(Re)Discover Montreal with TourBird self-guided walking tours Travel News August 5, 2024 814 Visiting Montreal for the first time or just re-discovering what you love about the city? These self-guided walking tours allow you to explore Montreal on your own schedule and at your own pace. Each tour inclu...
Barcelona: Go for the architecture, stay for the food A.J. Twist March 10, 2024 1139 Admittedly, I am one of the last travel writers to discover Europe; so imagine my pleasure as I was first whisked down the grand avenues from the Barcelona airport to my hotel on ‘La Rambla’. I immediately call...
New Orleans could be Montreal’s “sister city” A.J. Twist March 12, 2023 1958 As a Montrealer, your first hint that there is something remarkably familiar about New Orleans is the number of fleur de lys that are ubiquitous. In fact, the city’s favourite professional sports team, the Sain...
A debt of gratitude to architect Blanche van Ginkel Guy Rex Rodgers December 20, 2022 1753 What We Choose to Remember How many Montrealers had heard of Blanche Lemco van Ginkel before the flurry of memorials published after her death in October? It is not surprising we should forget a woman who live...
See downtown Montreal in a new light with a free guided tour LiveEvents June 27, 2022 1104 Discover downtown Montreal and the underground city Guidatour invites people of Montreal and tourists alike to experience or re-experience the city’s downtown in a fun and unexpected way with the Downtown Montr...
The Design of Carpets That Design Us – until March 13, 2022 LiveEvents January 9, 2022 2179 Canadian Centre for Architecture presents The Design of Carpets That Design Us When we walk on a carpet, we rarely think of it as an object that controls space, but rather as the ultimate background; easy to...
Carlo Rinomato prepares to open a new phase of his signature Made In Italy homes in the Mont Tremblant area Peter Kerr August 6, 2020 6141 Over looking Lac Superieur and Tremblant’s North Side, Carlo Rinomato opens a new phase of his unique country homes Carlo Rinomato built his family’s drywall business in Toronto to be one of the largest in Ont...
Moshe Safdie: World Design Summit keynote speaker Peter Kerr September 25, 2017 4370 Moshe Safdie will be a keynote speaker on October 17 at the inaugural World Design Summit in Montreal, from October 16 – 25. International organizations representing design, architecture, urban planning and lan...