Le Nordelec Condos - Montreal

Saw this proposal today - and it looks fantastic

Le Nordelec is the renovation (and conversion into lofts) of an old industrial building in Ponte-Saint-Charles - 280-ish suites in all





More pictures here

http://www.flickr.com/photos/24657061@N05/sets/72157630159817078/with/8183209477/

The original building

^Indeed, it's a RenderPornStar and these new renderings are fantastic and show off the great CHBA (Cardinal Hardy Beinhaker) work--which imo is a sort of cross between aA & Core.

Stunning reuse of otherwise abandoned industrial buildings. Similar projects in Toronto, but not to this scale.

bAuHaUs said:

Stunning reuse of otherwise abandoned industrial buildings. Similar projects in Toronto, but not to this scale.

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I'm not quite sure what's new and what's old in the rendering. The facade with the ornamentation is obviously old, but what about the rectilinear wings without ornamentation? How does the heritage component compare to the scale of the converted Merchandise Building at 93,000 square metres (over 1 million square feet)?

junctionist said:

I'm not quite sure what's new and what's old in the rendering. The facade with the ornamentation is obviously old, but what about the rectilinear wings without ornamentation? How does the heritage component compare to the scale of the converted Merchandise Building at 93,000 square metres (over 1 million square feet)?

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Good call on the Merchandise building. Looks like this project covers an entire city block. It will definately fit with the whole Griffintown redevelopment project.

Montreal has way more old buildings than Toronto, for obvious reasons. I hope much of this stock continues to exist for decades to come as condos everywhere 'tis boring.

junctionist said:

I'm not quite sure what's new and what's old in the rendering. The facade with the ornamentation is obviously old, but what about the rectilinear wings without ornamentation? How does the heritage component compare to the scale of the converted Merchandise Building at 93,000 square metres (over 1 million square feet)?

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I can answer that question - I live across the street from this project, in another massive industrial conversion, The Redpath Lofts (former Redpath Sugar, which ironically relocated to Toronto.) The ration of new to old construction will be about 40/60 - the Nordelec complex is HUGE - a massive city block. The building was at one time the largest all-bring structure in North America. The 60% that is original is still used as office space, and it has a really nice authentic industrial feel inside.

With respect to the renderings - well, they are (as with most renderings) a not entirely accurate interpretation. For instance - the first image you posted makes the street front appear to be a wide, 4 lane road. In fact it's a narrow 2 lane street...The sideswalks are also made to look disproportionately large on both sides.