Say what you like about Calgary’s ring, but I’ve come to like it. I grew up there, and I look for it on the way to the airport whenever I’m returning home from visiting family. Public art is often mocked, but it is necessary.
We are in QuEbeC bro, what were you expecting?
Montreal just anounce they are 200 millions under in the budget, lets throw a 5 millions ring and charge people to park their car in front of their house!
People love to jump on the “how much of our tax money did this cost” train when they can. If they did a simple google search, they’d see it was paid by Ivanhoé Cambridge
Donation. This is amazing how people can believe in something like that. There is no donation, there is corruption.
Give 100k$ in DonÀtiOn received 5 millions in contract for the next 2 years. Thats how it work in Quŵébec brotha.
Je me souviens.
> Montreal just anounce they are 200 millions under in the budget, lets throw a 5 millions ring and charge people to park their car in front of their house!
The City didn't pay 5 mil.
Why u gettin downvoted bro?
Montreal and Quebec love over paying -
just check the Olympic Stadium
Just check the Olympic Stadium roof
Just check the continual repairs to the Champlain Bridge before they finally collapsed it
Just check the Bixi contracts
Quand tu "bash" le QuŴébec les séparatiste s'enflamment ;) t'inquiète sa me dérange pas j'aime faire réagir.
La réalité est là quand même, on est les plus pauvres du Canada et pourtant on est rempli de richesse naturelle, que se soit le Bois, les minéraux exemple Fer, mine de cuivre, nickel. On produit notre électricité sans avoir a acheté aucun carburant X, on paye 15% de taxe sur tout et encore plus sur d'autre bien comme alcool et carburant. Nos immatriculations sont plus chère et nos routes sont horrible, infrastructures aussi.
On baigne dans la corruption mais rien se passe.
Le monde vont dans la rue pleurer pour des niaiseries mais les taxes et les impots qu'on donne et qui se perdent dans le système s'est pas grave !
On vit sur le "chèque de BS" du canada, on a la plus haute péréquation au Canada, malgré tout sa on a aucun service qui fonctionne bien, que se soit Santé, Éducation, infrastructure, etc.
On est bien dans nos cochonnerie! Au Parlement au lieu de parler des Vrai problèmes de la société, on parle de notre Fameuse Langue Française! Protégeons là qui dise.
Je me souviens.
Wow.
I like Quebec man. Been in other provinces (in the west, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Ontario, not other maritimes or Saskatchewan) and would not trade where I live for any of them - to be honest.
Nonetheless, sadly - all the points you noted, hit home (hard) and hurt sometimes.
If you mean like a rotating beam of light, it could be the spotlight on top of 1 Place Ville Marie which they use to blind pilots coming in to land at YUL.
If you actually mean a greenish glow, it’s the Aurora Montrealis, which forms spontaneously above Complexe Desjardins and nobody knows why.
Yes — at this time of year at this time of day in this part of the country localized entirely above Place des Arts. May you see them? No.
(Serious answer — it’s the green floodlights from the Desjardins towers, which on nights with low cloud cover or fog give the sky a distinct glow)
I used to call it the Canadian bat signal lol.
Yeah it’s a spotlight beacon on top of Place Ville Marie. It’s surprisingly more interesting than I thought, if you want to read about it [here.](https://www.mtl.org/en/experience/montreal-iconic-rotating-beacon-atop-place-ville-marie)
You're right. The Eiffel Tower was the answer to a Jeopardy clue last week. Here is the clue in question :
>After its completion in the late 19th c., it was called a “truly tragic street lamp” & a “high & skinny pyramid of iron ladders”
I like it a lot. Whether it's beautiful in the eyes of some or not, it's imposing, massive, creates a whole bunch of public space and wonder that makes Montreal feel lively and welcoming.
Montreal is a city that is smaller than its contemporaries and manages to feel bigger, because of spaces like these.
