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Civic Texture and Story: The Westmount Touch
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Addition: Pharmaprix
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Expansion: National Food Shops
This joining of brick and metal-siding allows pedestrians to read the building as a renovation project.
Westmount announces itself on Sherbrook with prominent storefront displays. This texture signals that the a glass door faces the street.
Rust has eaten away at this grocer’s old signage. Now with two signs - the store has outgrown its old space, taken over the adjacent building.
Health cult: The Running Room
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A giant sheet of plastic is glued over a storefront window. Its perforations allow citizens to see outside. There is a running culture here.
Glass allows sunlight into this protected jewel for plants that need to be protected.
The coarse stone reminds citizens of the perminance of the Westmount Public library and its adjacent buildings.
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Observations were taken between 2 and 5 pm on Sunday September 22nd, 2014.
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Civic Texture and Story: Condensed Variety
Lidia and Michel City Councillors and Sherbrooke
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Scan your tag to enter
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Access to this space is restricted to those who are invited.
Buzz at the door of a commerical building.
A vacant lot is characterized by its recently abandonned posters waiting to be pasted over by the next big thing in media.
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A row of old columns support the roof of a new program below it as UQAM has reappropriated the building for itself.
A house-turned-hotel proudly sits on a street corner. It front face is stone - while its side settles for brick.
A chest-high fench keeps visitors off of a private residential park facing Sherbrooke in the Plateau.
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Observations were taken between 2 and 4 pm on Tuesday September 24th, 2014.
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Civic Texture and Story: Park Art
interview: Barrett St Hubert and Sherbrooke Barrett is a professor of urbanism at UQAM. We found him in front of his residence, a 15 storey apartment, in which he has been living for 7 years. He frequently walks on Sherbrooke. He walks to his work, and for leisure his boys join him on walks to Parc Lafontaine and Atwater Market. Barrett also navigates the city by bike - he is a cycling enthusiast. Having grown up in along Sherbrooke near Pie-IX, Barrett notes that Sherbrooke has dramtically changed since he was young.
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Parc-goers make themselves confortable on layers of paint, wood, and a bolt head.
Overgrown vegetation swallows a facade.
The council for the arts hosts an indoor surface on which to gather, rest, and stretch. The carpet is soft.
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(interview continued): In particular, the division between French and English, traditionally seperated by St Laurent, has eased up lately. Barrett identifies the influx of McGill students living further and further east of the campus as a major factor in this shift. He enjoys it. Clear cut
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Bikes with bins sit on the street. It seems like people have things to carry.
The rings of a young tree read from a freshly cut stump allow pedestrians to read the construction that is underway.
A frequented shortcut has become a informal path in the grass and between the leaves.
Barrett encourages us to drop in on the city’s public consultations on Sherbrooke later this month.
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Observations were taken between 2 and 4 pm on Tuesday September 24th, 2014.
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Visual Might Eye-candy
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Sherbrooke Street offers visitors and locals a plethora of visual interests by way of its architecture, sculptures and statues, murals and artistic grafitti, landscaping, and even the colorful building materials and architectural cladding offer aesthetic value. Examples of each of these are provided here.
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3. Even bland surfaces such as asphalt can be painted, tranforming their appearnace. Driving/Parking lot entrance of the Olympic Stadium painted in the famous colors of the olympic rings.
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Sherbrooke Street is full of vibrant colors and points of visual interest. These attention-grabbers lure pedestrians to explore it.
4. Architecure and building form can be visually interesting as well as symbolic. The Schulich School of Music building ielludes to the shape and keys of a piano. 5. Landscaping and stone sculpture. Located on the corner of McGill and Sherbrooke West.
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6. Murals are found in plenty along Sherbrooke, showcasing the talent of the local artists. Victorian mural located next to the Delta Hotel. 7. Statues of famous leaders and religious saints abound in Montreal. Queen Victoria, Royal Victoria College Residence Hall.
