beaux-arts

• The province says the money will go towards projects that have already been announced, including the enlargement of the Universite Laval's sports pavilion in Quebec City, two major highway upgrades and renovation work to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the construction of the new Quartier de Spectacle entertainment complex in Montreal and renovations to the Musee national des beaux-arts in Quebec City. —  Macleans.ca
• Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, 1379 and 1380 Sherbrooke St. W., —  TimesArgus.com: Sports
• QUEBEC CITY Les Fermières Obsédées performance 7: 30pm Musée national des beaux-arts de Québec 1 ave Wolfe-Montcalm —  Canadian Art - Online
• Perhaps because of this, sometimes during the day I find my mind wandering towards dreams of cinematic espionage: I might be at a red light with two whining kids in carseats behind me and I'll close my eyes and picture myself driving up to some beaux-arts hotel on the French Riviera, leaving a clean Aston Martin with the valet and subsisting for weeks on nothing but cocktail olives and the smell of expensive perfume. —  sweet juniper!
• It forms a piece with a sequence of buildings between 1938 and 1968 where Lubetkin and Tecton gradually abandon the international style: but not for the hard, elegant, New Brutalism that would later seduce Lasdun, but rather for a patterned Modernist baroque of almost beaux-arts planning, and surrealistically distorted features - from caryatids to organic canted balconies, to murals to puzzle-like facades, and most famously, wild Constructivist staircases that both exhilarate and intimidate. —  sit down man, you're a bloody tragedy

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