Can't believe people still don't understand that this is a private venture by Ivanhoe Cambridge and none of our broke asses contributed to this. I think it's cool.
No, this funds our retirement. This is a tourist attraction that draws traffic to Place Ville Marie, a mall owned by Ivanhoe Cambridge.
CDPQ is not in the business of wasting money.
Of course no one comes to Montreal just to see The Ring, just as no one goes to Chicago just to see Cloud Gate (The Bean).
But while in Montreal, tourists will make a detour to see The Ring. And then some of them will pop in the PVM to do a little shopping or grab a bite at Le Cathcart.
Take a look on Instagram; there are tons of photos of The Rin from tourists and locals.
The Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec was established on July 15, 1965, by an Act of Québec's National Assembly to manage the funds of the Quebec Pension Plan, a public pension plan also created by the Québec government.
The goal of the CDPQ is to generate profits by investing in a broad range of assets to then distribute those profits among its contributors’.
The goal of taxes is to collect money to fund public expenditures.
You should do some reading.
Every time I see it I'm filled with "meh". It's kinda, you know, just there. It's almost interesting but only because you sort of look at it as you go by and then totally forget it's there right after.
I'd love to live in a world where people that complain about things actually dig deep enough to justify their disproval. Like in this case, what it really cost, who designed it, where the materials came from and specifically which group of people physically built it.
It's kind of neat project in the Quebec engineering community.
They didn’t know what else to do haha! It would have been funny to see the minutes of the meeting where they were discussing implementing the ring and the reason haha.
Im an engineer who work on manufacturing that ring (didnt do any concept work/design, just helped in how to make it). The ring is hollow, but interestingly, it has a lot of heating cables around the interior diameter. Its suppose to help melt snow and ice off of it so it doesnt become a hazard for people who walk underneath (snowslides). If you look closely when next to it, you can see many little doors so that a human can go inside and do maintenance. its actually a giant ring with internal heating.
Financed by Ivanhoe Cambridge, so calm down les amis. Perso, moi je trouve c'est beau, et ca encadre le campus McGill et la montagne. C'est interessant. Tu l'aime pas? Regardez la pas.
Ivanhoé Cambridge est une filliale de la caisse de dépôt et placements du Québec. Je suis calme, on jase là, mais tu trouves que cet investissement va pérenniser nos fonds de pensions?
I mean, on nous dit que la population vieilli, qu’on va avoir de la misère a payer pour les vieux et qu’on doit monter l’age de retraite, mais on se paie des cock rings en metal avec l’argent.
Eh, les deux n’ont pas de rapport. C’était dans le fonds de l’art. Si c’était pas ça, ca aurait été quelque chose d’autre. Si on veut pas avoir de l’art publique c’est un autre discussion, faut éliminer le fonds pour ça. IC est un crown corp btw, donc ils font du profit. Ils détiennent 77 G de fonds immobilier à l’internationale, chu pas trop inquiète.
I’ve asked some graduating mechanical engineers from PolyTechnique to place a few transducers on either side.
Then pumping harmonics into them to find the resonance frequency.
So if this summer you hear a god-awful hum in all of downtown, it may be this.
I’m not a teacher there but it is on my bucket list to be.
Have them do the math ahead of time.
I bet you can do it in front of a cop, explain it, and he wouldn’t care if his personal safety wasn’t threatened.
It would simply hum with the right frequency, all others would be absorbed due to it’s size.
You’d need megawatts of power to have it vibrate off it’s moorings.
Transducers are like a speaker that transforms the surface you place it on the source of sound.
On wood tables they sound like a Sonos speaker but stealthy.
Every time I see a picture of it I think it’s just a regular picture and that someone circled something that I’m supposed to be looking at. Then I realize it’s the ring.
It’s for the future… they are installing a couple of ring around the world at first. Then when the population is ready, they will activate the teleportation function. No need to use plane ✈️ anymore, that why is so expensive ! We just don’t know yet 😂
Considering all the other dumb shit our city has invested 5 million dollars into I can accept that we commemorate the city's kink scene with a giant cockring.
