Montreal Buildings : Québec Architectural News

22 Jun 2016
Claire and Marc Bourgie Pavilion of Quebec and Canadian Art
Design: Provencher_Roy

images courtesy Tom Arban, Alexi Hobbs, Marc Cramer, Jean-Guy Lambert
Claire and Marc Bourgie Pavilion of Quebec and Canadian Art in Montreal
Beside the restored former Erskine and American Church, transformed into a 444-seat concert hall, the rear annex has been completely reconstructed in contemporary style to form the new art pavilion.

5 Nov 2013
La Vitrine Culturelle, St-Catherine / St-Laurent, Quartier des spectacles
Design: Moment Factory

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Among the many features specially created for the 2#22 is “Urban Clock”, a capsule of sixty seconds that synchronizes all the visual components of the building every hour. The other atmospheric features are composed of various graphical effects that play with trompe l’oeil and optical illusion.

12 Sep 2013
Connaught Residence
Design: NatureHumaine

photo : Adrien Williams
The changing needs of a growing family triggered the complete reconfiguration and extension of their existing 1950 concrete house. They wanted a contemporary extension that would harmonize with the modern spirit of the original house.

12 Aug 2013
Stacked House, Rue St-Christophe, Montréal
Design: NatureHumaine

photo : Adrien Williams
House on Rue St-Christophe
This project was done in collaboration with the client who wished to build his own home. The site is located in a back alley of Montréal’s Plateau neighborhood and the design reflects the patchwork of extensions and renovations typically found in Plateau alleyways.

13 Jun 2013
Chambord Residence, Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec
Design: NatureHumaine

photo : Adrien Williams
Chambord Residence
The client wanted to utilize the second storey of her 1920s duplex by converting her former rental unit into 3 bedrooms and an office space. While the grey-stone front facade only required minor restorations, the back of the house was transformed completely.

4 Jun 2013
Fifth Pavilion Competition
Design: Saucier + Perrotte Architectes

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Fifth Pavilion Competition Montreal
Just as layers of history accumulate through time to offer varying perspectives on culture and environment, Saucier + Perrotte’s design for the Fifth Pavilion of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is composed of a series of mineral strata that form a home for the Hornstein collection of art.

28 May 2013
Montreal Luxury Hotel
Design: Lemay

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Montreal Luxury Hotel
A new luxury hotel building on the Mount Stephen Club site located on 1440 Drummond Street in Montreal. Tidan Group owner of this impressive heritage 12-storey building has started the construction of an 80-room hotel at the heart of downtown.

27 May 2013
La Couleuvre
Design: NatureHumaine

photo : Adrien Williams
Montreal Flat Extension –
Nicknamed “la couleuvre” (the garden snake). The parents’ quarters are located in the ground floor brick volume, while the kid’s bedrooms are pushed up into the twisting volume upstairs. A bright orange handrail leads you up into the kids’ zone.

11 Jan 2013
Cahier d’Exercices Montréal, Québec, Canada
Design: Saucier + Perrotte

photo : Marc Cramer
Cahier d’Exercices Montréal –
Cahier d’Exercices is located at the entrance level of the historic Ross warehouse-store. The stone façade, its cast iron columns, and an expansive brick wall (punctuated with pieces of wood and metal) that runs the length of the store recall the 19th Century building’s industrial past as a retailer of large tissues, leathers and furs.

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21 Feb 2012
Mies van der Rohe Gas Station, Nun’s Island
Les architectes FABG

photograph : Steve Montpetit
Mies van der Rohe Gas Station –
Nun’s Island is part of the Hochelaga archipelago located immediately southwest of Montreal. It’s urbanization followed the opening of the Champlain bridge in 1962 under an ambitious master plan carried out by Metropolitan Structures, a real estate giant who had built numerous projects in Chicago with the collaboration of Mies van der Rohe.

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14 Feb 2012 : contest entry
Verdun Cultural Center, Montréal – design
Saucier + Perrotte

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Verdun Cultural Center Montréal
Located in a large forested park along the edge of the St-Lawrence River, the project offers the City of Verdun a center dedicated to the performing arts. The design takes advantage of the bucolic character of the surroundings by creating an architectural work whose unique presence is felt strongly throughout the landscape.

8 Feb 2012
Centre de Diffusion Culture

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Les architectes FABG Montréal
Les Architectes FABG is the winning firm in the architecture competition for the project to set up a new cultural venue, including a professional theatre, which will be built starting in September 2012, a few metres away from the St. Lawrence River in the Verdun Borough.

5 Feb 2012
Centre de soccer intérieur au CESM, Montréal
Saucier + Perrotte / HCM Architects

image : Saucier + Perrotte
Centre de soccer intérieur au CESM
On the site of the former Miron quarry and a future Ecological Park, the new Centre de Soccer intérieur emerges from the park’s artificial topography as a layer of mineral stratum recalling the geological nature of the site. The mineral stratum is articulated by a continuous roof which cantilevers over the entry plaza and folds down over the interior soccer field.

30 Jan 2012
Stewart Museum
Les architectes FABG

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Montréal Museum Building
Originally scheduled to serve as a warehouse for ammunition and artillery, the arsenal of Fort Saint Helena Island was built between 1820 and 1824. It was converted into a military museum in 1956, now the David M. Stewart Museum. The Stewart Museum presents with a large collection of over 30,000 objects and artifacts in the history of New France and the European influence in North America.

Théâtre la Licorne, 4559 avenue Papineau, central Montréal
Design: Les architectes FABG

photo : Steve Montpetit
Montréal Théâtre Building
The new building of Théâtre la Licorne like the theater company that runs it, La Manufacture, has a strong bond with its surrounding area. It tends to communicate with the city and reflects the type of theater that it produces: straightforward and urban. Aesthetic choices made during the design phase also reflects the idea of “manufacture”: Simplicity of form and the use of raw materials: glass, metal, concrete, brick.

Palais des Congrés, Place Jean-Paul Riopelle
Date built: 2003
Realisation: Les architectes Tétrault, Dubuc, Saia et associés
Hal Ingberg architecte (Independent architectural consultant and co-designer)

picture : Hal Ingberg
Palais des Congrés Montreal