Lesson 16- Sky City Flashcards
the mayor Jean Drapeau wanted:
to create a new, modern city, with sky scrapers, and get rid of the slum, with a subway and ready for expo 67
in the late 19th century, what happened?
the big economic center for downtown moved from old montreal to the downtown we know today
CPR did a big move for hotels in montreal:
hired Roger d’Astou to design new CP hotel for expo 67, 1st skyscraper built by montreal architect, Chateau Champlain is the name of the hotel, mixture of styles
what is under the Dominion square (today Dorchester square)?
the former St Antoine cemetery
why is the Dominion square (today Dorchester square) important?
cause it is the highest concentration of Montreal monuments: for example John A Macdonald monument, george e wade
wilfrid laurier monument, emile brunet
queen victoria jubilee (copy of lion of belfort by bartholdi), by george w hill — the lion is the only copy
sky scraper that is different from others in mtl:
IBM-Marathon, built by kohn pederson fox architect, built in 1993, it has curves, weird textures, not a cube like usual, postmodern building
CIBC building info:
P. Dickinson architect, 1959
Dominion square building info:
Ross and MacDonald architects, 1928
Sun Life building info:
Darling and Pearson architects, 1914-23-29
Mariott hotel (chateau champlain)
Roger d’Astous and Pothier, 1963-67
Cathedrale Marie-Reine du Monde info:
was destroyed in great fire of 52, architect Victor Bourgeau and Joseph Michaud, 1870, 1878, after a study trip to St Peter in Rome (was supposed to be a mini version of this)– took A LOT OF TIME to make it, over 30 years, italian renaissance style!
there was a very big ____ when Cm bought those this those lots, so they decided to build:
ditch, a big hotel
what is a building that broke all the rules of the time?
the cruciform building, 4 skyscrapers linked in the center, clad with aluminium, Place Ville-Marie (1st underground shopping center of Mtl) by Pei and Associates, 1957-66
CIL building, today is called _____, architect and year?
TELUS, Skidmore, Oweings and Merrill (SOM!!!), 1952-62– biggest architectural firm in the world
best example of international style in montreal building:
CIL building (Telus)
Stock exchange tower info:
best skycraper in mtl, tapered edges, Moretti and Nervi, inspired by Italian, 1962-65
Eaton’s store, architect and year?
Ross and MacDonald, 1925-27
Chirst Church Cathedral National Historic Site of Canada info:
gothic revival building, wills and scott architects, 1857-59
Morgans store now is called? and info
La Baie, John Pearce Hill architect, 1890
Simpsons store (now is called?) and info
simons, chapman and oxley architects, 1929
Royal George apartments are now part of? and info
Concordia University LB building, 1912, building well ahead of its time (tower for apartments)
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts info
Horstein Pavillion, william and edward maxwell architects, 1912
Desmaras Pavillion, Moshe Safdie architect, 1991
Bourgie Pavillion, provencer and roy architects, 2011
Le port royal
apartment building, tallest in canada at the time, Ian Martin architect, 1961-66
Hall building, Concordia University
Ross, Fish, Duchesnes and Barrett architects, it was built as part of the Sir George William university (YMCA education program), 1966