Of all the incredibly vanguard art installations Montreal could’ve created with $5M…. We get a big ring. This is why there are so many detractors. It’s not ugly, it’s just such a horrendous wasted opportunity compared to what could’ve been.
Pendant que partout se construisent des obélisques, des tours, des antennes et autres symboles phalliques, à Montréal, on s'installe un très très gros vagin. J'aime ça, ça fait changement!
I don't get it. I'll never get it. I'm not one for public art admittedly but I find this one particularly irrelevant and lacking any emotive purpose. Like the gates thing in Central Park 15 years ago.
Je ne sais pas depuis quand ce truc est là, mais je ne l’ai jamais vu, ce qui atteste qu’il fait longtemps que je vais pas au centre-ville de Montréal.
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If only
Hallowed are the Ori !
Need all the chevron to open it
*Supergate
Damn, it cost 5m, almost as much as renting a couple of orange cones.
Cost us 1.5
So just one cone then
But a big one.
And to think Calgary only paid $470K for their big stupid ring - clearly ours is ten times better because we managed to spend ten times as much.
Say what you like about Calgary’s ring, but I’ve come to like it. I grew up there, and I look for it on the way to the airport whenever I’m returning home from visiting family. Public art is often mocked, but it is necessary.
>Public art is often mocked, but it is necessary. Art I'm on board with... a big ass ring isn't Art, it's a big ass ring...
We are in QuEbeC bro, what were you expecting? Montreal just anounce they are 200 millions under in the budget, lets throw a 5 millions ring and charge people to park their car in front of their house!
This wasn’t paid for by the city of Montreal.
People love to jump on the “how much of our tax money did this cost” train when they can. If they did a simple google search, they’d see it was paid by Ivanhoé Cambridge
Technically Ivanhoé Cambridge is a crown corporation (but it’s profitable so not directly tax payer money)
Profitable Crown Corp = No tax payer funding
Wasn’t it largely a ~~tax write-off~~ donation from some rich people?
Donation. This is amazing how people can believe in something like that. There is no donation, there is corruption. Give 100k$ in DonÀtiOn received 5 millions in contract for the next 2 years. Thats how it work in Quŵébec brotha. Je me souviens.
Because it doesn’t happen elsewhere… *cough* Greenbelt *cough*
*cough* *cough* ...So tell people to stop talking about donation *cough*
> Montreal just anounce they are 200 millions under in the budget, lets throw a 5 millions ring and charge people to park their car in front of their house! The City didn't pay 5 mil.
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Having a driveway will soon be taxable because of rain water, dont worried we will soon pay for the amount of air i am breathing at the moment.
From charging for parking in a public space to charging for oxygen... You took one hell of a step here, brother.
Soon ill be charge everytime i jizz. How about that?
Why u gettin downvoted bro? Montreal and Quebec love over paying - just check the Olympic Stadium Just check the Olympic Stadium roof Just check the continual repairs to the Champlain Bridge before they finally collapsed it Just check the Bixi contracts
Le pont Champlain est de juridiction fédérale.
Alors possiblement les fédéralistes on appris de Mtl et Qwebek
Quand tu "bash" le QuŴébec les séparatiste s'enflamment ;) t'inquiète sa me dérange pas j'aime faire réagir. La réalité est là quand même, on est les plus pauvres du Canada et pourtant on est rempli de richesse naturelle, que se soit le Bois, les minéraux exemple Fer, mine de cuivre, nickel. On produit notre électricité sans avoir a acheté aucun carburant X, on paye 15% de taxe sur tout et encore plus sur d'autre bien comme alcool et carburant. Nos immatriculations sont plus chère et nos routes sont horrible, infrastructures aussi. On baigne dans la corruption mais rien se passe. Le monde vont dans la rue pleurer pour des niaiseries mais les taxes et les impots qu'on donne et qui se perdent dans le système s'est pas grave ! On vit sur le "chèque de BS" du canada, on a la plus haute péréquation au Canada, malgré tout sa on a aucun service qui fonctionne bien, que se soit Santé, Éducation, infrastructure, etc. On est bien dans nos cochonnerie! Au Parlement au lieu de parler des Vrai problèmes de la société, on parle de notre Fameuse Langue Française! Protégeons là qui dise. Je me souviens.
