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2 Nov 2017
De la Roche Residence, Rosemont-La-Petite-Patrie
Design: naturehumaine architecture et design
Rosemont-La-Petite-Patrie Residence
photo : Adrien Williams
De la Roche Residence
A couple with two young children wish to transform a duplex located in Rosemont-La-Petite-Patrie into their principal family residence. The project consists in reorganizing the original portion of the house and enlarging it with an extension in the yard while preserving the façade on the street as required by the city bylaws.

5 Oct 2017
Complexe sportif de Saint-Laurent, Montréal, Saint-Laurent
Design: Saucier + Perrotte / Hughes Condon Marler Architects
Complexe sportif de Saint-Laurent, Montréal
photo : Olivier Blouin
Complexe sportif de Saint-Laurent Montréal
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.

5 Aug 2016
CHUM Building, Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal, 1000 Rue Saint-Denis
Design: CANNONDESIGN + NEUF architect(e)s
CHUM Montréal Building
image from architect
CHUM Hospital Montréal Building

22 Jun 2016
Claire and Marc Bourgie Pavilion of Quebec and Canadian Art
Design: Provencher_Roy
Claire and Marc Bourgie Pavilion of Quebec and Canadian Art in Montreal
images courtesy Tom Arban, Alexi Hobbs, Marc Cramer, Jean-Guy Lambert
Claire and Marc Bourgie Pavilion of Quebec and Canadian Art in Montreal
Beside the restored former Erskine and American Church, transformed into a 444-seat concert hall, the rear annex has been completely reconstructed in contemporary style to form the new art pavilion.

5 Nov 2013
La Vitrine Culturelle, St-Catherine / St-Laurent, Quartier des spectacles
Design: Moment Factory
La Vitrine culturelle Montreal
photograph from Moment Factory
Among the many features specially created for the 2#22 is “Urban Clock”, a capsule of sixty seconds that synchronizes all the visual components of the building every hour. The other atmospheric features are composed of various graphical effects that play with trompe l’oeil and optical illusion.

12 Sep 2013
Connaught Residence
Design: NatureHumaine
Connaught Residence Montréal
photo : Adrien Williams
The changing needs of a growing family triggered the complete reconfiguration and extension of their existing 1950 concrete house. They wanted a contemporary extension that would harmonize with the modern spirit of the original house.

12 Aug 2013
Stacked House, Rue St-Christophe, Montréal
Design: NatureHumaine
St-Christophe Residence
photo : Adrien Williams
House on Rue St-Christophe
This project was done in collaboration with the client who wished to build his own home. The site is located in a back alley of Montréal’s Plateau neighborhood and the design reflects the patchwork of extensions and renovations typically found in Plateau alleyways.

13 Jun 2013
Chambord Residence, Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec
Design: NatureHumaine
Chambord Residence Quebec
photo : Adrien Williams
Chambord Residence
The client wanted to utilize the second storey of her 1920s duplex by converting her former rental unit into 3 bedrooms and an office space. While the grey-stone front facade only required minor restorations, the back of the house was transformed completely.

4 Jun 2013
Fifth Pavilion Competition
Design: Saucier + Perrotte Architectes
Fifth Pavilion Competition Montréal
render : Saucier+Perrotte
Fifth Pavilion Competition Montreal
Just as layers of history accumulate through time to offer varying perspectives on culture and environment, Saucier + Perrotte’s design for the Fifth Pavilion of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is composed of a series of mineral strata that form a home for the Hornstein collection of art.

28 May 2013
Montreal Luxury Hotel
Design: Lemay
Hotel Building Montreal
image by architects
Montreal Luxury Hotel
A new luxury hotel building on the Mount Stephen Club site located on 1440 Drummond Street in Montreal. Tidan Group owner of this impressive heritage 12-storey building has started the construction of an 80-room hotel at the heart of downtown.

27 May 2013
La Couleuvre
Design: NatureHumaine
Montreal Flat Extension
photo : Adrien Williams
Montreal Flat Extension
Nicknamed “la couleuvre” (the garden snake). The parents’ quarters are located in the ground floor brick volume, while the kid’s bedrooms are pushed up into the twisting volume upstairs. A bright orange handrail leads you up into the kids’ zone.

11 Jan 2013
Cahier d’Exercices Montréal, Québec, Canada
Design: Saucier + Perrotte
Cahier d’Exercices Building
photo : Marc Cramer
Cahier d’Exercices Montréal
Cahier d’Exercices is located at the entrance level of the historic Ross warehouse-store. 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.

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21 Feb 2012
Mies van der Rohe Gas Station, Nun’s Island
Les architectes FABG
Mies van der Rohe gas station on Nuns Island, Montreal
photograph : Steve Montpetit
Mies van der Rohe Gas Station
Nun’s Island is part of the Hochelaga archipelago located immediately southwest of Montreal. It’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.

