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Title: Quebec Old City fire
Post by: Sportsdude on Apr 05 08 11:27
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Title: Re: Quebec Old City fire
Post by: Michel on Apr 05 08 11:45
     
Title: Re: Quebec Old City fire
Post by: Gopher on Apr 05 08 11:50
How do you juudge Louis Riel, Michel?
Title: Re: Quebec Old City fire
Post by: P.C. on Apr 05 08 11:59
That is heartbreaking.  What a gorgeous piece of architecture !!!!

  add*  In a warped kind of way, the first pic of it ablaze is oddly beautiful.  
Title: Re: Quebec Old City fire
Post by: Gopher on Apr 05 08 12:03
Yes. For some reason it makes me think of the fire at Thornfield Hall in Jane Eyre  
Title: Re: Quebec Old City fire
Post by: P.C. on Apr 05 08 12:07
So sad to see buildings like that disappear.  The new architecture....although some of it is lovely in its own right....just totally lacks in craftsmanship, charm and style like these.
Title: Re: Quebec Old City fire
Post by: Gopher on Apr 05 08 12:09
Oh I agree so much with you, PC.  Functional seems to be all nowadays ; another instance of the poetic being submerged beneath the prosiac.  
Title: Re: Quebec Old City fire
Post by: Sportsdude on Apr 05 08 12:15
 well that's post-modernism for yeah. bland and boring. I don't know if we'll see another 'revival' period.

add: on some university campuses that were built in 'gothic' style. Any new building is built in the same style. So gothic does live on, albeit, barely.
 
Title: Re: Quebec Old City fire
Post by: Michel on Apr 05 08 12:19
     
Title: Re: Quebec Old City fire
Post by: Michel on Apr 05 08 12:49
     
Title: Re: Quebec Old City fire
Post by: Lil Me on Apr 05 08 12:53
What about Maurice Duplessis, Maurice Richard, Corey Hart? lol  
Title: Re: Quebec Old City fire
Post by: Michel on Apr 05 08 01:01
     
Title: Re: Quebec Old City fire
Post by: Lil Me on Apr 05 08 01:38
Better not say that. The secret police will take away your Maple Tree Licence.    
Title: Re: Quebec Old City fire
Post by: Sportsdude on Apr 05 08 01:47
as long as the rcmp knocking with tasers...  
Title: Re: Quebec Old City fire
Post by: Gopher on Apr 06 08 10:51
I agree with you entirely about Riel and Dumont, Michel.
Title: Re: Quebec Old City fire
Post by: Michel on Apr 06 08 11:02
   
Title: Re: Quebec Old City fire
Post by: Lil Me on Apr 06 08 12:00
I hope M. Bonhomme de Neige didn't melt in the big fire.
Title: Re: Quebec Old City fire
Post by: Michel on Apr 06 08 12:09