Lesson 16- Sky City

Question 1

the mayor Jean Drapeau wanted:

Answer 1

to create a new, modern city, with sky scrapers, and get rid of the slum, with a subway and ready for expo 67

Question 2

in the late 19th century, what happened?

Answer 2

the big economic center for downtown moved from old montreal to the downtown we know today

Question 3

CPR did a big move for hotels in montreal:

Answer 3

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

Question 4

what is under the Dominion square (today Dorchester square)?

Answer 4

the former St Antoine cemetery

Question 5

why is the Dominion square (today Dorchester square) important?

Answer 5

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

Question 6

sky scraper that is different from others in mtl:

Answer 6

IBM-Marathon, built by kohn pederson fox architect, built in 1993, it has curves, weird textures, not a cube like usual, postmodern building

Question 7

CIBC building info:

Answer 7

P. Dickinson architect, 1959

Question 8

Dominion square building info:

Answer 8

Ross and MacDonald architects, 1928

Question 9

Sun Life building info:

Answer 9

Darling and Pearson architects, 1914-23-29

Question 10

Mariott hotel (chateau champlain)

Answer 10

Roger d’Astous and Pothier, 1963-67

Question 11

Cathedrale Marie-Reine du Monde info:

Answer 11

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!

Question 12

there was a very big ____ when Cm bought those this those lots, so they decided to build:

Answer 12

ditch, a big hotel

Question 13

what is a building that broke all the rules of the time?

Answer 13

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

Question 14

CIL building, today is called _____, architect and year?

Answer 14

TELUS, Skidmore, Oweings and Merrill (SOM!!!), 1952-62– biggest architectural firm in the world

Question 15

best example of international style in montreal building:

Answer 15

CIL building (Telus)

Question 16

Stock exchange tower info:

Answer 16

best skycraper in mtl, tapered edges, Moretti and Nervi, inspired by Italian, 1962-65

Question 17

Eaton’s store, architect and year?

Answer 17

Ross and MacDonald, 1925-27

Question 18

Chirst Church Cathedral National Historic Site of Canada info:

Answer 18

gothic revival building, wills and scott architects, 1857-59

Question 19

Morgans store now is called? and info

Answer 19

La Baie, John Pearce Hill architect, 1890

Question 20

Simpsons store (now is called?) and info

Answer 20

simons, chapman and oxley architects, 1929

Question 21

Royal George apartments are now part of? and info

Answer 21

Concordia University LB building, 1912, building well ahead of its time (tower for apartments)

Question 22

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts info

Answer 22

Horstein Pavillion, william and edward maxwell architects, 1912

Desmaras Pavillion, Moshe Safdie architect, 1991

Bourgie Pavillion, provencer and roy architects, 2011

Question 23

Le port royal

Answer 23

apartment building, tallest in canada at the time, Ian Martin architect, 1961-66

Question 24

Hall building, Concordia University

Answer 24

Ross, Fish, Duchesnes and Barrett architects, it was built as part of the Sir George William university (YMCA education program), 1966