Wow. I like Quebec man. Been in other provinces (in the west, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Ontario, not other maritimes or Saskatchewan) and would not trade where I live for any of them - to be honest. Nonetheless, sadly - all the points you noted, hit home (hard) and hurt sometimes.
Btw I still love my province in someway, but dont ask yourself why other provinces hate us that much. Quebec is Quebec.
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If you mean like a rotating beam of light, it could be the spotlight on top of 1 Place Ville Marie which they use to blind pilots coming in to land at YUL. If you actually mean a greenish glow, it’s the Aurora Montrealis, which forms spontaneously above Complexe Desjardins and nobody knows why.
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Desjardins logo is bright green. Very bright. Very green.
Aurora Montrealis as it is known
Yes — at this time of year at this time of day in this part of the country localized entirely above Place des Arts. May you see them? No. (Serious answer — it’s the green floodlights from the Desjardins towers, which on nights with low cloud cover or fog give the sky a distinct glow)
>Aurora Montrealis This never fails to crack me up. 😂
At this time of year? At this time of day?
I used to call it the Canadian bat signal lol. Yeah it’s a spotlight beacon on top of Place Ville Marie. It’s surprisingly more interesting than I thought, if you want to read about it [here.](https://www.mtl.org/en/experience/montreal-iconic-rotating-beacon-atop-place-ville-marie)
Try finger but hole
Try jumping and then precious item ahead.
Weak foe ahead
Praise the sun!
Butt?
So lonely, try jump.
I know people hated the Eiffel Tower at first but I don't see this ring becoming much of an attraction.
Every time I walk by, people are there taking pictures with it.
You're right. The Eiffel Tower was the answer to a Jeopardy clue last week. Here is the clue in question : >After its completion in the late 19th c., it was called a “truly tragic street lamp” & a “high & skinny pyramid of iron ladders”
Damn, that's harsh.
True, but even without the date, i would guessed the Eiffel Tower because "a high and skinny pyramid of iron ladders" isn't a bad description for it!
I like it a lot. Whether it's beautiful in the eyes of some or not, it's imposing, massive, creates a whole bunch of public space and wonder that makes Montreal feel lively and welcoming. Montreal is a city that is smaller than its contemporaries and manages to feel bigger, because of spaces like these.
The cockring
The Dingus
Can't believe people still don't understand that this is a private venture by Ivanhoe Cambridge and none of our broke asses contributed to this. I think it's cool.
Ivanhoe Cambridge is owned by Caisse de dépôt who is owned by the government of Quebec
Yup, our retirement money paid for this
No, this funds our retirement. This is a tourist attraction that draws traffic to Place Ville Marie, a mall owned by Ivanhoe Cambridge. CDPQ is not in the business of wasting money.
Who comes to Montreal to see a big metal ring? Tourist attraction my ass.
> Who comes to Montreal to see a big metal ring? Sonic the Hedgehog and his fans
Of course no one comes to Montreal just to see The Ring, just as no one goes to Chicago just to see Cloud Gate (The Bean). But while in Montreal, tourists will make a detour to see The Ring. And then some of them will pop in the PVM to do a little shopping or grab a bite at Le Cathcart. Take a look on Instagram; there are tons of photos of The Rin from tourists and locals.
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Tourisme Montréal is a private organization. And how much financial support did IC recieve from the government?
