original Forum
The Montreal Forum was the second building of that name to occupy the site. The original Forum building was built by Joseph-Alphonse Christin in 1908. A covered oval-shaped rollerskating track wrapped around an exterior ice-skating rink. The building was demolished in 1923 to make way for the Montreal Forum.
mixed-use diagram
A diagram from the Metro/Education study by Michel Lincourt and Harry Parnass (published in 1970):
to quote the bigness man…
‘Bigness is no longer a part of any urban tissue. It exists, at most, it coexists. Its subtext is fuck context’.
stadium + apartments
Herzog & de Meuron’s design for stadium and apartment megastructure in Portsmouth, England.
Bettina Funcke talks with Peter Sloterdijk in Against Gravity:
But when I highlight the apartment and the sports stadium as the most important architectural innovations of the modern, it isn’t out of art- or cultural-historical interest. Instead my aim is to give a new account of the history of atmospheres, and in my view, the apartment and the sports stadium are important primarily as atmospheric installations. They play a central role in the development of abundance, which defines the open secret of the modern.
Molson Center (1966)
Conceived during Habitat-mania, Moshe Safdie’s proposal for a recreation and entertainment center in Montreal. This was likely one of the options Molson considered when they were looking to move the Canadiens in the 1960s. Ultimately the existing Forum was renovated in 1969. How about that section?
images downloaded from the Moshe Safdie Hypermedia Archive at McGill University
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