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8. Artistic grafitti livens up what used to be a bland brick wall. Located at Decarie and Sherbrooke. 9. Sculptures are plentiful along Sherbrooke, particularly near museums and galleries. Hearts sculpture, Museum of Modern Art.
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OLFACTORY PALETTE Smell is a remnant of activities past, and a direct stimulant of memory, which highly influences perception of space. Smell of Sherbooke varies along the street, according to usage, and dynamics: preponderent gasoline smells next to large traffic corridors or the corner gas stations, the smell of grass in Parc Lafontaine, alcohol on St. Laurent at night, or the coffee and pastry smell dispersed around NDG.
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Stores on the street In the western part of sherbrooke, the abundance of stores on the sidewalk provide for a varied olfactory experience: coffee, used clothes, plastic and flowers.
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JUDY Resident : St. Laurent
Originally from Cote-Saint-Luc and Gatineau Lived in Calgary Alberta for many years before moving back this year Is currently looking to buy a condo very close to Sherbrooke Feels there is a misconception that downtown Sherbrooke is constantly busy
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“You feel excited! It’s alive! There is a balance.”
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Judy moved back to Montreal from Calgary in July of 2014. She currently lives on the corner of St. Laurent and Sherbrooke. She decided to live in the area because she wanted to be surrounded by the city. She appreciates the fact that she can walk everywhere and that everything is available to her. “People have the perception that Shebrooke is busy, but from McGill to Berri that is not the case at all. It is not noisy, and you forget that you are even in the city. I love walking down the street,” she says. She noticed that the community centres nearby have programs for seniors which she finds common in the suburbs and was surprised to find here in the heart of the city. She notices that there are many DINKS (Double Income No Kids) families with pets and that they are often quite young. She was persistent in desribing the balance she feels on the street, the fact that it is exciting and alive but at the same time reserved and quiet. She really hopes that Sherbrooke stays the way it is.
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Taste Map
Taste of the street Sherbrooke varies abruptly in tastesape (with regards to availability, accessibility, sources and consumer), according to the neighbourhood traversed.
Taste as Social Tool Restaurants- come in patterns along sherbooke: accessible ethnic restaurants and markets are highly concentrated in the west, past Decarie. Places for provision of food become meeting points, nodes in their specific communities. Montrealers from many neighbourhoods make the trip all the way to akhavan market. The sidewalk furniture allows for gathering over a coffee. More centrally, the restaurant and cafe scene bifurcates: food courts underground, higher end cafes and restaurants above ground. Many franchises remove the potential of creating the same community nodes over food. Markets exist temporally around Sherbrooke, and were found in September on McGill campus and at the Westminister end. of the street. These patterns are interrupted at times by street trucks, present all around Montreal.
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Other food nodes are St Laurent and St Denis streets. Here the denisty of bars changes the taste and smellscape. The famous ITHQ is located right next to the Sherbrooke metro station. A taste of the East: taste at this end of sherbooke-occurs in the home- the barbecues of the balconies greatly outnumber the three Delis (one of which is no longer functioning, Moe’s but still present physically). The community garden of Baldwin Parc is also a source of taste. Street trucks, present all around Montreal.
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AKHAVAN Accomodating cafes are not the only source of taste in the area: marche akhavan and esposito market are highly frequented by sherbrookers as well as outsiders. Iranian owned Marche akhavan in particular is a staple of the NDG foodscape, and a community node.
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THE TEAM
ADRIANA MOGOSANU, ARIELA LENETSKY, CRYSTAL LEE, DANNY KIM, HAGOP SARIAN, JUSTIN HUNG, KAMILLA JOLICOEUR, KATIE LEE, MANON PAQUET, NANCY NAGY-SERAGELDIN, PIERRE-ANTOINE PERNOT, ROSE DENG, ROXANNE TURMEL, SUKUONG LEE, AND TANIA PILON, TALIA DORSEY.