{"id":2594,"date":"2014-03-19T03:55:20","date_gmt":"2014-03-19T03:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benbansal.me\/?p=2594"},"modified":"2014-03-22T02:56:29","modified_gmt":"2014-03-22T02:56:29","slug":"montreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/?p=2594","title":{"rendered":"Montreal"},"content":{"rendered":"

We got back from a weekend visiting friends in Montreal yesterday.\u00a0There is a daily\u00a0Amtrak service from NYC Penn Station<\/a>\u00a0all the way to Canada. It takes a bit more than ten hours yet is surprisingly very affordable. Herewith some impressions from the short trip up north.<\/p>\n

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Looking at Elevator #2 from McGill Street<\/em><\/p>\n

Despite freezing weather (-20 Celsius on Monday morning), we were lucky on Saturday when milder temperatures allowed for a walk through the port area,\u00a0home to five at least partially\u00a0abandoned grain silos<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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We walked along here, braving snow and ice, while en route to Habitat 67, more on which later. Le Corbusier liked these grain silos<\/a>, for him the first expression of purely utilitarian architecture:<\/p>\n

Thus we have the American grain elevators and factories, the magnificent\u00a0first-fruits of the new age.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The sixties and seventies saw Montreal harbouring large ambitions, with the Expo 67 and the 1976 Summer Olympics taking place here. Almost two decades later, not much confidence was left<\/a>, however.<\/p>\n

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In the city centre, above, one finds the Delta Centre-Ville, built in 1976. It closed its doors last year and is currently being transformed into student accommodation.<\/p>\n

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The 1967 Place Bonaventure<\/a> was the second-largest commercial building at the time of its opening. From here, one can enter Montreal’s underground city<\/a>, a handy thing given the city’s brutal winters.<\/p>\n

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The Mont Royal metro station<\/p>\n

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And lastly, the 2005 McGill University Music Faculty<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We got back from a weekend visiting friends in Montreal yesterday.\u00a0There is a daily\u00a0Amtrak service from NYC Penn Station\u00a0all the way to Canada. It takes a bit more than ten hours yet is surprisingly very affordable. Herewith some impressions from … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,29,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-canada","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2594"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2615,"href":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2594\/revisions\/2615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}