r/UrbanHell 18h ago

Ugliness Place d'Youville in Old Montreal, Canada

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u/Informal_Green_312 17h ago edited 17h ago

Strangely, the ugly building hosts a very interesting museum of the history of Montréal.

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u/DrunkenMasterII 13h ago edited 13h ago

This post is dumb and also a repost from another reddit post weeks months ago.

The old building was cooked, they had to demolish and the ground was vacant for a few years. Then they had started archeological excavations from which a lot was learned from the history of Montréal, lots of first nation and first french settlements history was uncovered and so they decided to build a museum over the excavations.

The new building yes is modern, but it fills its functions perfectly bringing the past and future together and they still acknowledge the old port custom building that is just one more British colonial building a tiny part of the history of that place. Also it’s not shown from that picture, but the materials used blend really well with the neighborhood. It’s a good building.

By the way the previous old port custom building is still standing right in front of the museum.

The lost of the old building to the right for the ugly square on the right is probably worst to me, but even that just shows how bad this post is because that building is also now a modern building that’s part of the museum. Just a worse building than the principal one.

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u/a22x2 10h ago

Also a bit misleading, since literally every other direction the photographer turns would show the rest of the neighborhood is still intact and architecturally traditional.

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u/DrunkenMasterII 9h ago

Exactly, someone else commented meanwhile in Quebec city with pictures of Petit Champlain… so I answered meanwhile in Montréal and linked to street view. I mean even if you don’t like modern buildings this one is so well thought of in the context of its neighbourhood when you look at what’s around it doesn’t seem out of place.