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Montreal Architecture Tours
Quebec Architecture Guides – Exclusive Building Walks in Canada tailor made for Groups
post updated 18 May 2020
Montreal Architecture Walking Tours
Contact e-architect for your walking guide in Quebec: isabelle(at)e-architect.com
Montreal Architecture Tour: Exclusive Guided Walks
Our Montreal guided tours are all tailored to suit each booking, we do not allow for bookings to be joined. Our guided tours in Quebec are all exclusive to each client.
Should you be planning an office trip, a conference, or university trip in Quebec please contact us and we would be happy to take your booking.
Montreal Architecture Introduction
Montreal is located in Quebec, in the south east of Canada. The city is the largest in the province, the second-largest in the Canada, after Toronto.
Rio Tinto Alcan Planetarium Montreal Building design by Cardin Ramirez Julien + Ædifica:
photograph : Stéphane Brügger
Key architecture in Quebec is located in the city – namely Habitat 67, Biosphere, Bibliotheque National du Québec – all important pieces of modern and contemporary architecture. Of these probably most celebrated architecturally is Habitat 67, which appears in many histories of Modern Architecture.
The key recent buildings are the Claire and Marc Bourgie Pavilion, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Stewart Museum and the Palais des Congrés in Place Jean-Paul Riopelle. All these buildings can be visited on our Montreal Architecture Tours.
Musée d’art de Joliette, Québec, design by Les architectes FABG:
photograph : Stéphane Brügger
Famous architects with buildings in Montreal include Moshe Safdie ; Saucier + Perrotte Architectes ; Les architectes FABG ; Provencher Roy + Associés architects ; Les architectes Tétrault, Dubuc, Saia et associés ; Hal Ingberg architecte and HCM Architects.
Habitat 67 buildings:
photo © Timothy Hursley
Montreal Walking Tours
Montreal Architectural Tours can focus on traditional Quebec buildings, contemporary buildings or both. e-architect can provide information on building types and geographical areas ahead of your tour. For example a group interested in Montreal office buildings could be provided with information ahead of their visit to Quebec.
photo © Tom Arban
Visitors can be met from their hotel or at the starting point of their Quebec walking tour.
Key recent architectural designs:
Drummondville Library, Centre-du-Québec
Architects: Chevalier Morales
photo : Adrien Williams
Drummondville Public Library in Quebec
Desjardins Offices, Montréal Tower, 4141, avenue Pierre-De Coubertin, Montréal
Interior Design: Provencher_Roy
photo : Stéphane Brügger
Desjardins Offices in Montréal Tower
Montreal Walking Tour Guides
Contact Isabelle Lomholt to arrange your Quebec architecture tour on mob. +44 (0)7952 149814 / isabelle(at)e-architect.com
Architecture Tours
Other than Montreal, e-architect organise Architecture Walking Tours in other North American cities such as Vancouver, New York and in the state of Alaska.
Other cities include Copenhagen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, London and Mexico City.
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Major Montreal Buildings
Habitat 67
Date built: 1967
Design: Moshe Safdie, Architect
Habitat 67
Mies van der Rohe Gas Station, Nun’s Island
Design: Les architectes FABG
Nun’s Island Gas Station – Renovation
Stewart Museum
Design: Les architectes FABG
Stewart Museum Montréal
Claire and Marc Bourgie Pavilion, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Design: Provencher Roy + Associés architects
Claire and Marc Bourgie Pavilion
Montreal Architecture Studios : design firm listings on e-architect – Quebec architecture practice contact details
McGill University Schulich School of Music
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