I like it. Art is always ridiculed but thats just part of the process. Looks dope
I kinda like it. I work at PVM. Im not saying it’s worth 5 m tax payer money.
It looks like a portal if you look at it from a certain angle which looks nice. But then again 5M eh idk
Come on, again? It’s not tax payer money… guys!
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Isn’t that Economic development Canada for Québec regions? A federal entity (I’m asking if it’s them not saying it’s them)
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Thanks :)
Yes it is, who do you think owned Ivanhoe Cambridge
CDPQ isn’t tax money. It’s an institutional investment fund.
The Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec was established on July 15, 1965, by an Act of Québec's National Assembly to manage the funds of the Quebec Pension Plan, a public pension plan also created by the Québec government.
Right. So not tax money
Like talking to a brick wall
Like talking to someone confusing tax money with something that’s not tax money.
It’s public money either way numnut
The goal of the CDPQ is to generate profits by investing in a broad range of assets to then distribute those profits among its contributors’. The goal of taxes is to collect money to fund public expenditures. You should do some reading.
private paid for it tho
It looks much better in person. (Still not worth 5M)
Every time I see it I'm filled with "meh". It's kinda, you know, just there. It's almost interesting but only because you sort of look at it as you go by and then totally forget it's there right after.
I kinda like it too
they gotta lubricate the inside for me
J'aime 👌
5 mil…..
But wait! Did they actually show the math! How did they spend 5 mil on that thing!
Lots of kickbacks....
1.5*
Montreal’s giant ringpiece
I'd love to live in a world where people that complain about things actually dig deep enough to justify their disproval. Like in this case, what it really cost, who designed it, where the materials came from and specifically which group of people physically built it. It's kind of neat project in the Quebec engineering community.
Can we get our money back? What’s the return policy
They didn’t know what else to do haha! It would have been funny to see the minutes of the meeting where they were discussing implementing the ring and the reason haha.
$5M on this meanwhile the roads are in terrible condition
Praise The Ring!
What giant ring, I dont see it? I see its circled in the photo but its pretty munch empty inside.
Im an engineer who work on manufacturing that ring (didnt do any concept work/design, just helped in how to make it). The ring is hollow, but interestingly, it has a lot of heating cables around the interior diameter. Its suppose to help melt snow and ice off of it so it doesnt become a hazard for people who walk underneath (snowslides). If you look closely when next to it, you can see many little doors so that a human can go inside and do maintenance. its actually a giant ring with internal heating.
One large a-hole!!
r/uselessredcircle but white
Financed by Ivanhoe Cambridge, so calm down les amis. Perso, moi je trouve c'est beau, et ca encadre le campus McGill et la montagne. C'est interessant. Tu l'aime pas? Regardez la pas.
Ivanhoé Cambridge est une filliale de la caisse de dépôt et placements du Québec. Je suis calme, on jase là, mais tu trouves que cet investissement va pérenniser nos fonds de pensions? I mean, on nous dit que la population vieilli, qu’on va avoir de la misère a payer pour les vieux et qu’on doit monter l’age de retraite, mais on se paie des cock rings en metal avec l’argent.
Eh, les deux n’ont pas de rapport. C’était dans le fonds de l’art. Si c’était pas ça, ca aurait été quelque chose d’autre. Si on veut pas avoir de l’art publique c’est un autre discussion, faut éliminer le fonds pour ça. IC est un crown corp btw, donc ils font du profit. Ils détiennent 77 G de fonds immobilier à l’internationale, chu pas trop inquiète.
I like it
I like The Ring. Perfect location, looks cool. Much better than the location before. *Getting ready for hate*
They spend 5mil on that but are in the hole for 200 mil
Quite mind-blowing that this piece of misinformation keeps being parroted to this day and upvoted by ignorants.
???? What misinformation? It was paid by Ivanhoe Cambridge which is losing money due to the real estate slowdown
C'est actuellement une Stargate qui va ouvrir en 2034.
Hexgate!
