World Trade Centre Montreal
Provencher Roy + associés architectes; Arcop Associates
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Alternative Title
Centre de Commerce mondial de Montréal
Date
1988-1992Description
Also the firm Becker, Gersovitz, Moss. This complex of office buildings, completed in 1992, incorporates the façades and other elements of several heritage structures, including the remarkable Nordheimer Building (1888). Inside, the offices look onto a vast (10-storey) atrium and shopping promenade built along the former Ruelle des Fortifications. Other attractions include a fragment of the Berlin Wall and a black granite reflecting pool with a fountain statue--a work by French architect and sculptor Dieudonné-Barthélemy Guibal (1699-1757) that originally topped a fountain in Saint-Mihiel, in the Meuse department of France.; Also the firm Becker, Gersovitz, Moss. This complex of office buildings, completed in 1992, incorporates the façades and other elements of several heritage structures, including the remarkable Nordheimer Building (1888). Inside, the offices look onto a vast (10-storey) atrium and shopping promenade built along the former Ruelle des Fortifications. Other attractions include a fragment of the Berlin Wall and a black granite reflecting pool with a fountain statue--a work by French architect and sculptor Dieudonné-Barthélemy Guibal (1699-1757) that originally topped a fountain in Saint-Mihiel, in the Meuse department of France. Source: Old Montréal; Vieux-Montréal [website]; http://www.vieux.montreal.qc.ca/ (accessed 6/21/2009)
Type of Work
mixed-use development; office building; shopping arcadeSubject
architectural exteriors, business, commerce and trade, cityscapes, contemporary (1960 to present), Restoration and conservation, urban renewal, architectural re-use, Twentieth century
Rights
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