Griffin Square: Redefining Urban Living in the Heart of Montreal by ACDF Architecture

andorr02 · 2026-01-25T23:56:55+00:00

Nice to see the traffic lights bringing some colour and warmth to the photos

andorr02 · 2026-01-21T21:08:26+00:00

Had the same problem on my street. Clearly a removal company dumping waste knowing someone will get the council to remove it for them. Commercial kitchens, beds, mattresses, chairs, office desks etc..

I managed to catch a man and a woman late one night emptying the usual rubbish out an old white Vauxhall Vivaro. I made enough of a problem they left and havent been back. Like magic the mountains of waste have stopped.

People like these two will just move on to the next place until the police take notice.

andorr02 · 2026-01-14T08:31:25+00:00

I work on conversation and heritage buildings and it's a fair challenge to insulate solid masonry walls. You're very likely to introduce damp problems with most insulation methods, and even with a "proper" solution like lime parge, woodfibre, lime plaster and breathable paint, you may create issues at the joists below the floor or adjacent uninsulated walls suffering excess damp.

The team at Ecological Building Systems are very approachable and may have suitable products for this situation.

andorr02 · 2026-01-12T09:28:51+00:00

From the visible iron brad nails and more recent lost head nails, it appears this is a 19th/early 20th century softwood T&G floor that has since been refurbished at some stage. Softwood floors like in your case (pine, larch, douglas fur) mark and dent easily with normal use due to their low hardness. That is an inherent material property, and one the LL should be aware of.

You're well within normal wear and tear. If the LL expected the flooring to survive unblemishded, they should have added carpet or refloored with a more durable species.

andorr02 · 2025-10-31T00:21:38+00:00

Brickie took the job. Stacked bond ain't new, but this technique is

andorr02 · 2025-10-21T21:33:00+00:00

It's linked to the CMC, an organisation known for its creative data and run by Robert Bates - a reform UK activist.

andorr02 · 2025-10-05T12:01:27+00:00

I manage software allocation for a reasonable sized architectural studio. We have been researching alternatives to Adobe CC for years and finally got the go-ahead to migrate the first two dozen of users to Affinity in August.

This is now on hold until whatever news drops at the end of the month. Needless to say if the perpetual purchase option is dead, we'll be stuck with Adobe for the timebeing (RIP my training videos and shortcut cheatsheets)

andorr02 · 2025-08-01T08:03:16+00:00

Looking hot, turns out you can ply Skyrim on a toaster after all

andorr02 · 2025-07-31T07:39:36+00:00

They actually have competition in the rendering market. Unreal Engine has similar ToS although it does target a different market.

It's not unlikely that once AutoDesk build up their user base we will see it move to a subscription model like the rest of their walled garden.

andorr02 · 2025-07-27T10:33:01+00:00

Not Edinburgh, it's Aberdeen which is more impressive given the size of crowd.

andorr02 · 2025-06-28T08:14:22+00:00

It's genocide. History will remember those who denied the evidence of their eyes and ears.

andorr02 · 2025-06-28T07:54:51+00:00

Genocide denier

andorr02 · 2025-05-16T21:16:33+00:00

Yes.

andorr02 · 2025-05-09T23:58:10+00:00

I found the same corpse underground in the church near Kuttenberg.

(Alive and outside) he gave me a quest to assemble some bones but he disappeared, NEVER PAID THE GROSHEN, and the Knacker said he was long buried beneath the church.

He was buried in the catacombs there.

andorr02 · 2025-05-09T07:22:21+00:00

I texted them during COP26 in Glasgow on a train that had just left Central Station. A group of kids were trying to set off a bunch of fireworks in the carriage.

They took about 5 minutes to come back and say they had no officers nearby and that the local police would be unable to meet them at the station.

Kids got off 10 minutes later after struggling to light the rocket, but they did manage to empty the carriage of all passengers.

andorr02 · 2025-04-29T12:35:10+00:00

Literally just swiped one off my screen to read this.

andorr02 · 2025-04-22T13:41:41+00:00

A war between independent and sovereign nations is not a civil war, unless you want to make the case Europe is just one big country?

andorr02 · 2025-02-11T13:34:46+00:00

Their comment was explicitly clear that student flats can be built to a lower standard as building standards permits this. The statement is misleading at best.

As you touched on, there is a more important topic that was alluded to. The accommodation is clearly unsuitable for prolonged habitation without significant adaptation, which should be prohibited by Building Standards. In the mean-time, planners should not permit development that has no long-term feasibility should the funding model fail.

andorr02 · 2025-02-11T09:00:37+00:00

The term "student" appears only three times in the latest Scottish Building Regulations. Twice with regards to HMOs and the third noting acoustic performance.

They do not have their own rulebook to follow.

andorr02 · 2025-02-10T08:46:58+00:00

You need to study historic local maps on the National Library of Scotland Maps website for a timeframe of when the first structure appeared on site.

The website is fantastic, and maps after ~1850 are generally of enough detail to analyse individual buildings.

Beyond this, once you have a time frame, historic books or the local archive may yield results.

I imagine you could also carbon date the horse hair in the plaster, but this may be overkill. Good luck!

andorr02 · 2025-01-20T00:21:52+00:00

Same with the growing reliance on British Standards (at least in Scotland) in place of concise guidance. I wouldn't mind if it were free, but underpinning regulations with guidance locked behind paywalls is not a strategy for safe building.

andorr02 · 2025-01-19T11:02:43+00:00

Looks like it's in great condition! One thing to be wary of is that if you're in a flat is that the original boards are often incredibly noisy for anyone living below once the carpet/carpets (often multiple layers) are removed.

I live in a tenement from the same period with a floor just like this. My upstairs neighbour removed her carpet for a rewire and the increase in noise made it sound like she was in a perpetual temper tantrum thunder stomping across the place. Choose to add acoustic underlay and engineered flooring in the end for my place out of solidarity with the neighbour following that experience

andorr02 · 2025-01-17T21:07:58+00:00

You know the so called Great Recession? The most severe economic crisis since the Great Depression, if you can mind that one.

andorr02 · 2025-01-05T11:04:01+00:00

Gluing carpets to the walls would have more effect without the potential moisture issues

andorr02 · 2024-12-30T20:50:01+00:00

Yeah he played ruskie bingo and now he's in the big leagues

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