn was one of those projects that i was so so excited about when it first broke ground. that site was sitting empty for so long that i thought maybe the city wanted it for something. then the hilton garden inn was built and now i just wist mcgill had managed to do something with it or even just some placeholder had been constructed. so we'll have a little cluster of supreme banality there between bleury and university (not sure if the depressingly insipid 801 sherbrooke belongs with the mcgill college atrocities or the bleury ones). but anyway, the peterson will follow in a fairly storied tradition of montreal desperately accepting any and all construction, regardless of design or function.

and in case this is being read anywhere where it could make a difference, i'll just add: we're not children anymore, we're not third-world anymore, we deserve nice things and we can build them. indeed, the best way forward for us is as a design center, rather than place where mafias can sink their money and blight our landscape with ugly towers and the empty lots of their failed projects.

[vanatox]

Come on!!! That tower is not that bad....seriously, the rendering is bad, thats it. I'm sure Le Peterson will be much better in person.

[Martin Mtl]

Originally Posted by vanatox

Come on!!! That tower is not that bad....seriously, the rendering is bad, thats it. I'm sure Le Peterson will be much better in person.

Let's hope you are right.

[West_aust]

Originally Posted by Martin Mtl

This is a bad design, but what do you expect from the architectural firm DCYSA, which is responsible for the 1400 De Maisonneuve, the Roc Fleury and so much more bad Montreal design.

You're forgetting their masterpiece in terms of design: Faubourg Boisbriand

[Martin Mtl]

Originally Posted by West_aust

You're forgetting their masterpiece in terms of design: Faubourg Boisbriand

Well, I said there was much much more :-)

[philtastic]

I spoke to a sales person at Le Peterson who said the building plans have been scaled down from 34 to 31 floors.

Also, this image, posted at MTLURB, of a new rendering seems to confirm that new height.

Previous renderings had Le Peterson and The Hilton Garden Inn / Le 400 at nearly the same height. Now, Le Peterson is notably shorter.



PS - I was also told by the sales person that the bottom 10 floors, with the white cladding exterior, would be double-height lofts.

[MTLskyline]

http://www.imtl.org/montreal/image.php?id=8149&im=1

[sebast13]

C'est drôle. J'adorais le premier rendu. J'ai trouvé le second désastreux. Je trouve le troisième et le quatrième acceptables.

J'en conclus que cet édifice sera probablement beau vu du sol (à son pied), mais relativement laid vu des airs.

De plus, je dirais que les matériaux feront toute la différence quant au résultat final. On dirait que les formes courbes gagneraient à être opaques (ce que suggère le rendu), mais c'est clairement du verre donc ce sera translucide. Je crois que ce ne sera pas très beau à cause de ça.

Vraiment un cas de ''wait and see''. J'espère qu'il sera beau! En tout cas, il ne laissera personne indifférent.

[Rico Rommheim]

Originally Posted by philtastic

Thanks for sharing, but this is shite. My cat could of drawn a better tower.

It doesn't have a clear goal or aesthetic, its just a cheap knock off of a current novelty.

[MTLskyline]

Ad in today's Gazette.

[philtastic]

Just heard that it's down to 28 floors, from 31. Will try and confirm.

[big T]

at 28 floors it's starting to look really stumpy. too bad.