451 rue Saint Pierre, Montréal : 無料・フリー素材/写真
451 rue Saint Pierre, Montréal / Robert Cutts
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| 説明 | Rue Saint Pierre runs parallel with Rue McGill and the most of its length is quite narrow. Number 451 was built in 1865-1866 to the design of Cyrus Pole Thomas and his son, William Tutin Thomas. They were responsible for quite a number of buildings in Montréal. In his book, Montreal in Evolution, Jean-Claude Marsan is scathing about this building and the British Empire Building, another of those that I photographed. On page 241 he writes:"The streets of the old town are littered with nineteenth-century commercial buildings whose facades are an orgy of decoration, the unfortunate result of various blends of styles, predominantly Italian. In such instances, structural considerations as well as climatic conditions have been ignored: only the picturesqueness of the "attire" matters. Three contiguous buildings located at 38-60 Notre-Dame Street West provide a good example of this often heavily pretentious type; another is on the southwest corner of Notre-Dame and Saint-Francois-Xavier Streets, appropriately named the British Empire Building. "Other structures display extremely superficial textures. Many a Montrealer must have been struck by the look of the facade of a building located at 157 Saint-Paul Street West, across from John Osten's serious Customs House; it is covered with faked rustic stones whose motifs change with every floor. However, when it comes to decorative extravaganza, the building located at 451-57 on Saint-Pierre Street is unsurpassed. Its overloaded facade defies description: it may rival that of the most exalted Venetian palace". (my italics). |
| 撮影日 | 2015-06-05 14:37:15 |
| 撮影者 | Robert Cutts , Bristol, England, UK |
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