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.
Papillon is a permanent installation. It is suspended from a concrete block wall that gives onto a substantial parking lot belonging to the new YMCA in the Montreal borough of Cartierville.
Nun’s Island’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.
Cultural Center in Verdun competition finalist proposal. 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.
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 Stewart Museum, Montreal, Quebec, Canada – design by Les architectes FABG: originally scheduled to serve as a warehouse for ammunition and artillery, the arsenal of Fort Saint Helena Island was built between 1820 and 1824.
The new building of Théâtre la Licorne like the theater company that runs it, La Manufacture, has a strong bond with its surrounding area.
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA), which celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2010, has a new 59,000-gsf. Claire and Marc Bourgie Pavilion of Quebec and Canadian Art and Concert Hall.
Michel Brisson Store – Montreal boutique: The building’s interior was thus stripped to its original brutalist structure, which revealed itself to be surprisingly striking.
The project site is situated between the existing Émile Legault School and Raymond Bourque Arena, both of which are horizontal in form and neutral in character.
Spa Nordique, Nuns Island building, Montreal, Canada – design by Chevalier Morales architectes – Spa Nordique Montreal: Strøm, shores of Lac des Battures
L’Assomption College is a private High school founded in 1884 in a small town near Montreal. This college, that hosts 1250 students, has become the heart of the social, cultural and sportive life of the Lanaudière region.
Théâtre de Quat’sous was established in 1963 by a group of actors under the direction of Paul Buissonneau. Together they bought a synagogue located on Avenue des Pins in Montréal and transformed it into a small theater
In Québec, a clearing in the woods or the shore of a lake, for example, are places where many of us have come to appreciate the heavens in their infinite grandeur, aglow with countless stars.
Habitat 67 was showered with praise from the day it was created. Specialists and the uninitiated alike were won over by its original, bold design, which showcased construction techniques unheard of at the time.
MUHC Glen Campus by Moshe Safdie and Associates: architect Moshe Safdie returns to the city of his alma mater to draw the master plan for the McGill University Health Centre’s Glen Campus.
