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GMP Architekten set to “reinvent” roof of Roger Taillibert’s Olympic Stadium in Montreal

August 30, 2024 Ellen Eberhardt 0

German architecture studio GMP Architekten has been selected to design a replacement for the roof of Roger Taillibert’s “controversial” Olympic stadium in Montreal for the studio’s first North American project. The ageing Olympic Stadium was designed by French architect Roger Taillibert for the 1976 Montreal Summer Games and features a now-iconic angled tower that suspends

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Pelletier de Fontenay creates “permeable” boundary for Quebec school

August 21, 2024 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Local architecture studios Pelletier de Fontenay and Leclerc Architects have created a Quebec primary school organised around an open courtyard to create a “permeable” boundary with nature. Located outside of Montreal in Shefford, École du Zénith is composed of a chain of five one-storey volumes or “pavilions” that wrap around a central open space recess

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Pelletier de Fontenay creates “permeable” boundary for Quebec school

August 21, 2024 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Local architecture studios Pelletier de Fontenay and Leclerc Architects have created a Quebec primary school organised around an open courtyard to create a “permeable” boundary with nature. Located outside of Montreal in Shefford, École du Zénith is composed of a chain of five one-storey volumes or “pavilions” that wrap around a central open space recess

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Atelier l’Abri embraces “expressive potential of construction” with Montreal shed

July 24, 2024 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Local architecture studio Atelier l’Abri has created a shed at a Montreal farmhouse with a galvanized steel and hemlock timber structure. Named Melba Pavilion, the 45-square-metre structure was designed as a workspace and storage for the surrounding Maison Melba property, which includes a residence, studio, workshop and greenhouse dedicated to sustainable agriculture. Located between the property’s greenhouse

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Atelier l’Abri embraces “expressive potential of construction” with Montreal shed

July 24, 2024 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Local architecture studio Atelier l’Abri has created a shed at a Montreal farmhouse with a galvanized steel and hemlock timber structure. Named Melba Pavilion, the 45-square-metre structure was designed as a workspace and storage for the surrounding Maison Melba property, which includes a residence, studio, workshop and greenhouse dedicated to sustainable agriculture. Located between the property’s greenhouse

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“Mad Men meets Apple store” at Ménard Dworkind’s revamp of IM Pei tower interior

June 26, 2024 Kate Mazade 0

Local studio Ménard Dworkind has retrofitted a 1960s building designed by IM Pei with an office interior for a tech company in Montreal. The 3,330-square foot (310-square metres) space houses the offices of TEC Energy inside IM Pei’s 47-storey Place Ville Marie tower, a cruciform skyscraper completed in 1962 as headquarters for the Royal Bank

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Ædifica presents “vision of densification” for Cité Angus II housing block in Montreal

April 5, 2024 Ben Dreith 0

Local architecture studio Ædifica has created a residential apartment building outside Montreal with an interior courtyard and a metal-mesh second skin on the facade. Called Cité Angus II, the structure is part of Technopôle Angus, an urban revitalization project that its developers say is a “full-scale sustainable development”. It will put multi-storey residential and businesses

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Ivy Studio installs colourful marble in Montreal’s Hayat restaurant

February 25, 2024 Dan Howarth 0

Montreal-based Ivy Studio has chosen a variety of dramatic marble to outfit a Middle Eastern restaurant, which features a colour palette influenced by “the earthy tones of the Syrian deserts”. In Montreal’s Old Port neighbourhood, the 1,500-square-foot (140-square metre) Hayat restaurant is designed to reflect the cuisine served by chef Joseph Awad. “This Middle Eastern

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Provencher Roy designs tower with dramatic cantilever for Montreal quay restoration

January 11, 2024 Ben Dreith 0

Local architecture studio Provencher Roy has included the “lighthouse”-like Port of Montreal Tower with cantilevered platforms in the renovation of a disused industrial pier in Montreal. Provencher Roy placed the 65-metre-tall tower on the edge of a pier in Montreal’s Old City that once served as a grain exporting hub for the region. It now

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Lemay redesigns open-air theatre in Montreal’s La Fontaine Park

December 1, 2023 Jenna McKnight 0

Local architecture studio Lemay aimed to rethink the relationship between “the built and the natural” in its revamp of Théâtre de Verdure, which consists of a stage on an island and a fan-shaped seating area. The open-air theatre is located within La Fontaine Park, which encompasses 34 hectares in Montreal’s Le-Plateau-Mont-Royal neighbourhood. The Théâtre de

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