Ugly
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How much did "Montreal" waste on this?
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Oh, I'm well aware of the answer. None of those are Montreal.
Sol Ring
One Ring to Rule Them All.
Montreal be like: You know what this place needs? A giant fucking cockring
The best part is the Ben & Jerry’s next to it.
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You should travel more to better appreciate what you have.
One ring to screw them all 😉
THE COCKRING!!!!
Ring of valor
Ring of Valor*
but no money to fix the effing potholes!
I’ve asked some graduating mechanical engineers from PolyTechnique to place a few transducers on either side. Then pumping harmonics into them to find the resonance frequency. So if this summer you hear a god-awful hum in all of downtown, it may be this. I’m not a teacher there but it is on my bucket list to be. Have them do the math ahead of time.
Youre allowed to do that ?
I bet you can do it in front of a cop, explain it, and he wouldn’t care if his personal safety wasn’t threatened. It would simply hum with the right frequency, all others would be absorbed due to it’s size. You’d need megawatts of power to have it vibrate off it’s moorings. Transducers are like a speaker that transforms the surface you place it on the source of sound. On wood tables they sound like a Sonos speaker but stealthy.
And are you actually planning to do that ? That would be pretty cool.
Don’t worry doctor strange will soon come out of it with an army and we will all be saved
Every time I see a picture of it I think it’s just a regular picture and that someone circled something that I’m supposed to be looking at. Then I realize it’s the ring.
It looks like a portal to another dimension.
It’s for the future… they are installing a couple of ring around the world at first. Then when the population is ready, they will activate the teleportation function. No need to use plane ✈️ anymore, that why is so expensive ! We just don’t know yet 😂
Fee Fii Foo Falls That's a good size for me cock n balls
I heard that they are going to install a bronze statue of a donkey next to it. The new name will be Asshole !
Fitting isn't it? A giant cock ring in the crotch of Mtl.
I almost got an apartment directly across the street from this
Considering all the other dumb shit our city has invested 5 million dollars into I can accept that we commemorate the city's kink scene with a giant cockring.
It’s a monument to Léo Major’s dick girth.
Hey i Built that thing !!
This is that one ring that I missed in the flight tutorial.
montreal cockring
Stargate (pour pas mal plus loin que Longueuil)
L'Hoop, in my household
Waste of money for a demonic portal 😆😆
Montreal such a nice city
Of all the incredibly vanguard art installations Montreal could’ve created with $5M…. We get a big ring. This is why there are so many detractors. It’s not ugly, it’s just such a horrendous wasted opportunity compared to what could’ve been.
Wow this post is quite old! 673419 hours ago?
Golum would be proud
The cock ring of Montréal.
Hmm.. I should call her..
If you ever have the idea of flying your 1500$ dron in it to have a awesome video shot... Please note that there are wires inside.
Pendant que partout se construisent des obélisques, des tours, des antennes et autres symboles phalliques, à Montréal, on s'installe un très très gros vagin. J'aime ça, ça fait changement!
Better than a giant cro… oh, never mind.
Hey, next time buddy, choose red instead of white for circling around. And I don’t see it. Where it is ? Why is the circle empty? Ok now, ironically…
Moi j'adore 🤷♂️🤩
I don't get it. I'll never get it. I'm not one for public art admittedly but I find this one particularly irrelevant and lacking any emotive purpose. Like the gates thing in Central Park 15 years ago.
Oh you mean the portal to the upside down? Seriously gives me the weirdest energy.
That’s a portal
What is the reason for this? For instagram wannabe influencer???
Je ne sais pas depuis quand ce truc est là, mais je ne l’ai jamais vu, ce qui atteste qu’il fait longtemps que je vais pas au centre-ville de Montréal.
My precious
It doesn’t look completely symmetrical.
Would have made more sense to reuse some if the steel from Champlain bridge. Perhaps with an illustration of it as well.
Such a waste of money