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14 Feb 2012 : contest entry
Verdun Cultural Center, Montréal – design
Saucier + Perrotte
Verdun Cultural Center Montréal
image from architects
Verdun Cultural Center Montréal
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. The design takes advantage of the bucolic character of the surroundings by creating an architectural work whose unique presence is felt strongly throughout the landscape.

8 Feb 2012
Centre de Diffusion Culture
Centre de Diffusion Culture Montreal
image from architects
Les architectes FABG Montréal
Les Architectes FABG is the winning firm in the architecture competition for the project to set up a new cultural venue, including a professional theatre, which will be built starting in September 2012, a few metres away from the St. Lawrence River in the Verdun Borough.

5 Feb 2012
Centre de soccer intérieur au CESM, Montréal
Saucier + Perrotte / HCM Architects
Centre de soccer intérieur au CESM
image : Saucier + Perrotte
Centre de soccer intérieur au CESM
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 mineral stratum is articulated by a continuous roof which cantilevers over the entry plaza and folds down over the interior soccer field.

30 Jan 2012
Stewart Museum
Les architectes FABG
Stewart Museum Building
image from architects
Montréal Museum Building
Originally scheduled to serve as a warehouse for ammunition and artillery, the arsenal of Fort Saint Helena Island was built between 1820 and 1824. It was converted into a military museum in 1956, now the David M. Stewart Museum. The Stewart Museum presents with a large collection of over 30,000 objects and artifacts in the history of New France and the European influence in North America.

Théâtre la Licorne, 4559 avenue Papineau, central Montréal
Design: Les architectes FABG
Théâtre la Licorne
photo : Steve Montpetit
Montréal Théâtre Building
The new building of Théâtre la Licorne like the theater company that runs it, La Manufacture, has a strong bond with its surrounding area. It tends to communicate with the city and reflects the type of theater that it produces: straightforward and urban. Aesthetic choices made during the design phase also reflects the idea of “manufacture”: Simplicity of form and the use of raw materials: glass, metal, concrete, brick.

Palais des Congrés, Place Jean-Paul Riopelle
Date built: 2003
Realisation: Les architectes Tétrault, Dubuc, Saia et associés
Hal Ingberg architecte (Independent architectural consultant and co-designer)
Montreal building
picture : Hal Ingberg
Palais des Congrés Montreal

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Major Montreal Architecture Projects, alphabetical:

Claire and Marc Bourgie Pavilion

Provencher Roy + Associés architects
Claire and Marc Bourgie Pavilion
picture © Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Claire and Marc Bourgie Pavilion

Habitat 67
1967
Moshe Safdie, Architect
Habitat 67
photo © Timothy Hursley
Habitat 67

L’Assomption College – Sports Complex Building, near Montréal
2010
Les architectes FABG
L'Assomption College
photo: Steve Montpetit
L’Assomption College

McGill University Schulich School of Music – New Music Building
2005
Saucier + Perrotte
New Music Building
photograph : Marc Cramer
McGill University Schulich School of Music

Michel Brisson, 1074 Laurier West

Saucier + Perrotte Architectes
Michel Brisson Montréal
image : Saucier + Perrotte
Michel Brisson Montréal

Montréal Rio Tinto Alcan Planetarium
2009-
C. R. Julien – Ædifica_Architecture + Design
Montréal Planetarium
image from architect
Montréal Planetarium

Saint-Laurent Sports Complex

Saucier + Perrotte / Hughes Condon Marler
Saint-Laurent Sports Complex
image : Saucier + Perrotte
Saint-Laurent Sports Complex

Spa Nordique, Nun’s Island

Chevalier Morales architectes
Spa Nordique Montréal
photo © Marc Cramer
Spa Nordique Montréal

Théâtre de Quat’sous Building
2010
Les architectes FABG
Montreal Theatre Building
image from architect
Théâtre de Quat’sous Montréal

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Major Montreal Architecture Projects, alphabetical:

Bibliothèque Nationale de Québec competition
2005
Patkau Architects

Centre CDP Capital, Place Jean-Paul Riopelle

Gauthier, Daoust Lestage Inc, Faucher Aubertin Brodeur Gauthier, with Architectes Lemay et Associés

Expo ’67 master plan + Habitat ’67 Housing
1967
Moshe Safdie

First Nations Garden Pavilion, Montreal Botanical Gardens
2004
Saucier + Perrotte Architectes, Montreal

Hendrie Gateway Pavilion, Royal Botanical Gardens Ontario
2007-
Diamond + Schmitt Architects
£3m

McGill University Health Centre Glen Campus
2006-
Moshe Safdie and Associates

Montreal Expo Building
1967
Rolf Gutbrod, engineering by Frei Otto

Robson Square

Arthur Erickson

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