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Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

Moshe Safdie (Canadian architect, born 1938)
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Alternative Titles
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal
Jean-Noël Desmarais Pavilion
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/122647
Date
1989-1991
Description
Skylight covered circulation corridor between the south (right) and north (left) blocks, view looking up; The museum is housed in two buildings: the 1912 Michal and Renata Hornstein Pavilion, a marble-encrusted building in the classical style designed by the architects Edward and William S. Maxwell and the modernist Jean-Noël Desmarais Pavilion across the street, designed by Moshe Safdie, built in 1991. The building stands on the south side of Sherbrooke Street, facing the one built in 1912. Safdie wanted to give the new entrance to the Montreal museum a monumental appearance that would match that of the Maxwell brothers' neoclassical portico but at the same time signal a radically different concept of the museum. The 1912 portico frames a set of heavy oak and bronze doors that stand as a bulwark protecting treasures contained in a temple to art. Safdie's great arch in white marble, on the other hand, opens onto an entrance-hall flooded in light from a huge glazed roof. Source: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; http://www.mmfa.qc.ca/ (accessed 11/23/2007)
Type of Work
art museum
Subject
architectural exteriors, contemporary (1960 to present), Art museums, Postmodern
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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